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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Kathleen Stock’s Reasoned Critique of Gender Ideology
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate, Dan Schwartz and Ben Bayer discuss British philosopher Kathleen Stock’s book Material Girls, in which Stock bravely challenges “gender identity theory,” the influential idea that gender is determined entirely by private feelings.
Among the topics covered:
The controversy over Stock’s opposition to gender self-identification laws in the UK;The case that an orthodoxy has formed around “gender identity theory;”The value of Stock’s book for different audiences;Stock’s argument that biological sex is real and essentially binary despite borderline cases;Why we need a concept of biological sex;Stock’s crit...