Gender activists push to bar anthropologists from identifying humans by gender
&gt; Weiss said the recent explosion in the number of people identifying as transgender suggests that trend is “social and not biological,” so “retroactively de-sexing obscures this obvious fact.”<p>That&#x27;s such an incredibly weak argument. The reason the number of left-handed people exploded in the 50s and 60s was indeed &quot;social&quot;, in that a reduction in discrimination leading to more people publicly admitting to their natural state. - And &quot;desexing&quot; obviously doesn&#x27;t seem to be the goal either, as the biological sex seems to be usually identifiable. Gender identity and its social context is indeed something that shifts across time and culture, so just applying our modern standards to hunter gatherers 8000 years ago is simply bad science.