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16 Jun, 7 tweets, 2 min read
"There are infinite sexes, it's a spectrum": ☺️🏳️‍🌈♥️
"There are 6 sexes": ☺️🏳️‍🌈♥️
"There are 5 sexes": ☺️🏳️‍🌈♥️
"There are 4 sexes": ☺️🏳️‍🌈♥️
"There are 3 sexes": ☺️🏳️‍🌈♥️
"There are 2 sexes": 😱🤬😤🤮
"Sex is a spectrum." blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/visu…
"There are 6 sexes."

"There are 5 sexes."
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.…
"There are 4 sexes."
"There are 3 sexes."
press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/97…
"There is no such thing as biological sex."

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17 May
1/ I used to stutter badly until I was about 5, and then it suddenly vanished, mostly. But then every once in a while I would try to start speaking and simply could not get the first syllable of the first word out. If I tried to force it out, I would stutter.
2/ Once I got passed the first word, I could go on talking stutter-free! But that first word could be a real doozy. I solved that problem by either using a different word with a similar meaning that somehow didn't hang me up, or I'd start the sentence using some...
3/ go-to filler word like "yeah" or "well" before beginning my sentence if I got that weird feeling that a word wasn't going to come out.

Today I get that feeling very rarely, but it does still happen. I've just gotten so good at anticipating it and instantly swapping in a...
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12 May
The votes are in. The top 10 mentioned (in order) were:

1. Austin, TX
2. Miami, FL
3. Nashville, TN
4. Houston, TX
5. San Antonio, TX
6. Charleston, SC
7. New Orleans, LA
8. Chattanooga, TN
9. Las Vegas, NV
10. Salt Lake City, UT

I'll have to visit many of these this summer!
Overall, cities in Florida, Texas, and Tennessee were widely recommended. Thanks for the suggestions!
Honorable mentions:

Charlotte, NC
Tampa, FL
Greensville, SC
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4 May
The "Marketplace of Ideas" doesn't state that free expression will always result in goodness and truth. It's just that the alternatives are more dangerous and corruptible because they're authoritarian and put us in a bind when deciding who gets to choose what's "good and true."
The MOI correctly assumes that truth exists, but that nobody gets to claim special authority—"it's true because I said it's true!" This means all ideas must be able to be double-checked and criticized, and that *nobody* has the final say.
An incorrect or immoral idea may still emerge as a consensus (it happens a lot!), but the MOI ensures it will not be etched in stone and that alternative ideas, some of which may be closer to truth and goodness, will have a voice and thus a *chance* of becoming the new consensus.
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27 Apr
1/ Sex spectrum pseudoscience is being presented as fact by a Texas Democrat in a hearing on trans athletes. He makes the absurd claim that there are 6 (!) biological sexes.

These ideas were embarrassing when they were relegated to Tumblr. Now they're in government proceedings.
2/ The claim that there are 6 sexes is based on the flawed notion that people with variations of sex chromosomes beyond XX & XY are their own unique additional sexes. This demonstrates a very poor understanding of biology.

I wrote an article about it. ⬇️ colinwright.substack.com/p/sex-chromoso…
3/ I also wrote an article explaining why, in great detail, biological sex is not a spectrum.

These articles don't present a fringe opinion in biology. These are mainstream facts that are being twisted and suppressed for political reasons.

colinwright.substack.com/p/sex-is-not-a…
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19 Apr
I always learned a lot more from my professors who were demanding of their students and didn't give out easy A's. Professors who actually tested your knowledge and mastery of the material instead of your ability to memorize.
I feel that most of my undergraduate professors were pretty rigorous. But in graduate school I was pretty shocked to observe how many graduate student TAs and even professors would give out A's to nearly every student.
The TAs were surprised to learn that I gave out a good amount of B's and some C's, and were absolutely stunned when I revealed that I once gave a student a D+ in a forest ecology lab I taught. Honestly, that student probably deserved an F.
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10 Apr
1/ 🚨 BREAKING: Democracy Prep Public School concedes emergency injunctive relief to @GabsClark5's son William Clark for Critical Race Theory "graded identity confession and labeling exercises."

This is a big early win, but it is only the beginning. More granular details below.
2/ The Clark family made 5 original demands:

1. Expunge William's failing "Sociology of Change" grade.

2. Permit William to enroll in an alternative course.

3. Have the Principal personally deliver the updated report card to William.

Continued...
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4. Enjoin and restrain Defendants and their affiliates and agents from conducting “graded identity confession and labeling exercises.”

5. Declare that such exercises are unlawful.
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