In this episode of Butterfly Arose I begin to go deeper into how we navigate the complex world of medicine.

Using the case of David Reimer, the boy who was raised as a girl, as a learning experience. Why did Dr. Money make this mistake, and what does it tells us about improving medical care?

Following up on Episode 8 I look into how the case of David Reimer, the boy who was raised as a girl, helps us understand the challenges of health care doctors and researchers in a complex world.

In this episode I talk about the case of a person whose life got caught up in a confluence of medical mistakes and errors that took place in a cultural space where sex and gender are surrounded by outdated belief systems.

My thoughts after reading the book Fixing Sex, Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience by Katrina Karkazis.

Learnings from the memoir Nobody Needs to Know by Pidgeon Pagonis.

Cultural beliefs can affect transgender people in negative ways. Here are thoughts from the perspective of one transwoman.

In this episode I talk about Frans de Waals research into sex and sexuality among nonhuman animals to help us understand ourselves.

In this episode I continue talking about what I am learning from the book Different, Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist, by Frans de Waal. It includes thoughts on how we sometimes don't see what is alive in the real world and how that can create errors in our thoeries or beiefs. I also talk aboout a female chmpanzee, Donna, whose life transgresses dualistic ideas about sex and gender.

The first of a series of episodes on biology and gender. Where does our gender identity come from and what is it?