How many sexes are there?

Can men get pregnant?

Until about an hour ago, all of us used our physical observation and common sense to answer these questions. Now, however, academia has taught us that both of these are either unreliable or nonexistent. So what’s an ordinary, non-academic to do?

We can read articles by professional biologists such as Michael Golubovsky, who gives us a tour de force (and lots of good links!) on the inner workings of human biological sex.

The establishment of sex during development is a complex stepwise process. Four successive stages or levels can be distinguished, when, from the moment of cell divisions of one fertilized egg, differences in “he” and “she” arise successively: 1) the level of genes and chromosomes, 2) the level of sexual organs and their hormones, 3) secondary external sexual characteristics (phenotype), and 4) sex-specific differences in brain structures and brain-gonad dialogue.

Tl;dr Two. The answer is always two.

Bioethicist Jennifer Lahl warns us that “when academic theory turns pregnancy into performance art, women and science are left behind.”

At some of the most prestigious universities in the world, ideas once confined to fringe online communities and personal blogs are now published in academic journals and treated as legitimate scholarship. These aren’t just strange thought experiments—they’re full-blown efforts to “queer” biology, reimagine pregnancy without women, and reshape medical ethics in ways that downplay the health of [fetuses]. What used to sound like satire is now shaping how doctors are trained and how healthcare is delivered.

Like Golubovsky, Lahl gives us her tour de force (with lots of good links!) about the latest fashionable nonsense (h/t to Alan Sokal for this phrase) in the seemingly inexhaustible fantasyland of gender ideology. You can’t make this shit up.

Tl;dr No. The answer is always no.

Now compare the two articles. The first is about material reality and its manifestation. The second is about exceedingly bad fiction. If any of this academic weirdness were novels, I bet you dollars to donuts that every publisher would reject all of them. After all, fiction, even science fiction, needs to be plausible. Suspending disbelief in this case is simply impossible.

The first article describes an innately beautiful process, one that evolved over four billion years on our planet. Mother Nature knows what’s she’s doing, and while she’s not perfect, she does it pretty damn well. The second article describes human delusions that have escaped the confines of their ivory towers. These may be interesting and troubling, but they’re delusions nonetheless.

The lesson?

Nature and reality are always superior to any fiction humans can devise.

Always.

Reading the biological processes underlying biological sex, I was fascinated, astonished, and humbled. Humbled that I, as a mere human, could never think of or plan or recreate these phenomena. How could anyone imagine such intricate, compelling, and vital processes? Biology is amazing and wonderful! On the other hand, reading about human delusions/fiction, I was angry and disgusted at human hubris who thinks we can outsmart, and when we inevitably fail, deny essential biology and/or dress it in ridiculous clown costumes. It’s nonsense all the way down.

Which subject inspires awe? For me, there’s simply no contest.

Readers, what do you think? Let us know in the comments.