My friend Tulika Bose recently joined the team at Scientific American as their new multimedia editor. In a recent video piece, she spoke with historian Jules Gill-Peterson about how old junk science has been repurposed as anti-trans talking points.
It's a great and informative video about the messy history of "biological sex" definitions. Unfortunately, though perhaps unsurprisingly, it has lead to a bit of harassment against Bose as well:
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