VIDEO: Is Sex Binary?

A conversation with Alex Byrne and Holly Lawford-Smith

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April 19, 2024

On the evening of April 17, 2024, the MIT Free Speech Alliance, the Adam Smith Society, and Students for Free Inquiry hosted another Great Debate. This debate considers the question: Is sex binary? Prior to the debate, J. Scott Turner, Director of the Diversity in the Sciences Project at the National Association of Scholars, had a conversation with the team defending the "Yea" side, Alex Byrne, Professor of Philosophy at MIT, and Holly Lawford Smith, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne.

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