The majority of scientists at some of the world’s leading universities have agreed that gender is binary and not “fluid,” a new poll has revealed.
According to a report published by the UK’s Telegraph, almost 200 scientists at British universities were polled about the issue from 2023 to 2024.
The newspaper conducted the survey with Censuswide, a market research consultancy headquartered in London.
The poll of scientists found that a majority of respondents view gender to be binary as it is determined by a person’s biological sex.
However, most of the scientists also said they believe “gender identity,” where a person lives their life as a gender that isn’t their biological sex, can be “fluid.”
The scientists drew a sheer distinction between gender and sex as a biological classification and the leftist ideology of “gender identity.”
With the caveat that excludes rare cases involving “intersex” individuals, the pollsters received feedback showing that 58% of respondents believe gender is binary.
The Cleveland Clinic says people who are intersex “have genitals, chromosomes or reproductive organs that don’t fit into a male/female sex binary.”
Twenty-nine percent of respondents agreed with the statement that “sex is not binary.”
13% of respondents did not share a view on the question or preferred not to say.
The Telegraph also noted that 64 percent of scientists said they believe “gender identity” is fluid.
Meanwhile, 22% said “gender identity” is binary and 14% did not provide an answer.
A professor of behavioral biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Dr. Wolfgang Goymann, provided a comment to the newspaper about the findings.
“To me, this just means that at least 29% of the academics that filled out this questionnaire do not understand the biological concept of sex, and at least 22% of them do not know what gender means,” Goymann said.
The debate about sex and gender being binary has become a hot-button issue in the United States.
Democrats have been pushing measures that seek to override biological terms with radical ideology in the eyes of the law.
Republicans, meanwhile, have been battling to define biological gender to protect men’s and women’s rights.
Last year, Kansas became the first state to pass a bill that defines a “woman” as someone who is biologically born female.
The move laid the groundwork for potential bans on males who “identify” as “transgender women” from using single-sex areas designated for females.
The Public Religion Research Institute released a survey in 2023 that found 65% of Americans, up from 59% in 2021, say there are only two genders: male and female.
Pollsters found a partisan divide in which 90% of Republicans supported the gender binary.
Meanwhile, 44% of Democrats agreed with it and 66% of independents said they believed in two genders.
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