[thewanderer1983]

> It is discrete, and very much not a spectrum. However, there are activists who are trying to override empirical findings to justify their ideas about gender (I have no horse in this race).

This isn't the first time something like this has happened. Take a look at Lysenkoism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism?wprov=sfla1

"Lysenko's assertion that all science is class-oriented in nature."

Stalin Russia had Lysenko's Science. We have Critical Race Theory. Though not to the same extreme, we are seeing seeds of Ideology taking root in the west.