30% Of British Scientists Believe Gender Is Not Binary, Two Thirds Say Its Fluid Per New Poll

The following report is by The Telegraph (excerpts):

A survey of almost 200 scientists at British universities, conducted by The Telegraph and Censuswide, found 58 per cent of respondents think sex is binary, except in rare cases such as intersex individuals.

Less than a third (29 percent) agreed with the statement “sex is not binary”, while one in eight people (13 percent) had no views or preferred not to answer.

However, almost two thirds of scientists (64 percent) said gender was fluid, while 22 percent said gender is binary, and 14 percent gave no answer.

Dr Wolfgang Goymann, professor for behavioural biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, told The Telegraph:

To me this just means that at least 29 percent of the academics that filled out this questionnaire do not understand the biological concept of sex, and at least 22 percent of them do not know what gender means.

Leading science journals have been adopting this relativist view, thereby opposing fundamental biological facts.

While we fully endorse efforts to create a more inclusive environment for gender-diverse people, this does not require denying biological sex.

On the contrary, the rejection of biological sex seems to be based on a lack of knowledge about evolution and it champions species chauvinism, inasmuch as it imposes human identity notions on millions of other species.

Dr Goymann recently published an article in the journal BioEssays, where he said some scientists are arguing that sex is a graded spectrum rather than a binary trait.

The survey touched on a range of topics that are divisive in the scientific community such as the origin of Covid, the Government’s pandemic modelling and gain-of-function research, as well as the gender/sex debate.

Only UK lecturers were invited to fill in the form and more than half were educated to PhD level or higher. The faculty of social sciences accounted for 18 percent of the participants, 13 percent were medicine and 12 percent were life sciences.

The survey results come as the Government is launching a review of sex and gender data in research, which spans the entirety of the public sector but will also have scope to “consider research institutions” outside the public sector, including universities…