The following announcement is from the MIT Free Speech Alliance website, news & events. Click here for additional information on the participants and co-sponsors. Registration is required for live attendance, see link below. The debate will also be livestreamed on the MFSA YouTube channel.
Debate: Is Sex Binary?
April 17th, 7pm
Resolved, That sex is biological and binary and gender identity is no substitute for sex in social policy.
Reprising her role as debate moderator will be 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 Dr. Alex Byrne, Professor of Philosophy at MIT and author of Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions, and Dr. 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.
The debate will be on April 17, 2024 in the Wong Auditorium (E51-115) on the MIT campus. The event will commence at 7:00pm Eastern Time and will last an hour and a half, with the option of extending the time to accommodate additional audience Q&A. It is free, but a ticket is required.
How can anyone debate obvious facts is beyond me. Biology 101 teaches us that every cell in the body that has a nucleus is coded XX or XY. Even people with Disorders of Sexual Development are either male or female.
I’m not ready to joke about it. The purveyors of gender ideology infuriate me.