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

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?