An anthropology professor at the University of Pittsburgh denied that there was a difference between male and female skeletons in the sarcastic laughter of students during a lecture by college swimming champion Riley Gaines.
Gabby Yearwood is a professor whose research focuses on “social constructions of race, racism, masculinity, sexuality, sexuality, black feminist theory, black gay theory, sports anthropology, and the black diaspora” according to His biography.
Gaines, a rising star on the conservative speaking circuit, is an advocate for keeping student-athletes who are born biologically male out of women’s sports. She spoke at school recently and asked a question to her audience.
“If you were to dig up a human being—two people—a hundred years from now, a man and a woman, would you be able to accurately tell the difference from the bones?”
Yearwood replies, “No,” to laughter from the students in the audience, as well as Gaines.
An anthropology professor at the University of Pittsburgh denied the difference between male and female bone structure during a speaking engagement from college swimming champion Riley Gaines.
Gabby Yearwood (pictured) is a professor whose research focuses on “social constructions of race, racism, masculinity, sexuality, sexuality, black feminist theory, black gay theory, sports anthropology, and the black diaspora”
Yearwood doubles down on it, saying he’s the “expert in the room” on the matter.
Have any of you been to anthropological sites? Have any of you studied biological anthropology? I’m just saying, I have over 150 years of data, I’m just curious as to why I’m being derided.
At one point, Yearwood exclaims, “I have a Ph.D!”
The Independent Women’s Forum, which posted the clip, wrote: “This is how detached the left is from reality that they have to deny basic scientific facts.
They added: “She (Gains) may not have a PhD in anthropology like Professor Yearwood, but she and her colleagues know the physical advantages of biological males over females in sports firsthand.”
According to the Smithsonian Institution: ‘MALS tend to have larger, stronger bones and joint surfaces, and more bone growth at the sites of muscle adhesion. However, the pelvis is the best indicator of the skeletal structure associated with sex, because of the distinctive features adapted for childbearing.
The skull also contains features that could indicate gender, although they are a little less reliable.
They note that sex-related differences are not evident in prepubertal children’s bones.
Gaines, a rising star on the conservative speaking circuit, is an advocate for keeping student-athletes who are born biologically male out of women’s sports. She spoke at school recently and asked a question to her audience
“If you were to dig up a human being—two people—a hundred years from now, a man and a woman, would you be able to accurately tell the difference from the bones?” Gaines asked
but, Discover Magazine He notes that structural studies of sex can lead to “profound errors” and can overlook the existence of intersex people, who are born with a mixture of X and Y chromosomes.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Yearwood for comment on the incident.
Gaines was speaking about her experience competing against transgender women participating in women’s sports teams after she was forced to go head-to-head with Leah Thomas, a University of Pennsylvania swimmer.
Earlier this year, Gaines criticized President Joe Biden for proposing to change the definition of “sex” in the federal civil rights law to include “gender” and “gender identity.”
Changes to Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any school or other educational program that receives funding from the federal government, would thus allow transgender female athletes to compete against biological women in sports.
By doing this, Gaines writes in an essay, biological women would be placed at a disadvantage when competing against transgender women.
Gaines used the opportunity to recount how she was forced to share a locker room with Thomas in the NCAA tournament back in March.
Gaines has become a rising star on the conservative speaking circuit, having recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to keep student-athletes born biologically male out of women’s sports
The Kentucky graduate spoke at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference
“At NCAA tournaments, I’ve seen a 6’4” male display male parts in the women’s locker room, she wrote.
To be absolutely clear, the first autopsy I and several other women were forced to view confirms that Thomas is male.
Gaines said she then asked NCAA officials where she could change “since I had no intention of undressing in front of a man.
They told me there were no safeguards available for me to change it somewhere Thomas couldn’t get to.
To recap, the NCAA has placed the onus on the female to avoid getting naked in front of a biological man with biological parts that are sexually attracted to women. Let it sink in.’
Thomas’ participation on the girls’ swim team at UPenn has brought the issue of transgender students’ participation with school sports teams of their chosen gender to the forefront of the current culture wars
Conservative efforts to suppress transgender participation in school sports have gained momentum in recent years, particularly since the rise of Leah Thomas.
It has become a new culture war front and has emerged as a campaign issue in many races in the 2022 election.
Left-wing, LGBTQI+ activists have rejected it, claiming that policies that force students to participate in school activities categorized by biological sex — rather than gender identity — are oppressive to transgender youth.
As of now, 18 states have laws prohibiting students from participating in school sports that are compatible with their gender identity, according to LGBT map project.