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Phoenix Har

Phoenix Har

Dr. Phoenix Har is a historian of science and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah (Ethnic, Gender & Disability Studies), specializing in gender, queer theory, and biopolitics.

Sep 14, 2026

28:29
Good.
28:30
So grateful you asked me about it because this is my shtick.
28:34
This is my chance to stake my claim.
28:37
Okay, so when we're thinking about trans medicine in particular, we have certain anxieties that are deliberately transphobic.
28:49
Okay, so there are also two different ways of thinking about this.
28:57
It's really historians of science versus clinicians.
29:00
So a clinician is gonna talk about what are the numbers of intersex people there are in the world.

6 MINS LATER

35:23
So if sex is on a spectrum, but we've gotten into this idea, we've clung to this idea over time of a very binary understanding of sex, and it's very culturally dominant, what are your thoughts about the idea then that the way we're being socialized in alignment with that binary understanding into the gender roles and th- this idea that it's a construct, and what would it look like if it were not?

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