Gender identity made headlines in Ontario this week, after a Progressive Conservative resolution introduced at a weekend party convention called the theory a “highly controversial, unscientific ‘liberal ideology.’”
Ontario Premier Doug Ford quashed it days later, but behavioural neuroscientist Sari van Anders argues that the relationship between sex, gender and biology has long been understood to be more than a simple male-or-female binary.
“The idea of female and male brains is outdated and never reflected the science,” van Anders, the Canada 150 research chair in social neuroendocrinology, sexuality and gender/sex at Queen’s University, told Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald.
Giethoorn in Netherlands has no roads or any modern transportation at all, only canals. Well, and 176 bridges too. Tourists have to leave their cars outside of the village and travel here by foot or boat by. So you can probably imagine how peaceful it is here.