Critical Analysis

What a terrible, terrible paper.

And yet it was cited seriously on Lemmy over in https://lemmy.today/post/57474308. Here's a takedown of it:

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/03/17/the-journal-cell-endorses-the-view-that-sex-isnt-binary/

Here are the main problems with Velocci’s paper:

• It conflates sex differentiation, sex determination, and the definition of sex
• It argues, wrongly, that no progress has been made in understanding the nature and definition of biological sex
• Its argument is ideological rather than scientific, yet is given the trappings of science
• It argues that the binary nature of sex, which the author rejects, somehow erases transgender and nonbinary people
• And, as usual, its supposed examples that make sex nonbinary, like the long clitoris of the hyena, are wrong. But where are the clownfish? Send in the clownfish!