The use of ‘gender’ in museums ?? (Science Museum)

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The So I’ve been to the Science Museum today - to the new Medicine Galleries (opened last week).

I’m my state of more raised awareness that this boad has given me I am finding myself questioning everything: so your opinions please? They have obviously thought hard and made sure that every section of the gallery has its fair share of women scientists - DNA for example has Rosalind Franklin featured heavily, and indeed I think in every section they had made sure to include women pioneers and scientists - so I am very happy about that (and it’s a brilliant gallery).
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I am wondering about the language - and use of the word ‘gender’ in place of ‘sex’. Here are two examples - what do you think? I think they’ve been timid at the very least.

I looked up the use of both words to refresh myself on Wikipedia here

Second one particularly so, because stones don't have anything to do with how you appear in society and everything to do with your biological sex. First one, you could argue that had they dressed as men they might have got through... but even so, crap.

I think they're wrong. The Stoney sisters were rejected because they were women or female or because of their sex. They were not rejected because of their gender.

Either gender is a thing which is fluid and decided by the individual (queer theory) or it's fixed and immutable (sex = gender). You can't have it both ways.

Stonewall will be pleased to see such things. Their own site defines sex thusly: "Assigned to a person on the basis of primary sex characteristics (genitalia) and reproductive functions. Sometimes the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ are interchanged to mean ‘male’ or ‘female’."

The science museum had the marvellous "do you have a pink brain or a blue brain" quiz. I suspect they've been Stonewalled.

www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/14/science-museum-under-fire-exhibit-brains-pink-blue-gender-stereotypes

As an aside that sounds like a brilliant gallery - a collection of human stones sounds fascinating.

Bristol science centre does exactly the same. In the entrance there are a whole load of questions by the members of the public grouped under Categories. One of them is gender not sex though all the questions asked are clearly about sex not gender e.g. will we ever have more than two genders?

It’s embarrassing that a science centre can’t get this right

I think they're wrong. The Stoney sisters were rejected because they were women or female or because of their sex. They were not rejected because of their gender.

Yes, this is a really important point to make.

Yes - it’s brilliant in so many ways.

Anyway I forgot to take a picture of the stones - but here are some glass eyes and a set of miniature phrenology heads for you perusal (massive brain alien included)

What to say to them when they have managed to finally normalise the amount of women involved in science?

Googly eyes. Of indeterminate sex

I visited the Science museum a couple of years back, before I heard of TRAs or GC. Even back then I was surprised that gender and sex were mixed up in a museum of science.
That pink brain blue brain exhibit disturbed me.

I think they're wrong. The Stoney sisters were rejected because they were women or female or because of their sex. They were not rejected because of their gender.

Did anyone ask them their gender identity? Or is the museum just assuming this because of their presentation?