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The Science Museum has taken down a trans-inclusive display featuring a fake penis and chest-binding equipment after complaints were lodged over its contents.
The sex and gender gallery describes transitioning from the 'wrong body' as a 'hero's journey' and gender characteristics as 'difficult to define' and not always in line with 'your biological sex'.
Quotes from a transgender person were also included that described being 'born in the wrong body' - a concept that trans groups are increasingly distancing themselves from.
Several museumgoers, including Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, accused the Boy Or Girl? feature of peddling 'propaganda' over biology, reports the Telegraph.
The controversial sex and gender gallery describes transitioning from the 'wrong body' as a 'hero's journey' and gender characteristics as 'difficult to define' and not always in line with 'your biological sex'
The Science Museum (above) has taken down a trans-inclusive display featuring a fake penis and chest-binding equipment after complaints were lodged over its contents
The now-empty display featured a fake penis, a controversial compression vest to flatten the chest and hormone-inducing testosterone patches.
Baroness Nicholson wrote to the museum's chairman, Sir Ian Blatchford, to argue the Boy Or Girl? gallery 'promotes social and medical transition in a way that is not neutral'.
The exhibit also contains an information panel which states gender 'is more difficult to define' than sex.
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