Invitation
Lively Debate Returns?
Wednesday, April 17th 2024, the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) Free Speech Alliance will host an Oxford Union-style debate on the following proposition:
“Resolved, that sex is biological and binary, and gender identity is no substitute for sex in social policy.” at 7pm ET.
“In the third debate at MIT co-hosted by the MIT Free Speech Alliance, Students for Open Inquiry, MIT's Adam Smith Society, and other organizations, two teams will debate the proposition, "Resolved that sex is biological and binary and gender identity is no substitute for sex in social policy."
Reprising her role as moderator of this Oxford Union-inspired debate is Nadine Strossen, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, New York Law School Professor Emerita, and Past President of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Affirmative Team will be Professors Alex Byrne, Professor of Philosophy at MIT and author of Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions, and Holly Lawford-Smith, Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and author of Gender-Critical Feminism. The Negative Team will be Dr. Alice Dreger, American historian and journalist, a Guggenheim Fellow, recipient of the Heterodox Academy’s Courage Award, and author of Galileo’s Middle Finger; and Aaron Kimberly, a trans man, mental health nurse, Director of Public Engagement with the LGBT Courage Coalition, and co-host of the Transparency podcast.
As with our previous debates, we expect this debate to model constructive dialogue and disagreement on a difficult and controversial issue, and we look forward to bringing this event to the MIT community.
This debate will be held in MIT's Wong Auditorium, and will additionally be livestreamed and later be available as a recoding at MFSA's YouTube channel.
For more information on the debate and our participants, and to register for a free ticket for the live event on campus, visit our debate page.
There are still tickets available if you would like to attend in person if you are in the Boston area. Otherwise mark your calendars to watch the livestream.
The thing is, even holding a debate over this topic is giving in to a bunch of uncredentialed or under-credentialed activists. It gives the impression that the reality of sex is debatable.
It isn't.
Speaking as a Biologist: THERE IS NO DEBATE THAT THERE ARE TWO (2) SEXES.
Every single human on earth is either female or male. Even the ones born "intersex" aka with Disorders/Differences of Sexual Development.
So enough of this embarrassing concession to mentally-ill narcissists and their captured zombie woke army.
Grow a spine, my fellow life scientists: the fundamental integrity of your profession and field are being attacked.
I am "a fan" of all four debaters--really interested! Will definitely watch the livestream.