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Yale researcher publishes bizarre paper claiming trans women (males) can get pregnant

The author argues that pregnancy is "a genre of political, aesthetic, and affective experience and expectation.”

Today, we cover a bizarre paper, “Transfeminist pregnancy: reproductive speculation, genre, and desire” from a Yale PhD candidate who argues that pregnancy is a “political” and “aesthetic” experience that biological males can also participate in. Yes, seriously.

We break down this bizarre paper in the latest episode of the Citation Needed podcast. Plus, we do a deep dive on “positionality statements,” the latest identitarian trend in academia that threatens the integrity of science itself.

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