Debra Soh

International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this research-based, scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity. Is our gender something we’re born with, or are we conditioned by society? In The End of Gender, neuroscientist and sexologist Dr. Debra Soh uses a research-based approach to address this hot-button topic, unmasking popular misconceptions about the nature vs. nurture debate and exploring what it means to be a woman or a man in today’s society. Both scientific and objective, and drawing on original research and carefully conducted interviews, Soh tackles a wide range of issues, such as gender-neutral parenting, gender dysphoric children, and and the neuroscience of being transgender. She debates today’s accepted notion that gender is a social construct and a spectrum, and challenges the idea that there is no difference between how male and female brains operate. The End of Gender is a conversation-starting work that will challenge what you thought you knew about gender, identity, and everything in between. Timely, informative, and provocative, it will arm you with the facts you need to come to your own conclusions about gender identity and its place in the world today.

Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society

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The hypocrisy of transgender activism is palpable. The same people who will argue (as we should) against involuntary intersex surgeries, based on the understanding that young children do not possess the mental capacity to consent to invasive surgeries, will argue that an eight-year-old has the emotional maturity to begin the medical process of identifying as the opposite sex. Physicians won’t even allow adult women to make a decision about tying their tubes or having a hysterectomy until they are in their thirties.

Is this something that is a little bit like some of the things you get obsessed with, or is this something that’s going to be necessary for the rest of your life?

Transitioning is no longer a medical consideration; it has become an identity.

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