Iona Italia & Colin Wright , Two for Tea Podcast

48 - Colin Wright - No One is Born in the Wrong Body

23 Feb 2020 • 97 min • EN
97 min
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You can find Colin’s Quillette article, “The New Evolution Deniers” here: https://quillette.com/2018/11/30/the-new-evolution-deniers/ And his article with William Malone and Julia Robinson, “No One is Born in the Wrong Body” here: https://quillette.com/2019/09/24/no-one-is-born-in-the-wrong-body/ Colin’s article with Emma Hilton, “The Dangerous Denial of Sex” can be found here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dangerous-denial-of-sex-11581638089?mod=opinion_lead_pos5 You can find Colin’s academic work on social spiders, etc. here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y6HdvgcAAAAJ&hl=en Further References Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928) Derren Brown, Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine (2016) I review Brown’s book for Areo magazine here: https://areomagazine.com/2019/01/21/in-praise-of-stoicism-derren-browns-happy-book-review/ My interview with intersex activist Claire Graham: https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/36-claire-graham Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) My interview with Steve Stewart-Williams: https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/43-steve-stewart-williams-an-astonishing-ape Timestamps 3:04 Why study social insects? 4:50 Personality in insects and humans. 23:44 Is no one born in the wrong body? 29:05 Does everyone have a gender identity? 37:50 Sex and sexuality 47:45 Is transgenderism the new gay conversion therapy? 54:54 Why are so many people identifying as trans, even at very young ages? 57:59 How is trans activism affecting academia, science and wider society? 1:00:46 How Colin defines sex. 1:03:41 Non-binary; de Beauvoir’s idea that woman is born not made; gender free 1:06:58 The hatred faced by non-passing transwomen; intrasexual gender policing 1:24:29 How will things develop in the future?

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