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A Future with No Gender

A Future with No Gender

In this TEDx Talk (2022), Prof. Daphna Joel challenges the gender binary social system, which assigns roles and expectations to people based on their sex organs. She describes a decade-long research project in which she and her team studied brain structure and psychological traits of over 20,000 people. The findings show that there are no “male” or “female” brains. Instead, each brain and each individual possesses a unique mosaic of feminine and masculine characteristics. Joel invites us to imagine a world with no gender, in which we could all celebrate our unique mosaics