PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough has his priorities out of order. On Wednesday, he penned an article declaring GOP Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton “false” for calling his Democratic opponent, James Talarico, a vegan. However, he could have rated Paxton “half-true” or written another article labeling Talarico “false” because Paxton also cited Talarico’s previous comments about there being six sexes and God being non-binary, but he chose to ignore those more radical and more important beliefs.
McCullough quotes Paxton as saying, “He’s a vegan who thinks God is nonbinary and that there’s actually six biological sexes."
He then goes on to argue that Talarico’s 2022 campaign, where he declared, “I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign, so we are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses,” was just a shtick about fighting climate change and that Talarico has repeatedly said he is not a vegan.
Fine. However, as McCullough himself cited, that was not all of what Paxton said. The idea of a vegan Texan may be a humorous oxymoron, but whether or not Talarico actually is one is less important than his wild and insane claims about there being six sexes or using left-wing language about transgenderism to justify saying God is non-binary that PolitiFact just chose to ignore. Talarico is the religious left’s new favorite star, but the central premise of Christianity is that the God of the universe came to earth and lived, was crucified, and resurrected as a human male. At the same time, the First Person of the Trinity uses masculine metaphors to help humans understand Him better.
As for the six sexes claim, Talarico arrived at his conclusion by saying that sex is determined by chromosomal combinations, which include the standard XX and XY, but also X, XXY, XYY, and XXXY. This is simply not how sex works. Someone with Turner syndrome (X) is still a female and someone with 48,XXXY, Jacobs (XYY), or Klinefelter syndrome (XXY) is still a male.
The anti-scientific comments were from a 2021 debate on a bill that Talarico opposed that required public school athletes to compete on sports teams that aligned with their biological sex. To help justify his opposition, Talarico had said, “The point is that biologically speaking, scientifically speaking, sex is a spectrum and oftentimes it can be very ambiguous.”
None of that is true. When it comes to Republicans, PolitiFact loves turning into ScienceFact, but when it comes to the self-styled Party of Science, they are content to simply affirm their nominee’s non-veganism.
