Gay teacher uses science to beat anti-trans bullies
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Gay teacher uses science to beat anti-trans bullies
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Grace Pokela, who works in Nevada, spotted a transphobic meme that people had been sharing on social media and responded by simply using hard science (Picture: Facebook/Grace Ann)
A gay biology teacher has taken down anti-trans trolls by simply using science.
Grace Pokela, who works in Nevada, spotted a transphobic meme that people had been sharing on social media.
The meme claims trans people have a ‘psychological disorder’ and calls those who ‘enable’ the ‘disorder’ sociopaths.
When she saw the meme, Grace decided she would teach people a lesson to dispell the myth about trans people.
The 33-year-old wrote: ‘First of all, in a sexual species, you can have females be XX and males be X (insects)
The meme claims trans people have a ‘psychological disorder’ and calls those who ‘enable’ the ‘disorder’ sociopaths. (Picture: Facebook)
‘You can have females be females because they developed in a warm environment and males be males because they developed in a cool environment (reptiles),” the teacher explained.
The American teacher then started applying these theories to human anatomy.
She said: ‘You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but you are insensitive to androgens, and so you have a female body.
‘And you can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but your heart and brain are male.
I just commented this on a transphobic post that was all like, "In a sexual species, females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y, I'm not a bigot it's just science." I'm a science teacher so I responded with this.
First of all, in a sexual species, you can have females be XX and males be X (insects), you can have females be ZW and males be ZZ (birds), you can have females be females because they developed in a warm environment and males be males because they developed in a cool environment (reptiles), you can have females be females because they lost a penis sword fighting contest (some flatworms), you can have males be males because they were born female, but changed sexes because the only male in their group died (parrotfish and clownfish), you can have males look and act like females because they are trying to get close enough to actual females to mate with them (cuttlefish, bluegills, others), or you can be one of thousands of sexes (slime mold, some mushrooms.) Oh, did you mean humans? Oh ok then. You can be male because you were born female, but you have 5-alphareductase deficiency and so you grew a penis at age 12. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but you are insensitive to androgens, and so you have a female body. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but your Y is missing the SRY gene, and so you have a female body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but one of your X's HAS an SRY gene, and so you have a male body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes- but also a Y. You can be female because you have only one X chromosome at all. And you can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but your heart and brain are male. And vice - effing - versa. Don't use science to justify your bigotry. The world is way too weird for that shit.
‘And vice – effing – versa.’
She finished the posted by simply stating: ‘Don’t use science to justify your bigotry. The world is way too weird for that sh*t.’
The post has since been shared over 22,000 times.
Grace later told the Huffington Post: ‘The fact that a group of people would deny evolution, deny global warming, and deny basic principals of ecology but then turn around and use science to support their bigotry… was something I found repellent.’
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