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Anthropology is the latest victim.  You’d think that it would be pretty simple (of course I’m an expert because I’ve watched every episode of ‘Bones’).  

But really, there are clear physical differences between male and female skeletons.  And if a person is trying to identify a body, those differences is where they would start.

But apparently the Anthropological Associations of both America and Canada mistake the term ‘gender’ for ‘sex’.  So they canceled a panel session discussing the importance of biological sex identification in their field.

The canceled scholars were set to focus on the fact that while “it has become increasingly common in anthropology and public life to substitute ‘sex’ with ‘gender,’ there are multiple domains of research in which biological sex remains irreplaceably relevant to anthropological analysis,” according to the panel’s description.

However in their letter scrubbing the presentation, the two groups stated the “reason the session deserved further scrutiny was that the ideas were advanced in such a way as to cause harm to members represented by the Trans and LGBTQI of the anthropological community as well as the community at large.”

 The Age of Enlightenment is officially over.