136 / Pink Brain Blue Brain / Lise Eliot

I speak with Dr. Lise Eliot, Professor of Neuroscience at The Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University, and the author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps and What We Can Do About It.  In this interview, I tried to get to the root of what informs gender identity and its relationship to our biology, specifically regarding our neurology and brain development. The questions we explore in this episode include: What significant neurological differences exist between a “male” and “female” brain, especially at the time of birth? If differences exist, what role do these differences play in the development of individual traits—traits that may be categorized culturally as either “female” or “male” in nature?  How much is the development of an individual's gender identity associated with cultural, rather than biological, factors? // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/lise-eliot // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast