Welcome to another episode of Heretics. Today's guest is Dr Kate Coleman,

the founder and director of Keep Prisons Single Sex that is something that I mean it's absolutely mad

that in the year 2024 this is something that needs to be said let alone a

foundation set up around the concept of it. I mean absolutely bonkers in my

opinion regardless of what you think of the trans thing and I think everyone is welcome to

have different views on what gender is, what it isn't.

Although I saw an interesting tweet the other night

from James Lindsay, who was looking into where

this idea of a separation between gender and sex came from and it turns out that

I think what many people suspected is that gender is simply a synonym for sex and

it's often used or often was used as a polite way of

talking about someone's sex or gender because the using the word sex was sort of

frowned upon and it often felt a bit easier to say gender

but up until then the word gender had only really been used for language,

feminine, masculine, noiter, these are genders of language.

It was only in sort of the 60s where it started to first become applied to something potentially different from sex and I think the 70s and 80s was it with

John Money who's very famous or infamous in this whole industry and area for performing

horrible operations or tests and experiments and children,

ruining their lives, they ended up killing themselves, these kids, as adults.

And he was the one who really pushed this concept of a gender identity

separate from your sex and it's amazing how that's flooded our zeitgeist flooded our culture to such an extent that even people who are pretty maybe gender

critical sort of talk about having a gender somehow separate from from one's

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