In fact, changes like the elimination of limbo don’t come from new information, but from secular currents in society that make church dogma seem insu… - Jerry Coyne

Yes, the claim that sex in humans is not a binary is pretty much a lie, and is made on ideological rather than scientific grounds.

The harm, as I’ve said repeatedly, comes not from the existence of religion itself, but from its reliance on and glorification of faith—belief, or, if you will, “trust” or “confidence”—without supporting evidence. And faith, as employed in religion (and in most other areas), is a danger to both science and society. The danger to science is in how faith warps the public understanding of science: by arguing, for instance, that science is based just as strongly on faith as is religion; by claiming that revelation or the guidance of ancient books is just as reliable a guide to truth about our universe as are the tools of science; by thinking that an adequate explanation can be based on what is personally appealing rather than on what stands the test of empirical study.

The orderliness of nature—the so-called set of natural laws—is not an assumption but an observation.