155 - Loop de Loops and Deepities of Sex and Gender with Colin Wright
Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Gender, sex, intersex conditions, hormonal interventions, sexual signaling, behavioral differences…this episode covers them all. Sasha and Stella welcome evolutionary biologist, Dr. Colin Wright for a long overdue discussion going deep into the intersection of biology, psychology, and social factors in shaping our understanding of sex and gender. This is a refreshing conversation exploring insights into the evolving discourse surrounding trans identities, the distinction between sex and gender, the principles of scientific inquiry, behavioral development, sexual orientation, and societal perceptions. There is no denying that Colin's expertise and clarity of thought contribute to a nuanced discussion on these complex topics.
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| 0:00.0 | Stella, we finally got Colin Wright on the show. |
| 0:04.0 | I know, I've been such a fan for so long and we finally got one. |
| 0:09.0 | It's funny, it's funny that he hadn't come on before, but I'm so thrilled because this was a brilliant conversation. |
| 0:14.4 | I know and you know one of the amazing things is that Colin was telling us |
| 0:19.9 | His intellectual hero the reason he got into biology in the first place, is the very famous scientist |
| 0:27.0 | Richard Dawkins. And recently, Richard Dawkins retweated Collins presentation from your conference, your Gen Specte conference, |
| 0:37.0 | praising it and saying that it was, you know, incredibly wonderful or something like that and it's just |
| 0:46.0 | like yeah you know Colin Wright basically got cancelled from the world of biology and very very bravely entered this world speaking |
| 0:56.2 | about things that used to be obvious and normal to say just a few years ago and |
| 1:00.8 | was really ostracized for it. So when your intellectual hero kind of praises |
| 1:08.0 | your work and acknowledges that your presentation is brilliant, you're really on the right track and it was just so cool. |
| 1:14.7 | It was actually cool to interview Colin at this point in time because we were able to talk about that experience. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, and I was even delighted by proxy that Rich Dawkins had, you know, had tweeted |
| 1:25.8 | Colin's presentation which was from Genesbeck. But, you know, Colin is, is clearly, |
| 1:30.8 | when you listen to this interview, you'll see Colin is just such an advocate for evolutionary biology as and he's truly truly absorbed in his field. |
| 1:40.8 | He loves it, he knows about it, and he is a really educated person who enjoys |
| 1:47.6 | following knowledge and looking for patterns. But not only that, I've kind of got to know him in my own way kind of through online kind of discourse and you know he's an incredibly |
| 1:58.0 | Honorable man it doesn't surprise me that he stood up and spoke about it. It doesn't surprise me at all that he has kind of just held the line, may I say, but that he has been really, really decent and he's a truth seeker. |
| 2:14.1 | He's a truth seeker in the larger sense of the word |
| 2:16.3 | and I'm just absolutely thrilled that we got to get him on |
| 2:20.3 | because he's one of those special people in the world. |
| 2:23.0 | And something that I think he does particularly well is kind of create analogies for us to understand complex scientific topics. |
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