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Anthropology Session on Importance of Biological Sex Canceled to Appease LGBT Advocates

The panel members criticized the cancellation as an ‘anti-science response to a politicized lobbying campaign.’
Anthropology Session on Importance of Biological Sex Canceled to Appease LGBT Advocates
Anthropological collections on display in Pod 4 (designed to house oversized objects) at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Support Center (MSC), located in Suitland, Maryland. The Smithsonian Institution's Museum Support Center, Maryland
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
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9/30/2023|Updated: 10/1/2023
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Major North American anthropology groups have canceled a discussion centered on the importance of biological sex in anthropology, claiming that the talk harmed people identifying as LGBT.

During a joint conference between the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) scheduled for November in Toronto, a session titled “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in Anthropology” was set to be hosted. The meeting (pdf) proposed that, while it has become “increasingly common” to substitute “sex” with “gender” in the field of anthropology, there are research domains in which biological sex is “irreplaceably relevant” to anthropological analysis.
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
Reporter
Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.
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