Ben Shapiro vs Neil deGrasse Tyson: The WAR Over Transgender Issues

[Belacqua]

Debate among working scientists or university-level science professors seems more likely to be worthwhile.

Yeah, isn't it a shame that somebody like the APA didn't get this figured out a decade ago.  

Absolutely, a lot of people will accept the decision of a professional group like this. 

Others don't, of course.

Sex assignment

In 2024, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and physicist Alan Sokal co-authored an op-ed in The Boston Globe criticizing the use of the terminology "sex assigned at birth" instead of "sex" by the APA, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dawkins and Sokal argued that sex is an "objective biological reality" that "is determined at conception and is then observed at birth," rather than assigned by a medical professional. Calling this "social constructionism gone amok," Dawkins and Sokal argued that "distort[ing] the scientific facts in the service of a social cause" risks undermining trust in medical institutions.[54]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_P...ssociation

So there are some high-profile people still beating the horse. The debate comes down to how we decide what's true -- and there are those who are strict about what they consider to qualify as science. Since a lot of atheists, at least those on line, tend to rely on science-type explanations for what they hold to be true, this is a debate that many atheists will be interested in following.