Biological Essentialism

Context

• Executive Order 14168: Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (January 20, 2025)
• Executive Order 14253: Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History (March 31, 2025)

Response

Sex and Gender

• Combat disinformation about gender research (Science)

Race

• US disregards scientific consensus on race (Science)

With the vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, however, it has become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of genetics (e.g., DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic “racial” groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This means that there is greater variation within “racial” groups than between them. […] The “racial” worldview was invented to assign some groups to perpetual low status, while others were permitted access to privilege, power, and wealth.
American Anthropological Association Statement on Race