Debra Soh: The End of Gender
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro — who is Dr. Deborah Soh?
1:24 – Security threats at her live show in LA
3:22 – Online harassment and death threats — how she handles it
6:16 – Going from academia to public journalism
8:28 – How Lou first found her work (on an MMA show, naturally)
10:13 – Josh Barnett, Eric Weinstein, and the LA panel
12:30 – "Feminism in the Bedroom Can Leave Women Unfulfilled" — the Globe and Mail piece
15:08 – Evolutionary psychology and casual sex: what the science actually says
17:16 – Lou's post-breakup honesty problem
19:04 – Being upfront about what you want — the case for radical honesty in dating
22:08 – Paraphilias: what they are, where they come from, and brain imaging research
24:23 – Hypersexuality and impulse control — what the research actually shows
29:14 – Porn: entertainment, addiction, or impulse control disorder?
33:32 – Are lesbians morally obligated to date trans women? The ethics of sexual preference
39:08 – Trans activism and the limits of "trans women are women"
40:35 – JK Rowling: what she actually said and why she's not a monster
43:23 – Should children with gender dysphoria transition? What the research says
46:05 – The 41% suicide statistic — where it comes from and what it actually means
48:24 – The detransition wave: who's detransitioning and why
51:52 – Young women, autism, sexual trauma, and the path to transition
53:39 – Medical professionals, puberty blockers, and the Canada bill
55:50 – Big pharma ads vs. social media ideology — same dynamic, different pipeline
57:38 – Mental illness as identity: the victimhood economy and why it backfires
1:01:06 – Are we all just talking to the same people? The echo chamber problem
1:03:14 – Douglas Murray: "I just ruined something positive about him"
1:04:33 – Where to find Deborah and get the book
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Neuroscientist, journalist, and The End of Gender author Dr. Debra Soh joins Lou for the debut episode of The Lou Perez Podcast to talk about sex differences, evolutionary psychology, and gender dysphoria in children.
We also get into security threats at her live show in LA, how Lou found her work on an MMA show, feminism in the bedroom, radical honesty in dating, paraphilias and hypersexuality, whether porn is an addiction, the ethics of sexual preference, what JK Rowling actually said, the 41% suicide statistic, the detransition wave, puberty blockers and the Canada bill, and why science keeps getting caught in the crossfire of identity politics.