Fertility Expert Says ‘Humans Can’t Change Gender’ As It Is Embedded In Genes

Fertility expert Professor Robert Winston has insisted a person can’t change s*x because it’s embedded in genes in every cell in the body. His remark comes amid a row over the definition of a woman, which in recent months has become a topic in politics and sports, including if Trans women should be permitted to compete in female-only competitions.

Even earlier this week, the debate reached the top of the Church of England after a bishop said there were now complexities linked with gender identity and that it doesn’t have a definition of the word woman.

Weighing in on the subject, Professor Winston of Imperial College London said, “We cannot escape our genetics,” and added, “there is no question that we can change our gender, we can do it by mutilating ourselves, we can do it by removing bits of our body and therefore change our shape and so on. But you can’t change your s*x because that’s embedded in those [a person’s] genes in every cell in the body; that’s the difference.”

Appearing on Piers Morgan’s Uncensored, the Labor peer in the House of Lords described a woman as a female, which he said was defined by the genes she has. 

He continued: “That really becomes a problem because occasionally you end up with somebody that is born a male, but then wants to become a female, so you can have that mutilating operation, for example. But then the question is should they be allowed to compete in sports. That’s a major problem because of course; they still have certain male characteristics which will likely give them an edge over other women.”

“So that is where the problem really, I think, lies. And of course also the issue of just social behavior, in different situations. Using toilets, using bathrooms, a whole range of issues like this, which understandably worry women.”

Professor Winston stated a woman has two X chromosomes normally, and it’s probably easier to define a male as a male has specific masculine genes, which make them different from women. According to the fertility expert, the female position is the default human position; therefore, if there are no male genes, one is naturally born as a woman. 

He shared: “I am a clump of about 8 billion cells at least, each of which has got my maleness in it.”

Professor Winston stressed: “I am defined genetically, every single cell has got those male genes, and that would apply to a woman that doesn’t have those genes. That’s what makes the difference. And we cannot escape the fact that we are genetically determined in this way.” However, this also comes as Anglicanism continues to oppose same-sex weddings and only recently permitted women to become bishops. 

Of Government redefining women through the Gender Recognition Act, Campaigner Maya Forstater [pictured below] had shared: “the Church of England could have stuck with its long-established understanding.”

Maya added: “Which makes sense whether your starting point is biology or the Bible. It is shocking that they so readily gave up the definition of man or woman for the state to amend as if this fundamental truth did not matter.” It’s not the first time the Church has been slammed for its stance on gender. In 2019, thousands of clergy were objected to guidance for a new type of baptism to permit Trans Christians to celebrate new identities, and of course, they faced backlash.