Category Failure (Review of Leonard Sax, Part 3)
An overall useful book, somewhat crippled by a departure from the explanation of gender found in the Bible.
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When Sex Differences Should Count
Highlighting sex differences is good. And it is also bad. I have tried to learn when they should count. Because enumerating sex differences can help and hurt.
The Amazing SRY Gene: The Male On-Off Switch
The waterfall of information pouring forth from the mapping of the human genome continues to supply wondrous insight into our selves. One of these watershed discoveries came when the British researcher, Peter Goodfellow, identified the SRY gene as the male on-off switch (Nature 348 (1990): 448–50). When we say that a person’s sex, male or female, is in the …
Why You Should Believe Gender is Real if You Are a Christian
Nearly all Christians have a firm belief that humanity is made up of male and female, based on what they read in Genesis 1:27. “…male and female [God] created them.” But what about the concept of gender? Here they are fuzzy. Masculinity and Femininity are hard to define, and passing through Western schools is liable to convince you that these …