Heather Heying
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8,492 appearances
15 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Heather Heying’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why those things don't work?
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And
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Males and females being different and immutable in humans is not
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Complex.
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Right.
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Like the the the trajectories, the the developmental and genetic and environmental features uh that create the situation of male and female in humans and indeed in all of mammals being immutable, th all of that is complex, of course.
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We got molecular pathways, we got cellular pathways, we got you know, it just it's it's it's
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inherently complex, but the conclusion that sex is binary and immutable in humans is not.
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And there has never been an ability to claim otherwise.
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There have been, you know, examples trotted forth from other clades in which hermaphrodites exist, and hermaphrodites do exist.
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And indeed, next week we may talk about avocados, which are extraordinary, right?
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Um and clownfish exist and slug specific banana slugs exist.
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And we have
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You know, simultaneous hermaphrodites and sequential hermaphrodites in various clades across the sexually reproducing organisms on this earth.
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And that's not anything that has ever happened in mammals, uh, in part, but this is sufficient.
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Uh this is uh this is this is a sufficient characterization to explain why this has never happened in mammals.
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We have genetic sex determination.
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XX individuals can't become XY or vice versa.
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Mm-hmm.
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And your argument is not, as you just laid it out, inherently about why it will never work, although that is also true.
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