A group of professors slammed the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) for canceling a talk on biological sex and gender to “placate those offended by the panelists’ views.”
“We are deeply concerned by the cancellation of a previously approved panel … over vague and subjective concerns that the panelists’ views on biological sex would cause ‘harm,’” said the Sept. 29 letter published by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Last month, the AAA and CASCA canceled a session titled “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in Anthropology” scheduled for November. The panel focused on the importance of “sex” in the field of anthropology rather than “gender.”
