Conference cancels panel on biological sex in human skeletons over transphobia fears: Commits a 'cardinal sin'
American Anthropological Association and The Canadian Anthropology Society canceled an event on the importance of studying biological sex so as not to offend the transgender community.
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FOX News Digital contacted the heads of the AAA and CASCA. The AAA released a comment to FOX which said, "There is no place for transphobia in anthropology."
It went on to claim that the science of biological sex was not settled and that sex was not binary.
"The session was rejected because it [was] framed in ways that do harm to vulnerable members of our community. It commits one of the cardinal sins of scholarship—it assumes the truth of the proposition that it sets out to prove, namely, that sex and gender are simplistically binary, and that this is a fact with meaningful implications for the discipline," the AAA told FOX News Digital.
It further said that anthropologists should not strive to identify sex conclusively and that such determinations were merely an "estimation."