The post has been removed
Good. It never should have been posted in the first place, but good that it’s been removed.
The post about me has been removed from @sciam for not meeting editorial standards. Thank you everyone for your support. Half truths, obfuscations, and lies help no person have agency over their body.
Note where the article used to be:
Editor’s note. The post that originally appeared here has been removed because we’ve determined that it doesn’t meet our editorial standards.
Jen Gunter a couple of hours later:
Removing this piece was important not just for me, but for health care. Naturopaths, anti-vaccine doctors, and people who claim they can “balance hormones” with food etc were celebrating my “take down” in @sciam seeing it as proof that they are right.
The acting editor in chief apologized to me by phone this morning and I have accepted his apology.
And so let’s move on to leftovers, puppy and kitten videos, shoes, coffee, wine and, of course, science.
SciAm should have known better than to cross a Doctor God.
Disappointing to discover that someone who clearly knows more than most about women’s bodies thinks that being a woman is about ‘how you feel inside’:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/well/thinning-hair-all-over.html
Guest – yeah, that was disappointing. I will agree that neither pubic hair nor ovaries define you as a woman (many women do not have one or both), but how you feel inside? Nope. Biologically, there are a whole suite of characteristics which define women, and any one woman may be missing one or more of the characteristics without losing her womanhood.