Women's Division

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L laurel hubbard is taking puberty blockers to compete in the Olympics as a transgender woman. She has reduced her testasteron level to under ten animals per leader for at least a year prior to the competition. The benefits, the physical athletic benefits of male puberty that we can all see with our own two eyes are the some of the things that i talked about before. People are trying to use testasteron and argue about the science of ostrone and try to prove that test ostrone isn't that important, doesn't confer these athletic advantages. And that's justolshet, because the science is very clear on this,. They're getting mistrusting, you know, universities, main

In episode 204, Michael Shermer speaks with codirector of undergraduate studies in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, Carole Hooven, PhD about testosterone. While most people agree that sex differences in human behavior exist, they disagree about the reasons. But the science is clear: testosterone is a potent force in human society, driving the bodies and behavior of the sexes apart. But, as Hooven shows in T, it does so in concert with genes and culture to produce a vast variety of male and female behavior. And, crucially, the fact that many sex differences are grounded in biology provides no support for restrictive gender norms or patriarchal values. In understanding testosterone, we better understand ourselves and one another — and how we might build a fairer, safer society.