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Colin Wright

@drcolinwright.bsky.social
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Evolutionary Biology PhD | CEO/Editor-in-Chief Reality's Last Stand | Fellow at the Manhattan Institute | Advisor at Atheists for Liberty | Whiskey and cats. Email: cwright1859 at gmail

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Tim Janicke @timjanicke.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
In a new #Viewpoint we argue that the binary definition of #BiologicalSex based on gamete size is a scientifically robust framework that is entirely compatible with the diversity of sexual phenotypes and human gender identities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Biological Sex Is Binary and Rooted in Anisogamy
Drawing on empirical evidence and evolutionary theory, we argue that biological sex is most coherently defined as a binary classification of reproductive strategies rooted in anisogamy (the productio....
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damien-marsic.bsky.social @damien-marsic.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
One Reality, Two Sexes, and Endless Debates: A Conversation with Colin Wright open.substack.com/pub/colinwri...
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One Reality, Two Sexes, and Endless Debates: A Conversation with Colin Wright
Evolutionary biologist Colin Wright discusses the science of biological sex and why a simple biological fact has become one of the most contentious issues of our time—including among skeptics.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The war against biology is far from over. A new peer-reviewed paper claims that teaching students "accurate" biology about sex is more inclusive and makes students enjoy class more. But what they call "accurate" biology is actually pseudoscience. Read my latest below.
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The War on Biology Is Far From Over
Activists are flooding the zone with pseudoscience on sex because too much of their politics now depends on it.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
No, my complaint wasn't about "incorporating ideas from gender studies," but that the theses, which are sponsored and guided by faculty, engaged in overt political activism, which is outlawed in Florida. There are other gender studies theses I didn't highlight because they didn't engage in activism.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It's making the rounds because I have responded to your Letter to the Editor. Please read it. I welcome a detailed rebuttal from you. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Response to Mahr’s (2026) Response to Wright’s (2025) “Why There are Exactly Two Sexes” - Archives of Sexual Behavior
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Sharing this masterpiece from Colin Wright. @colinwright.skystack.xyz #SexBinary #Science #actualScience #Biology link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Response to Mahr’s (2026) Response to Wright’s (2025) “Why There are Exactly Two Sexes” - Archives of Sexual Behavior
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gwup | die skeptiker @gwup.org · 27/03/2026
♂️♀️🔬 2025 schrieb Colin Wright im Fachjournal "Archives of Sexual Behavior" einen Kommentar, der zu einem Prüfstein in Debatten über das biologische #Geschlecht wurde. Wir sprachen mit Colin über #Wissenschaft, berufliche Konsequenzen und unterschiedliche Perspektiven. www.gwup.org/skeptiker-ar...
"Ich erwartete eine wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung, etwa in der Form: 'Hier ist der Beweis, deshalb liegst du falsch.' Stattdessen blieb eine solche fachliche Debatte völlig aus. Es hieß sofort: 'Du bist ein schrecklicher, böser Mensch!'" Colin Wright, Evolutionsbiologe, im Interview mit der GWUP.Das ganze Interview mit Colin Wright auf gwup.org: "Eine Realität, zwei Geschlechter – und viele endlose Debatten …"
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What is a woman?
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Peter Boghossian @boghossian.skystack.xyz · 11/12/2025
What’s Wrong With Fucking Your First Cousin? • A Conversation With Evolutionary Biologist Colin Wright
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What’s Wrong With Fucking Your First Cousin?
A Conversation With Evolutionary Biologist Colin Wright
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I applied to countless jobs.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I refused to provide them because they were irrelevant to my scientific expertise, violated my moral principles, and were a political litmus test. I would guess you support affirmative action. Imagine if you had been required to submit documents denouncing AA as part of your application.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
It is a perfectly valid definition, and the definition of "binary" I use when referring to sex.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
No, it's not a "weak binary," it's a binary because there are only two gamete types. The fundamental and universal defining feature of the sexes is having the biological function to produce either sperm or ova. Without a third gamete type, sex is and remains binary.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The "two things" refers to the two types of gametes—sperm and ova—that are the universal defining feature of the sexes. Sex is binary because there are only two gamete types.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Because the fundamental and universal property of the sexes is having the biologiucal function to produce either sperm or ova. And because there are only two gamete types, there are only two sexes. Therefore sex is "composed of two parts" and can be said to be "binary."
