In a world of order like ours, some things are this, and others are that. In a chaotic world, all is undefined and undifferentiated. Whatever the topic, skeptics, subjectivists, and other agents of chaos are wont to undo that fundamental childhood skill of discriminating between shapes, and animals, and boys and girls. If we are able to successfully trace reality along its seams, the skeptic’s epistemological pessimism is defeated. The subjectivist’s world-making is constrained. Today, for those who want to transcend our innate sexes, fuzzying the lines between male and female is the order of the day. The strategy goes like this. Instead of working from clear cases to understanding edge cases, the chaos agent argues from edge cases to deny there is any order or categories at all. Science News offers a typical example: “Biological Sex Is Not as Simple as Male or Female”. Surveying a variety of developmental sexual disorders and anomalies, Nathan Lents provides a conclusion: “These are not hard categories with clear definitions.”

Colin Wright has emerged as a leading voice defending sexual realism on social media and at Reality’s Last Stand. For example, in “Sex Chromosome Variants Are Not Their Own Unique Sexes“, Wright addresses the increasingly widespread argument that syndromes like Klinefelter and Turner constitute new sexes. Against the sex denialists, Wright is a leading proponent for the minimal definition of sex the Trump Administration has employed in its executive orders attempting to reassert sex differences and protections. Write argues: sex “is a functional classification defined by one — and only one — criterion: the type of gamete an individual has the biological function to produce. All other traits — genitalia, hormones, chromosomes — are either causes or consequences of this primary reproductive distinction.” Wright’s website is a treasure trove of timely information from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist.

Jay Richards is another leading voice defending a common sense understanding of the sex binary with scientific and philosophical precision. Writing at the Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse, Richards defends the Trump Administration’s approach: “Why States Must Define Sex Precisely”.

The Colson Center is responsible for spearheading an effort to meet the trans moment with Christian truth at a high level. The Identity Project bills itself as “a comprehensive library of videos and other resources addressing issues of identity, sex, ‘gender’, and sexuality from a Judeo-Christian worldview, featuring world-class experts.” Its contributors include the EPPC’s Person & Identity Project, the Ruah Woods Institute, Sex Ed Reclaimed, and many others.