Dr Frans de Waal Unboxing | What Apes Teach Us About Gender & Human Behaviour
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I Want to Be a Woman, I Can't.
In bellobos and chimpanzees, in addition to the males having big canine teeth, which the females don't have. In humans that has disappeared, that difference has disappeared. But society is now teaching that if a boy wants to be a woman, he can be a woman. Do you find that there is any issue with that? Like if I want to be a female, I can try and transition? It's not so much that you want to be. These kids, the tons of kids, it's not that they want to bea female. They feel that they are a female or so they are born as a boy.
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