More change came in 2001, when a landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report emphasized the important role that “sex” played in the basic biology that underpins health care. It concluded that “every cell has a
sex.”
Plays merry hell with some of the trans claims, doesn’t it?
Sex in the cells? They are hoping to be sent to a women’s prison.
Since when has any scientific conclusion that goes against the demands of the mentally ill been any kind of barrier?
Science is only useful insofaras it furthers the narrative and provides jobs for the politically correct.
“Assigned at birth”
or Determined at conception.
Okay, so I actually learned something today.
I was under the impression that most of the body cells reproduced asexually by cell division, but apparently that ain’t always the case and there is also an intermediate stage which roughly equates to sex. It’s a bit of a stretch, but I kinda get what the original article is saying.
@JG
Meiosis is how reproductive cells (sperm and ova) are created, AFAIK no other bodily cell types undergo this process. I haven’t read the article, as it’s in SciAm (to which I no longer have a subscription), and is therefore almost certainly either wrong or extremely woke.
Ah. Now that makes perfect sense. I vaguely recollect that from my Human Biology O-Level back in the 80’s. Thanks for that one @Chris
Given the state of political biology nowadays, I suspect it’s both wrong AND woke.