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Gabby Yearwood: 'Woke' University of Pittsburgh professor denies sex-specific skeletal differences

'I'm just saying, I've got over 150 years of data, I'm just curious as to why I'm being laughed at, I have a PhD!' Gabby Yearwood said

PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA: A "woke" University of Pittsburgh anthropology professor named Gabby Yearwood refuted the notion that there is a difference between the bone structure of males and females during a discussion about gender. Yearwood's unfounded and woke idea has drawn a raging internet backlash.

In the video captured during the discussion, Riley Gaines can be seen asking, "If you were to dig up a human — two humans — a hundred years from now, both a man and a woman, could you tell the difference strictly off of bones?" Professor Yearwood responds, "No," as seen in a video shared on Twitter. Students laughed hysterically at the response, including Gaines, a former University of Kentucky swimmer who believes there are "only two sexes," according to her Twitter bio.

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Yearwood reportedly says he is the "expert in the room," according to FOX News. He said, "Have any of you been to anthropological sites? Have any of you studied biological anthropology? I'm just saying, I've got over 150 years of data, I'm just curious as to why I'm being laughed at. I have a PhD!"

On Friday, March 31, Yearwood's woke and unfounded statements sparked intense backlash on social media. The Independent Women's Forum, a non-profit organization that focuses on economic policy concerns, tweeted, "This is how far removed the Left is from reality that they must deny basic scientific facts."

Independent Women's Forum added, "When the self-proclaimed 'expert in the room' is offended that his assertion that males & females don't have distinct skeletal differences is laughable, one might wonder what students studying anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh are being taught by their professors?"

'I was taught the difference in a museum when I was 12'

Many people on Twitter have reacted to the gender discussion video on Twitter with one person writing, "I think the students attending @PittTweet taking anthropology should get their money back if they took a class from this professor or so called 'expert' @PittTweet should be ashamed to have a professor like this teaching for them I bet Thousands of Anthropologists would agree."

Another person wrote, "Clearly there's more than one definition of 'expert'. Ours, and their's. There is, however, only one definition of 'arrogant'." A third person wrote, "Ugh. I took forensic anthropology as an undergrad and the final was literally just identifying characteristics of 6 skeletons— sex, age, etc. Undergrads were able to do it."

This other person wrote, "I can't believe what I've just heard: an anthropologist claims he can't tell female bones from male ones? I was taught the difference in a museum when I was 12 – the shape of the PELVIS would be the answer!!" One person wrote, "As the philosopher Shakira once said... 'my hips dont lie'."

How do archaeologists determine a skeleton's sex?

Archaeologists emphasize pelvic form to determine the sex of a skeleton, in addition to the widely held idea that greater traits, such as larger skulls and enormous regions where muscles attach to bone, are more likely to be found in males.

Archaeologists, however, have acknowledged faults in overlooking intersex people in addition to small-statured men or large-statured women, according to Discover Magazine and other experts. Intersex individuals may seem physically either male or female, but they do not possess either XY or XX chromosomes. Instead, they may have a combination like XXY.

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