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
That's simply not true. I am using the first definition of "binary" below. "Relating to, composed of, or involving two things."
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
People who identify as transgender are still either male or female.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
What's the third sex? Without it, there will only be two sexes. And because there are only two sexes, sex is binary.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Sterile people still have a sex, but "sterile" is not itself a kind of sex. You can be a sterile male or female.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
"Intersex" and "sterile" are not sexes. Therefore there are still only two sexes—male and female.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
"Sexless" isn't a sex. It is, by definition, the absence of having a sex. Thus there are still only two sexes—male and female.
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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
In the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Colin Wright explains why there are only two sexes, and debunks claims that the sexes are more numerous than that or form a spectrum. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/11/06/o...
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Once again: Why there are two sexes and no more
In a recent post on his site “Reality’s Last Stand,” Colin Wright reprints an article he published a few months ago in Archives of Sexual behavior, outlining why there are exactly…
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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Colin Wright calls attention to a new paper arguing that advancing your ideology should take precedence over promulgating empirical truth. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/11/04/c...
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Was the more than 20-fold rise in trans identities since 2010 the result of people finally feeling free to express their authentic selves? Or was it a social contagion? 5 years ago, I and others were canceled for suggesting the latter. New evidence shows we were right. www.wsj.com/opinion/evid...
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Opinion | Evidence Backs the Transgender Social-Contagion Hypothesis
The share of young people claiming another ‘gender identity’ exploded. Now surveys show it is receding.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Was the more than 20-fold rise in trans identities since 2010 the result of people finally feeling free to express their authentic selves? Or was it a social contagion? 5 years ago, I and others were canceled for suggesting the latter. New evidence shows we were right. www.wsj.com/opinion/evid...
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Opinion | Evidence Backs the Transgender Social-Contagion Hypothesis
The share of young people claiming another ‘gender identity’ exploded. Now surveys show it is receding.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This Data Flips the Transgender Bullying Narrative on Its Head A new Finnish study found that trans-identified adolescents—especially those who identify as “nonbinary”—were more likely to bully others than they were to be bullied.
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This Data Flips the Transgender Bullying Narrative on Its Head
A massive study finds that trans-identifying teens, especially those who identify as ‘nonbinary,’ are more likely to bully others than be bullied.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The gender book industry is a powerful tool of indoctrination. We need reality-based alternatives. Pamela Garfield-Jaeger's new book—Froggy Girl—is her answer. "We can’t control every message children hear, but we can make sure they hear the truth at least once."
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‘Froggy Girl’—One Therapist’s Answer to the Gender Book Industry
Too many books teach kids they were born wrong; mine teaches them to love the body they’re in.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Today, the U.S. government officially ended its partnership with the Trevor Project. While the left melts down, Brad Polumbo and I highlight a major reason for the decision: the Trevor Project's promotion of harmful gender ideology and sex pseudoscience targeted at vulnerable youth in crisis.
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Trump Was Right to Defund the Trevor Project
The organization has peddled pseudoscience to vulnerable kids.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
...or binary compounds. Sex is binary in the sense that it is composed of two and only two parts. "Sex is binary" is a synonym for "there are only two sexes." It is totally compatible with organisms not having a sex or organisms like garden snails that are both sexes.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Gametes define the sexes. That is absolutely fundamental. And there is more than one definition of "binary." It's not like computer code where there is only 0s and 1s. Another definition is "composed of two parts." We use this definition when we refer to things like binary star systems...
