Alex Byrne on the Trouble with Gender

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Alex Byrne discuss how to understand the differences between sex and gender—and why it matters. Alex Byrne is a philosopher and a professor at MIT in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. He is the author, most recently, of Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Alex Byrne discuss the evolution of the concept of gender and whether it’s useful for understanding social reality; why pediatric gender medicine struggles with questions about how to properly care for young patients; and how we can move towards a society in which transgender people can live with greater dignity. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	Some people have suggested the biologist and gender studies
0:34.9	theorist Anne Foster Sterling is an example, that there may be more than
0:38.9	two sexes, she once suggested that there are at least least five and just to add to the confusion it's often said again
0:47.9	Faustus Erling is a source for this that a significant proportion of the
0:52.0	population is intersex neither male nor female.
0:55.2	So being neither male nor female is supposedly as common as having red hair
1:00.6	close to 2% of the population. So anyway all that according to me is just
1:05.5	completely wrong. There's no truth to that whatsoever. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
1:20.0	I'm Aaron Sarin and I write about China, the country's politics, culture, economics etc.
1:25.6	Also the great ongoing human rights struggle against the Communist Party.
1:28.8	I have a new piece in persuasion titled, Is China China capable of attacking Taiwan. We've heard a lot about
1:35.2	the threat that China poses to Taiwan and I've written about it several times myself.
1:39.2	It really seemed like an invasion could be imminent and the Taiwanese election this January
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