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<blockquote data-quote="PsyzhranV2" data-source="post: 8369714" data-attributes="member: 7015332">&quot;Biological essentialism&quot; is an extrapolation from &quot;gender essentialism&quot;. Essentialism as a whole is the belief that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity. So where &quot;gender essentialism&quot; is when the qualities of &quot;man&quot; and &quot;woman&quot; are believed to have fixed, inherent qualities and characteristics (as opposed to being socially constructed), the term &quot;biological essentialism&quot; is used to identify similar modes of thought as they apply to other biological characteristics. Usually, this term comes up in discussions about transgender people and transgender identity, but apparently there is also an argument going on in the taxonomy field over whether Linnaen taxa have inherent essences, which is... odd from an outsider's perspective.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447748/[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v24n03_01?journalCode=wjhm20[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/656545[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PsyzhranV2, post: 8369714, member: 7015332"] "Biological essentialism" is an extrapolation from "gender essentialism". Essentialism as a whole is the belief that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity. So where "gender essentialism" is when the qualities of "man" and "woman" are believed to have fixed, inherent qualities and characteristics (as opposed to being socially constructed), the term "biological essentialism" is used to identify similar modes of thought as they apply to other biological characteristics. Usually, this term comes up in discussions about transgender people and transgender identity, but apparently there is also an argument going on in the taxonomy field over whether Linnaen taxa have inherent essences, which is... odd from an outsider's perspective. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447748/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v24n03_01?journalCode=wjhm20[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/656545[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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