Science says there’s only two genders
January 8, 2019
In the past couple of years a topic that has gained an overwhelming amount of attention in the media is whether or not there are more than two genders. Based upon scientific truths and a moral standpoint, I believe there are no more than two, but I also respect the contrasting opinion of others.
Men and women are born with 46 chromosomes. The first 22 are the same in men and women. These are called autosomes. The 23rd pair of chromosomes is what determines sex, these differ between men and women. The 23rd pair for men is XY, while for women it is XX. The argument that there are more than two genders is based upon a birth defect. For men it is called Klinefelter Syndrome. According to Genetics Home Reference this is a pretty common defect (1 out of 500 male children born) which occurs when a man’s sex chromosome count is XXY. Women have a similar defect with their 23rd chromosome pair. This defect is far less common to occur (1 out 20,000 female children born) according to Medlineplus . It is called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) which means a woman’s sex chromosome is XY. Both of these defects affect both genders. According to Emory Health Science, these defects have lasting impacts on the reproductive system, not allowing either men or women to have offspring.
Whether or not you are born with one of those defects, men and women produce different hormones. Men produce testosterone, while women produce estrogen, progesterone, and a small amount of testosterone. For a man or a woman to become “transgender” and for their bodies to produce the opposite sex’s hormones, they must choose to undergo hormone therapy.
Men will be injected with exogenous estrogen which will give men feminine characteristics. They will also be injected with anti-androgens which suppresses testosterone to give them less masculine features. Women will be injected with exogenous testosterone to give women more of a masculine look and to suppress feminine characteristics.
Your body does not do this naturally.
It is a choice to undergo hormone therapy. Whether or not you go through this process these hormones are just giving you characteristics of the opposite sex. They do not change your biological makeup therefore do not change your sex
Even though science backs the claim that there are only two genders, it is still your right as a American, protected by the First Amendment, to identify as whatever you please. However, it is also anyone’s First Amendment right not to agree with or recognize that there are more than two genders. But, some do not feel that you have this right.
In 2015, New York City’s Commission on Human Rights released new guidelines stating that if an individual uses the wrong preferred gender pronoun for another person they could face fines up to $250,000. California as of February 2018 has adopted the same regulations.
This is absolutely absurd.
In reality they are being fined for hurting someone’s feelings. Rules and regulations like this go against what the First Amendment is suppose to protect.
As Americans, we live in the freest country, and anyone deserves the right to express themselves; whether you are for or against this claim, both opinions warrant a voice and both deserve the right of free speech and freedom of expression.
Liza • May 5, 2021 at 6:30 pm
You just described sex. Biological sex (what genitalia you have) and your gender identity/ expression are two different things.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/cadehildreth.com/gender-spectrum/amp/
S • May 4, 2021 at 10:27 am
There are only two real genders. The rest are only illnesses, as being queer can be caused by society or birth defects, similar to depression. And depression is also classified as an illness. Being intersex is also only a birth defect. The apparent “gender” you identify yourself as is just a mental illness affecting your natural reproduction system.
aster • Apr 28, 2021 at 1:08 pm
gender is different from birth sex, if you inject yourself with hormones it wont change your sex but it’ll make you feel better in your own body. gender is based on social and mental differences and how you feel, sex is what you’re born as. transwomen take estrogen to feel more comfortable in their body because they were simply placed into the wrong one, same with transmen and nonbinary people (yes, they can take hrt).
Darius • Apr 28, 2021 at 10:06 am
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
When they translated that from the Greek whosoever believe it is not a one-time belief but it’s a Keep On Believing and trusting and relying on Jesus. It means to obey him and stay before him.
Whoever you are God loves you God loves you enough to give his son for you he gave himself
will you love him back and give yourself to him
You know that famous song in the 1970s “Oh Happy Day When Jesus washed my sins away”
I used to be addicted to pornography and masturbation but Jesus delivered me of my sins of fornication
Then the Lord delivered me from having unclean thoughts and sexual fantasies.
And the Lord wash me and cleansed me and gave me a brand new life and I tell other people about Jesus how he can cleanse you and wash you and give you a brand new life.
And now I have a wonderful future God preserved my youth and I’ll be getting married soon and I look forward to having a wonderful family
Ethan • Apr 26, 2021 at 4:33 pm
When I first found out about the NYC law that fines people for basically insulting someone, saying something they don’t like, I thought “Surely this a joke. No way a law that directly contradicts the US constitution actually made it in code somewhere.” But amazingly, it actually exists. And that’s a problem for EVERYONE.
