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Listen Again: The Biology Of Sex

TED Radio Hour

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Biological Sex Is Not Black or White

Biological sex is not black or white. It's on a spectrum. There're so many ways somebody could be intersex. We put people in boxes based on their genitalia. Genitals don't actually tell you anything, yet we defy ourselves by them. What you see on the outside can have little to do with what's happening on the inside. And i think there's something about it being you explaining this to people that is particularly a surprising because you're like, yes, but i have x y chromozome....

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