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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

When Harry Became Sally | Interview: Carole Hooven

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Carole Hooven, evolutionary biologist and nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the differences between gender and sex, homosexuality in the animal kingdom, and epigenetics. The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.

0:18.0

Can you digger?

0:27.5

Ladies and your listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought

0:30.5

you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

0:32.6

This is one of these very rare times where I'm actually re-recording the intro. So you're going to miss some of the

0:39.0

witty banter and badinage I had with today's guest. But I just wanted to let listeners know,

0:45.2

because I know for a fact that many listeners listen with kids in the car. It's not so much

0:49.0

that we touch on controversial issues, which we do. But we also use a lot of scientifically accurate terminology for various

0:57.6

body parts that some people may not want to hear themselves or may not want to hear around

1:03.8

small children or whatever. So I just thought I should let people know. I don't think we need

1:07.9

an explicit warning. There's no cursing or anything like that.

1:14.9

But there was some frank talk, and I just thought I should let people know.

1:18.3

So with that said, today's guess is Carol Hoeven.

1:22.1

I get a lot of feedback from listeners saying that we should talk about transgender stuff more.

1:23.7

And quite a few people said I should talk to her.

1:27.2

Turns out that not long ago she became a colleague of mine.

1:29.4

She's an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She was a professor at Harvard of evolutionary biology for a very long time.

1:36.2

She famously left Harvard for complicated reasons having to do with sort of the politics of transgender stuff

1:43.7

and her scientific views. I'll let her talk about

1:46.2

all of that and put links to things in the show notes about all of that. And she's the author of

1:50.8

a book, T, the story of testosterone, the hormone that dominates and divides us. Carol, welcome to

1:57.2

the remnant. Thank you so much for having me. So listeners know that you're not technically

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