Transcript- Trans people are real — but so is biology
DOUGLAS MURRAY Trans people are real — but so is biology Turning sex into gender and gender to social construct has pitted the movement against science Douglas Murray Thursday August 27 2020, 5.00pm, The Times E arlier this week Sasha White was fired from her job working at a literary agency in New York. Her offence was writing comments on Twitter that the Tobias Literary Agency deemed anti-trans. As it happens Ms White would appear to be rather pro-trans. “Gender non-conformity is wonderful,” she says in her Twitter bio, “denying biological sex not so.” It is that second clause that got her into trouble. It has been extraordinary watching the trans debate play out over recent years. But too rarely does anyone stop to acknowledge the underlying causes. I have tried to perform some of this delicate surgery in my own recent book. Happily more and more people are doing the same. Notably the neuroscientist Dr Debra Soh. Her new book, The End of Gender , lays out with exceptiona...