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Pretty typical response.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
But sex ambiguity is not a third sex or evidence against the binary nature of sex. And most people, as I said, are clearly either male or female. The existence of ambiguous cases does not mean everyone is ambiguous or that sex is a social construct.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
But being sexless is not a new sex. And true hermaphrodites in other species are also not a new sex. They're both sexes. Sex is binary because there are only two sexes. I never said bodies are binary. Most people are unambiguously male or female. A vanishingly rare minority may be ambiguous.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
There are only two sexes, because the differences between gametes—sperm and ova—is not continuous. It is discrete. My claim is not and has never been that "everyone is either male or female." Sex is a developmental outcome. It's totally conceivable that an individual fails to develop a sex.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
And no, humans cannot change their sex. They can change their physiology and secondary sexual characteristics, but these are just cosmetic changes that don't actually alter a person's sex. If you believe that it does, you have a very superficial understanding of what it means to be male or female.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Well, when I say "sex is binary because there are only two sexes," and you object to that statement by saying "but some animals can change sex," I have to assume you some believe that means changing sex is somehow a third sex. Otherwise your response makes no sense.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Some animals can change sex, but humans cannot. Still, in the animals that can change sex, there are only 2 sexes.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The gender book industry is a powerful tool of indoctrination. We need reality-based alternatives. Pamela Garfield-Jaeger's new book—Froggy Girl—is her answer. "We can’t control every message children hear, but we can make sure they hear the truth at least once."
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‘Froggy Girl’—One Therapist’s Answer to the Gender Book Industry
Too many books teach kids they were born wrong; mine teaches them to love the body they’re in.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Today, the U.S. government officially ended its partnership with the Trevor Project. While the left melts down, Brad Polumbo and I highlight a major reason for the decision: the Trevor Project's promotion of harmful gender ideology and sex pseudoscience targeted at vulnerable youth in crisis.
city-journal.org
Trump Was Right to Defund the Trevor Project
The organization has peddled pseudoscience to vulnerable kids.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
None of those things are a 3rd sex. Try again.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I am all for "all gender" restrooms as long as there are also male- and female-only restrooms as well.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
But is there also a women-only restroom?
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Writing for @thebulwark.com, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social argued that the “transgender issue” isn't a distraction for Democrats but a chance to uphold human rights, morality, and science. It's shocking a piece so detached from reality could be published to a wide audience without a single fact-check.
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The Bulwark’s Firehose of Lies on Sex and Gender
Jill Lawrence’s latest piece shows how political slogans about “trans rights” collapse under basic facts of biology, law, and evidence-based medicine.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Hello @safety.bsky.app. My account has been wrongfully slapped with an "Impersonation" label, and nobody is responding to my appeals. Please remove this label. I can verify my identity any way you would like.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Writing for @thebulwark.com, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social argued that the “transgender issue” isn't a distraction for Democrats but a chance to uphold human rights, morality, and science. It's shocking a piece so detached from reality could be published to a wide audience without a single fact-check.
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The Bulwark’s Firehose of Lies on Sex and Gender
Jill Lawrence’s latest piece shows how political slogans about “trans rights” collapse under basic facts of biology, law, and evidence-based medicine.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Trump administration is right to withhold funding over Harvard's racist and ideological hiring and admissions policies that violate the CRA. However, demanding ideological “affirmative action” to achieve viewpoint “equity” is the wrong approach. Read my latest below!
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Harvard, Trump, and the Battle Over Bias
Demanding viewpoint affirmative action is not the correct response to Harvard’s longstanding political bias.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Trump administration is right to withhold funding over Harvard's racist and ideological hiring and admissions policies that violate the CRA. However, demanding ideological “affirmative action” to achieve viewpoint “equity” is the wrong approach. Read my latest below!
realityslaststand.com
Harvard, Trump, and the Battle Over Bias
Demanding viewpoint affirmative action is not the correct response to Harvard’s longstanding political bias.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
On Day 1, Trump signed an executive order affirming the reality that sex is binary, immutable, and based on gametes—not “gender identity.” This was needed. However, protecting women’s rights requires not just acknowledging biological reality but also PREVENTING EFFORTS TO HIDE IT.
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Opinion | Trump Can Ban Transgender Birth Certificates
Most states allow natives to alter their recorded sex, an affront against science and a danger to women.
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Colin Wright @drcolinwright.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Which paper are you referring to?
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