SUE, a 40 foot long Tyrannosaurus rex whose fossil remains presided over the the magnificent Stanley Field Hall at Chicago's Field Museum from 2000 to 2018, has attained social justice enlightenment. Never mind that she died millennia ago in what is now South Dakota, then an area of balmy flood plains abutting an inland sea.
Taking a page out of the Creation Museum's playbook, the Field's administrators have decided to distort scientific understanding in pursuit of a political goal. In recent years, through her social media persona, SUE has asserted her gender identity. It all started on Twitter in March 2017. Reacting to a comment, SUE tweeted that her sex was unknown and that, like human gender non-binary people, she uses “they/them” pronouns.
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