Transgenderism Philosophy Deconstructed by Nobel Prize Winner By Mrs Abigail Knight (Florida)
This is getting a little in the stale news category, but is still relevant, since the main stream media did not report on it. Biologist and Nobel Prize winner Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard gave what she believes is a scientific refutation of the transgender agenda. There are two sexes, biologically defined, “There’s the one sex that produces the eggs, has two X chromosomes. That’s called female,” she said. “And there’s the other one that makes the sperm, has an X and a Y chromosome. That’s called male.” People cannot change their gender, which is biologically defined, merely surgically and hormonally mask it.
What about intersexuals, people with both male and female parts? True, they exist, but are statistically rare rare. However, this does not show that the general category of male/female fails, since the intersexual characteristics are defined using the male/female categories in the first place. The mere existence of intermediate colours on a spectrum, does not prove that primary colours do not exist. Micro-organisms that have qualities of plants and animals do not show that there are no plants or animals.
“Biologist and Nobel Prize winner made headlines this week when she asserted basic biological reality in opposition to the claims of radical transgender ideologues.
In an exclusive interview in German language feminist magazine EMMA, German developmental biologist and Nobel laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard explained that the basic biological principles regarding sexuality disprove transgenderism.
“[A]ll mammals have two sexes, and man is a mammal,” said Nüsslein-Volhard, who won the 1995 Nobel prize in Physiology and Medicine for her research in early embryonic development.
“There’s the one sex that produces the eggs, has two X chromosomes. That’s called female,” she said. “And there’s the other one that makes the sperm, has an X and a Y chromosome. That’s called male.”
Asked whether people can change their gender, the Nobel laureate was unequivocal.
“That’s nonsense! It’s wishful thinking,” she said. “There are people who want to change their gender, but they can’t do it … People retain their gender for life.”
Nüsslein-Volhard also warned of the dangers of prescribing hormones to help people look more like the opposite sex.
“The body cannot handle it well in the long run,” she said. “Every hormone you take has side effects. Taking hormones is inherently dangerous.”
Responding to recent claims by Sven Lehmann, the German federal government’s “queer commissioner” who reportedly argued it’s “unscientific” to affirm there are only two genders, Nüsslein-Volhard argued that it’s the transgender view espoused by Lehmann that’s “unscientific.”
“This is unscientific! Perhaps Herr Lehmann missed the basic course in biology,” she joked.
The German government had appointed Lehmann as its first “commissioner for queer affairs” in June. Last year, the government began pushing for legislation to allow children as young as 14 to change their legal gender without parental consent.
Nüsslein-Volhard told EMMA that allowing children to “change their gender” is “madness,” noting that she, like “many girls,” had been “unhappy in puberty.” According to the professor, young girls should be supported in their actual identities rather than encouraged to become like men.
While observing that gender-confused people “should not be discriminated against,” and that it’s “bad” when “people are treated badly,” Nüsslein-Volhard nonetheless argued that people who believe they can change their gender “cannot impose their ideas on everyone as facts.”
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