Just two genders: Medicine Nobel laureate reprimands "Queer" commissioner Lehmann

Berlin - The biologist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard has rejected the positions of the "Queer" commissioner Sven Lehmann (Greens) on the subject of gender as "unscientific". “Of course there is a range when it comes to gender, social sex, while biological sex is only female or male” she told feminist magazine Emma on Monday . "Maybe Herr Lehmann missed the basic course in biology."

The theory that a person's gender is supposedly just a social construct and therefore variable is "nonsense". “How you feel can be changed by social and psychological circumstances. But not biological sex. Wherever science is really being done, that's completely indisputable," the Nobel Prize winner in medicine clarified. The difference lies in the "perceived" gender and the biological facts.

The idea of ​​being able to change your gender at will is wishful thinking. For example, taking hormones can give a girl a deeper voice and grow a facial hair, but the chromosomes remain the same throughout her life.

Nobel Prize winner warns of health consequences
Gender changes are also a fantasy construct. Therefore, the legislature cannot allow such as claimed. "To just say: From now on, this woman can claim to be a man. And vice versa. The biological basis cannot be changed at all,” she emphasized.

The federal government's move to allow young people from the age of 14 to determine their gender themselves is "madness". Many girls are unhappy during puberty. With a view to taking hormones, Nüsslein Volhard warned: “The body can’t handle it well in the long run. Every hormone you take has side effects. In principle, taking hormones is dangerous.”

Source: Junge Freiheit