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Primates and Prejudice: with Dr. Frans de Waal

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Transgender and Sexuality in Other Primates

In other primates you can see that for example young females pay more attention to their mother when they imitate behavior. And so in that sense we can also speak of gender in the other primates. The big difference with us is that they don't worry about it there's no intolerance. I've never noticed that they have trouble with these individuals. They just accept them as they are. You see gender is kind of a spectrum, not any one thing we'd like to be reductive and reduce things into binary terms right AB? But you don't see it that way.

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