SIO285: Debunking "The End of Gender" Part 2
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Here is Part 2 of our debunking of a book by Dr. Debra Soh called "The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society." Soh is someone with a relevant credential, which perhaps makes her anti-trans schtick even more dangerous. Within the text are kernels of truth about the science of sex and gender, but she abuses that science beyond recognition to defend cultural conservative norms. Lindsey has the breakdown for us!
Links: (for both parts)
Proposal about the definition of "sex," Nature editorial responding to the definition, Teen vogue video on gender diversity, Myth of persistence, Response to Soh re: rapid onset gender dysphoria, Original study on ROGD, Transgender suicide, Review on current best practices in care of transgender youth
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to? Serious inquiries only. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to Serious inquiries only. This is Thomas. That's Dr. Lindsey Osterman. |
| 0:37.0 | Back at it, this is part two of debunking the transphobic slice of crap. That is Dr. |
| 0:45.0 | Debra Soes book called debunking a debunking, I guess, because her book is called The End of Gender, |
| 0:53.0 | debunking the myths about sex and identity in our society. And this is a debunk of that debunk. |
| 0:58.0 | It's an inappropriately debunked. Bad debunk. |
| 1:03.0 | So maybe the first episode would be called The Beginning of The End of Gender, |
| 1:08.0 | and this one couldn't be the end of the end of the end of the end of the end of the end of the end of the end of the end. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah. We are, I guess we're rebunking these myths then. |
| 1:18.0 | Does that? Yeah, I don't know how it works. |
| 1:20.0 | Anyway, make sure you cop part one, if you didn't already. |
| 1:24.0 | So I think just just in case we want to re up our content warning that we are debunking |
| 1:29.5 | a very transphobic book and so discussions of things that are transphobic and ideas that |
| 1:35.6 | are not valid and probably very insulting. |
| 1:39.0 | So content warning there, we are debunking this book, we are discussing the book, it's |
| 1:43.3 | a transphobic book. |
| 1:44.6 | I am so excited to hear Lindsey break this down, it's so educational, it's, I'm learning |
| 1:50.4 | stuff. |
| 1:51.4 | I didn't even know like how much the difference there there was between this picture of like |
| 1:57.0 | scientific sex, you know, and what actually is out there in the world, it's so fascinating, |
| 2:02.8 | much more fascinating than Deborah so makes it out to be or other transphobes make it |
| 2:07.8 | out to be. |
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