Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast.

This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's show is Colin Wright. He's an evolutionary biologist and a Manhattan Institute fellow. He's the founding

editor of Reality's Last Stand on Substack and an academic advisor for the Society for Evidence-Based

Gender Medicine.

And his work has been featured in a number of major outlets, including The Wall Street Journal,

The New York Post, and Quillette, and he's also written for a city journal.

He writes extensively about gender identity and the biology of sex, and today we're going

to discuss some of his recent work for C.J. So, Colin,

thanks very much for joining us. Thank you a lot. I appreciate being here.

So academics, activists have attacked the sex binary, something that you've written about for us, which is the division of humans

into the biological categories of male and female.

Now, the gender theorists, the gender activists point to intersex conditions, which

cause people to have ambiguous sexual anatomy as proof that the sex binary is fictitious.

They argue that intersex people prove that biological sex is actually a spectrum or exists on a

spectrum, and that the categories of male and female are a social construct made up.

So therefore, sorting people into two categories, male and female, is on their view

harmful and inaccurate.

So let's start by just unpacking their reasoning.

What do you think of it?

And does the sex binary require that every person be

unambiguously male or female? Yeah, that's a great question that gets right to the fundamental

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