Whether you agree with the biological existence of two genders (yes, it is correct two use “gender” and “sex” interchangeably) or not, the more serious issue is the direct attack on free speech. The first step in every single last oppressive government’s coming to power is to take away citizen’s freedom of speech. The ultimate goal is, of course, to control how people think. Which is impossible of course, so the next step is to oppress the people who don’t agree with their goverment’s opinions. And it’s all great when your opinion happens to coincide with oppressive laws like fining people for saying things you don’t like, but you give a government power to restrict freedom of speech, and it’s only a matter of time before it’s YOU they come after on some other issue.
If you don’t want your freedom to speak YOUR mind taken away, you MUST accept that other people are allowed to disagree with you and speak THEIR mind.
Michelle • Apr 24, 2021 at 5:10 pm
Until this recent far left rhetoric took hold, SEX AND GENDER were interchangeable. Just because man THINKS hes a woman and vice versa doesn’t make him a woman. I don’t care what someone “identifies” as. They’re either a man or a woman. UNLESS they’re one of the VERY RARE people born w the birth defect of the 23rd chromosome. They just want ANY excuse to call someone “blank phobic”. Just a bunch of leftist nonsense rhetoric that they use to villafy anyone that doesn’t agree. I’m sick of all of them! They want the world to “respect” their beliefs, but whose beliefs do THEY respect?? No one’s!
peppermint • Apr 23, 2021 at 8:35 am
Is one person going to say there’s only two genders and not always try to say that sex and gender are the same thing? Even if they were there are more then two sexes. Also calling someone the wrong pronouns can push them to FUCKING SUICIDE why do some of you still think it’s okay?
only2genderslmfaof • Apr 21, 2021 at 3:54 pm
ALL THE LIBRTARDS OUT THERE THERE ARE ONLY 2 GENDERS THATS WHY THERES ONLY 2 DIFFERENT TYPES OF BATHROOMS ONE FOR MALE AND FEMALE
only2genderslmao • Apr 14, 2021 at 12:50 pm
there are only 2 genders you small brained buffoons
HHrouse • Apr 13, 2021 at 8:20 pm
There are only two genders and there are many facts backing it up not just chromosomes, and hormones, body structures, energy consumption along with others prove there are 2 sexes and genders. What I hate is how now the culture says if you are proud of being a biological sex or gender you are a horrid person. If those want to change for themselves they get to live with it the rest of thier lives but don’t come forcing it down in school and everyone else’s children that don’t agree and those who are proud in there own skin and born that gender be scrutinized is also wrong. You and I both have first amendment rights to make someone pay a fine for something they don’t agree in your life decision is wrong.
yeah • Apr 1, 2021 at 1:48 pm
“Trumper” lmao
LGBTQIAP+ • Mar 16, 2021 at 10:35 pm
Fuck you there are so many more than 2 genders u trumper
Rylee Kresl • Mar 13, 2021 at 10:47 am
It’s such a disaster that pro trans people are pushing this agenda that there are more than 2 genders on children. It makes me sick. I was a tomboy and it scares me that someone could just ask me as a child if I felt like I was a boy or a girl, because I would have said boy….. very different outcome in life if I grew up nowadays.
ryn • Mar 11, 2021 at 9:19 am
buddy, i think you mixed up gender and sex. and yes, science says that there are more than 2 genders. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/ and other websites too. do your research.
lisa • Mar 6, 2021 at 7:14 pm
even if gender is different than sex that doesn’t mean they are two WHOLLY different things. they can be used interchangeably. that doesn’t mean more than two genders. the scientific community I have never heard accept the concept of more than two genders. if it is in someone’s mind they are something different that doesn’t make it real. facts don’t care about feelings. if you disagree with this concept of more than two genders you are attacked and called “phobic.” it does NOT make you phobic you are just disagreeing. and you have the right to. some of these people want you to tolerate them but feel they don’t have to tolerate you which doesn’t make sense.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA • Mar 4, 2021 at 4:25 pm
This is the truest thing i have ever heard in my life and i am happy i can share this with people who agree with me thank you
Osama bin ballen • Mar 4, 2021 at 11:43 am
if you think there are more than two genders, you are the reason people don’t want to be alive today
jp • Feb 25, 2021 at 11:01 pm
Saying that ” Refusing to acknowledge a trans person’s correct pronouns is one of the reasons mental illness runs rampant among trans people.”
is the most absurd, uneducated, idiotic statements that I’ve ever heard. Where did you go to medical school? You need brain surgery.
Tim L • Feb 25, 2021 at 7:51 pm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824932/
Boon • Feb 25, 2021 at 6:52 pm
This guy can’t even write a headline without grammatical errors (if you can’t find it, then that’s your problem). I wouldn’t listen to him about complex things like this.
