Dr. Debra Soh is a neuroscientist who specializes in gender, sex, and sexual orientation. She received her doctorate from York University in Toronto and worked as an academic researcher for eleven years. Her writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Harper’s Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, Playboy, Quillette, and many other publications. Her research has been published in academic journals including the Archives of Sexual Behavior and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. As a journalist, Soh writes about the science and politics of human sexuality and gender, free speech, and censorship in academia. She lives in Toronto. Follow her on Twitter at @DrDebraSoh and visit her at DrDebraSoh.com.
"Strongly recommended. […] We need to support the fight-back."
—Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author of
The Selfish Gene
“[Soh’s] new book, The End of Gender, lays out with exceptional
care not just why we have got into the current impasse, but how we
might get out of it.”
—Douglas Murray, The London Times
“One of The End of Gender’s bravest themes comes in Soh’s
discussion of childhood gender dysphoria. […] Be brave like Debra
Soh.”
—Abigail Shrier, Commentary Magazine
“Throughout, Soh stresses that she sympathizes with
individuals who are struggling with their sexual identity, and
supports everyone’s right to determine what they believe is best
for them. She just expresses the hope that these crucial
decisions can be based on scientific fact, and shared through
authoritative, transparent, and safe platforms.”
—Booklist
"Dr. Debra Soh's book is not only eminently reasonable and
beautifully-written, it is brave and vital. Rooted in data but
accessible to the common person, this is the rare book that can
only be labeled 'must-read.'"
—Ben Shapiro, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Editor-in-Chief
of The Daily Wire, and Host of "The Ben Shapiro Show"
“By far the best I’ve read on this topic.”
—Michael Shermer, PhD, Presidential Fellow at Chapman University
and New York Times bestselling author of Giving the Devil His
Due
“Very, very good. Quite feminist, very liberal, highly
compassionate, thoroughly evidence-based, utterly reasonable.”
—Helen Pluckrose, editor in chief of Areo Magazine and
author of Cynical Theories
“An easy-to-read introduction to the various current debates over
sex, gender, and transgender. Soh also covers adjacent topics, such
[as] autogynephilia and research on the origins of sexual
orientation.”
—Ray Blanchard, PhD, Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University
of Toronto and researcher in sexual orientation, paraphilias, and
gender dysphoria
“[A] beautifully calm, rational and precision-guided dissection…her
exposé will fall like rain on parched earth.”
—Barbara Kay, The Post Millennial
"Sex and gender are always gripping topics, and The End of
Gender does not disappoint. Debra Soh has given us a lucid
explanation of the latest science and politics of men and women.
And she fearlessly pushes back against the notion that the only way
to advance equality is to scramble biology, language, and common
sense, and to intimidate anyone who doesn’t go along."
—Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard
University, and the author of The Blank
Slate and Enlightenment Now
"The longer that academic science suppresses its carefully
constructed knowledge about the biology of sex in deference to a
rapidly mutating set of political taboos, the less claim it will
have to public respect or attention. It is to be hoped
that Debra Soh’s The End of Gender inspires more
scientists to stand up to the ideological myths around sex and
gender in defense of scientific truth."
—Heather Mac Donald, Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan
Institute and author of The Diversity Delusion.
"There is no more treacherous topic on the current intellectual
landscape than the biological basis of gender. The fearless Dr.
Debra Soh is an expert guide navigating the jungle of umbrella
categories like "Trans" and "LGBTQx" to let us know how they are
informed by our scientific understanding of biology. If you are
genuinely interested beyond sloganeering about the eternal braid of
gender, sexuality and biology, then this book is required
reading."
—Eric R Weinstein, PhD, Managing Director at Thiel Capital and Host
of The Portal
"Debra Soh's clearly written book walks the reader through the
science and politics of sex and gender research. Her discussion is
accessible, balanced and thoughtful and will advance the study of
how biological and social factors interact in the development of
sex and gender."
—Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research
Centre at Cambridge University
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