KFF/Washington Post poll conducted in March found that 1-in-4 transgender adults say they've been victims of a physical attack because of their gender identity.
An anthropology conference announced this week that it was canceling a session on gender studies over concerns that it would result in harm to the LGBTQ+ community.
In a press release on Thursday, the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society said that their boards decided to"remove the session 'Let's Talk about Sex Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology' from the AAA/CASCA 2023 conference program."
"The session was rejected because it relied on assumptions that run contrary to the settled science in our discipline, framed in ways that do harm to vulnerable members of our community," the press release said."It commits one of the cardinal sins of scholarship—it assumes the truth of the proposition that it sets out to prove, namely, that sex and gender are simplistically binary, and that this is a fact with meaningful implications for the discipline.
The announcement comes as members of the LGBTQ+ community continue to face criticism and backlash from many who disagree with their sexual preference and gender identity. Demonstrators in favor of LGBT rights rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on October 8, 2019. On September 28, 2023, an anthropology conference announced it was canceling a panel of gender discussion over concerns related to potential harm to the LGBTQ+ community.
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