2 Killed In Plane Crash During Gender Reveal Stunt

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There’s just one tiny little problem, points out Stanford professor of medicine Marcia Stefanick, PhD.
“We don’t know how to measure gender,” says Stefanick, director of the Stanford Women and Sex Differences in Medicine, or WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”), Center. “Sex is generally assigned at birth, based on external genitalia, after which a broad range of biological, particularly reproductive, sex differences are assumed. Individuals are then, usually, forced into a binary model of gender — with distinct masculine and feminine categories — when the possibilities are much broader and more expansive.”
Stefanick and Stanford’s Londa Schiebinger, PhD, argue that gender is instead a point on a continuum with infinitesimal gradations.

"It’s not clear in the video what happened to cause the crash, but it is painfully obvious that the plane was unrecoverably out of control seconds after it passed over the top of the video shooter in what looks to be a somewhat steeply banked turn. Investigators will likely be looking to see if the pilot got too slow in that turn, causing the loss of control and subsequent fatal crash into the water."