DOm • Feb 25, 2021 at 10:38 am
If you were born with a penis you are a male. PERIOD.
If you were born with a vagina you are female. PERIOD.
ffff V2 • Feb 18, 2021 at 3:15 pm
there are only 2 genders, prove me wrong…..
ffff • Feb 16, 2021 at 5:24 pm
ONLY 2 GENDERS, THINK DIFFERENTLY AND UR WRONG! simple. XX and XY chromosomes. GG
noobs • Feb 10, 2021 at 3:35 pm
there are only 2 genders noobs
hhhhhhhhhhhh • Feb 10, 2021 at 3:31 pm
shut up, there are only 2 genders
JwJ • Feb 4, 2021 at 9:10 am
Only 2 genders and mutations…you dont get to choose if you have a mutation….
JwJ • Feb 4, 2021 at 9:08 am
That’s literally science and literally what all real scientists say
JwJ • Feb 4, 2021 at 9:07 am
Only 2 genders and mutations…you dont get to choose if you have a mutation or not…
Lllll • Jan 30, 2021 at 3:33 pm
Literally every single scientist disagrees with this. And I’m sure the scientist know more than a random guy. Litterally search the definition of gender gender is a social construct sex chromosomes. Even with sex you can be intersex based on your chromosomes and brain.
Ryan • Jan 20, 2021 at 4:08 am
Why are we bickering about gender and sex roles?
The world we live in is about to go through a catastrophic change within the next couple of years, and it’s for the worst. You people better prioritize better, before subjecting others to meaningless topics.
Ryan • Jan 20, 2021 at 3:58 am
On another note to previous comments: “ Church is the physical representation of the place you make it to be. In other words, your body is a church as well.”
Ryan • Jan 20, 2021 at 3:51 am
It makes me feel sorry for individuals that neglect the truth and try to find their own, selfish way in life.
Ryan • Jan 20, 2021 at 3:46 am
In my opinion, we need to return to the origin, and what it means to be male and female. We have skewered off into a path that lost its meaning. Why do we have so many “genders” (sexes) if there are only intended to be two?
I am a student currently studying biology. I do not conform to any religion or rituals. I conform to a just and righteous Creator.
Putting that aside, individuals of these different associations need to make peace if they want to see the light at the end of the day.
It is not my role to judge another. That is far beyond my knowledge and understanding.
You're wrong • Dec 12, 2020 at 2:20 pm
You’re using the term “gender”. If you’re going to refer to biology, then use the correct term- sex. I’m not going to be rude, but straightforward. Gender: Either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female.
“a condition that affects people of both genders”
(in languages such as Latin, Greek, Russian, and German) each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections that they have and require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex.
Sex: Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.
In other words, simply, gender is a social role and sex is biological.
And for biologically speaking, there are many gradations running from female to male; along that spectrum lie at least five sexes — perhaps even more. Medical investigators recognize the concept of the intersexual body. Fully know everything on a subject before giving an opinion, please.
nope • Dec 4, 2020 at 12:00 am
there are 2 genders lmaooooo
Aulani Johnson • Dec 2, 2020 at 10:36 pm
Nope. 2 genders. There is no way of scientifically proving otherwise based on one inarguable fact, that sex is a means of identifying one part of a two part equation that allows for reproduction.
Having ‘parts’ of reproductive system, as is the arguement with gonad expression is a mute point. If you cannot have a child together it is a non functional reproductive expression.
This is also what maintains are health and why inbreeding is bad – #inbreedingdepression.
It is my right not only by 5th Amendment but also by protections of religious freedom in workplace to not acknowledge more than two sexes.
I’m catholic and this is edict of church.
It’s a power struggle to get what they want. Freedom to create as many hostile situations to suit their individual tastes.
Sam • Oct 7, 2020 at 12:45 am
It’s odd how you haven’t brought up the high suicide rate in trans communities. Refusing to acknowledge a trans person’s correct pronouns is one of the reasons mental illness runs rampant among trans people. There have been lawsuits where, if you tell a person to commit suicide and they end up committing suicide, you can be prosecuted. I don’t think fining a person for contributing to a serious problem is as outlandish as you make it seem. Clearly, it’s more than simply “hurting someone’s feelings.” Additionally, science progresses and the concept that sex is different from gender has now been established as factual in the scientific community. Always stay up to date with science; referencing outdated information doesn’t help anyone.
Skylar Lord • Jan 15, 2019 at 10:35 am
I couldn’t agree more with you. Being fined for not pretending with another person which violates your own rights is crazy.