Writing for the Claremont Institute publication The American Mind, Richard Samuelson makes an interesting point about how we’ve been treating sex, or its avatar gender, the same way we treat race. He argues we should not do so.
His point is that the differences between biological males and females are real, physiological, XX vs. XY based. He argues that the differences between races are cultural or imagined - basically not real.
He expects us to take his word for this lack of differences between races. It isn’t clear that everyone shares his belief, although it is clear that society demands we do so. For example, does anyone believe the reason most players in the NBA are African Americans is cultural?
