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Hello Hello and welcome to Trigonometry I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kissin.

And this is the show for you. You want honest conversations with fascinating people.

And a fascinating guest we have for you today.

She is a former academic sex researcher, neuroscientist, and she is the author of the upcoming book

The End of Gender Dr Debraso. Welcome to Chigonometry.

Hi guys, thank you for having me. Oh it's an absolute pleasure we loved reading the book really

fascinating stuff which we'll get into in a moment but for anyone who doesn't

know who you are just tell everybody who are you how are you where you are what

is the journey that brings you here talking to us through this weird medium?

So I am a science journalist. I write primarily about the science of gender and sex, human sexuality.

I read about the politicization of science and also

academic censorship. I can talk a bit about how I left academia and ended up in

journalism. So during the last few years of my PhD my PhD is in sexual

neuroscience research and I had noticed that the climate in academia had

changed so I noticed there were more and more topics that you couldn't really speak about.

You can, researchers didn't want to touch because they were growing increasingly controversial

and they didn't want to deal with the public backlash.

One issue in particular had to do with transitioning in young

children with gender dysphoria. So at that time pretty much every single

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