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The Jordan Harbinger Show

694: Carole Hooven | How Testosterone Dominates and Divides Us

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Business, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Carole Hooven (@hoovlet) teaches and co-directs the undergraduate program in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and is the author of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us.

What We Discuss with Carole Hooven:
  • What creates differences between the sexes?
  • How testosterone is at the core of who we are, regardless of gender.
  • The ways testosterone shapes our minds and bodies in the womb and beyond.
  • What we've learned about testosterone from people who have transitioned between genders.
  • How politics is affecting science and research in testosterone.
  • And much more...

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If I were to take male typical levels of testosterone as part of a gender transition,

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while again there's a lot of variation in the effect,

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the biggest effect is that I would start feeling like a teenage boy.

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I would become super horny basically,

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in a way that for females it's like a whole new world when they take testosterone.

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