I'm Upping The Prize

The Million Dollar Challenge Has Gone Higher

My good friend Matt Osborne over at Gender Heretics has issued a $1 million dollar challenge that would overturn our understanding of human evolution and reproduction if anyone out there can explain how human beings can reproduce without mentioning gametes or human reproductive organs in the process.

This is a serious offer to everyone proclaiming that human biological sex is not binary, or that it is a white colonial construct rather than a biological reality, or that their queer theory paper has abolished binary sex.

People with disorders of sexual development, often referred to as “intersex,” are in fact male and female, just like everybody else, because they do not produce a third type of human gamete.

Current gender theory depends entirely on this presupposition that a third, fourth, and even fifth human sex exists, especially when it sets about silencing or shunning women who complain about erasure of their lived experiences in sexed bodies.

However, because science defines reproductive sexes by the existence of differential gametes, no third human sex can exist without first identifying a third gamete associated with that third sex.

Like I said, he’s offering $1 million dollars to anyone who can prove it but I don’t think anyone is serious about taking him up on this because the prize money is much too small for something of this magnitude, which is why I’m raising the stakes.

The prize is now TEN MILLION DOLLARS.

I, William A. Ferguson, will pay upon scientific evidence of a third gamete in humans the sum of ten million dollars to anyone who can provide this evidence.

Actually, this prize is worth $11 million dollars because you not only get $10 million from me you get $1 million from the Nobel Prize Committee as such a profound discovery would overturn our understanding of human biology.

There’s just one catch, though: submissions must be in the form of a body of literature, including multiple peer reviewed studies, demonstrating a broad consensus of the entire scientific academic community in agreement that our human evolutionary ancestors could not or did not distinguish female from male before the invention of language. 

Lest, of course, any crank can just come along and claim the prize this is the only proof I will accept.

Note that if you are able to prove the existence of a third human gamete involved in human reproduction to the satisfaction of genuine scientists who understand human biology, and I fail to pay out, you have the right to sue for breach of contract and anticipatory repudiation, at a minimum.

Unlike Mr. Osborne, this challenge will run at least until January 1st, 2070 (just shy of my 101st birthday) or until scientific conditions of proof are met - whichever comes first.

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