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🗓️ 21 September 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Biologist Colin Wright joins the podcast to explore one of today’s most contentious topics: the intersection of biological sex and gender.
Drawing on his expertise in animal behavior and evolutionary biology, Colin breaks down key concepts such as biological sex, gender identity, and gender dysphoria. He also examines the shift in societal definitions of what it means to be a man or woman, and how these evolving perspectives fit with long-standing biological principles.
This session was presented at FreedomFest 2024. To see more speeches and sessions from FreedomFest, visit freedomfest.com/civl.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Michael Sherman Show. The Michael Sherber Show I'm going to start with a technical question since Colin is a biologist. So follow me along here. This is very technical. Colin, what is a woman? |
0:35.0 | That is the big question of our times. |
0:39.0 | Yeah, it's weird that they'd have a biologist on to ask me this basic questions like this. |
0:43.9 | So for, I guess, our society's been running on this idea that being a woman has been an adult |
0:49.8 | human female for quite some time. |
0:51.6 | This is how we've structured our society around it, a lot of our laws. |
0:54.9 | This is why we have sex segregated bathrooms and prisons, etc. because we acknowledge that |
1:01.3 | we're a sexually dimorphic species. We have males and females. And then our because we have |
1:03.3 | have males and females and then our traits sort of vary among |
1:06.8 | individuals and there's average differences between males and females. |
1:09.7 | What we have now is sort of a newer ideology that's come along that wants to flip all of this on its head and to say |
1:15.9 | This is not what being a man or a woman is they want to root it's more in just the way that you feel about yourself |
1:21.6 | Your so-called gender identity. |
1:23.4 | And this is why you see things like males like Leah Thomas who are winning the |
1:28.0 | NCAA Division 1 women's champion and swimming and diving. |
1:31.6 | This is why you see males in female prisons and a lot of |
1:36.3 | pseudoscience about what biology is that kind of goes hand in hand is why |
1:40.5 | you're seeing this push for so-called gender-affirming care |
1:44.0 | that's rooted in this biological pseudoscience that says that, you know, |
1:48.0 | sex isn't really a thing, it's a spectrum, there's more than two of them, |
1:51.0 | maybe it's a social construct. |
1:53.6 | And if we just give you enough hormones and surgeries, |
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