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Carole Hooven vs. transgender people

Carole Hooven is an American anthropologist and sex segregationist whose work focuses on maintaining a sex binary. Hooven espouses the “gametic” view of sex and criticizes those who assert that sex is a biocultural construct.

Hooven is a nonresident senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute and has written for many anti-trans publications, including The Free Press, Tablet, and Quillette.

Hooven is a member of Academic Freedom Alliance and an advisor to the Society for Open Inquiry in Behavioral Science.

Hooven has participated in a number of anti-trans conferences, including:

Hooven frequently defends and collaborates with other gender critical public figures, including spouse Alex Byrne, a philosopher and anti-trans activist. In 2023, Hooven signed an open letter by Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism defending anti-trans extremist Kenneth Zucker after International Academy of Sex Research opened an investigation into how Zucker’s journal Archives of Sexual Behavior published a retracted article on “rapid onset gender dysphoria,” by “Suzanna Diaz” (aka Monica Hegmann) and J. Michael Bailey.

Background

Carole Kennedy Hooven was born on February 18, 1966. Hooven earned a bachelor’s degree from Antioch College in 1988 and a doctorate from Harvard University in 2004. There, Hooven taught a popular undergraduate course on behavioral endocrinology, the study of connections between hormones and behavior. Hooven was also co-director of Harvard’s undergraduate program in Human Evolutionary Biology.

Hooven co-authored the 2013 book Meta-Emotion: How Families Communicate Emotionally.

Hooven married anti-trans philosopher Alex Byrne and has one child, Griffin.

Anti-transgender activism

Hooven is the author of the 2021 book T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us. The popular science book examines the science, history, and social implications of testosterone. Hooven argues that testosterone plays a significant role in shaping many average differences within a sex binary, particularly in physical strength, competitiveness, aggression, risk-taking, and sexual behavior. Hooven rejects the idea that biology completely determines behavior, noting that culture, environment, and personal choices also shape human actions. Hooven argues that understanding biological differences does not undermine the principle of equal rights. Much of the book explores debates about sex, gender, and equality, framing those debates as in conflict with “science” instead of what they actually are: a debate within science about reducing bias and refining scientific definitions.

In 2020, Abigail Shrier scored a major coup by launching the anti-trans book Irreversible Damage on The Joe Rogan Experience. Hooven followed suit in June 2021 for the launch of T. That appearance with Joe Rogan was followed by dozens of interviews on the usual anti-trans programs in the following years.

On July 27, 2021. Hooven was featured in a Free Press article by Katie Herzog that claimed medical schools “are now denying biological sex.” Hooven stated:

“Today’s students will go on to hold professional positions that give them a great deal of power over others’ bodies and minds. These young people are our future doctors, educators, researchers, statisticians, psychologists. To ignore or downplay the reality of sex and sex-based differences is to perversely handicap our understanding and our ability to increase human health and thriving.”

The following day, Hooven appeared on Fox News to reiterate these claims. On July 30, 2021, Hooven’s colleague Laura Simone Lewis, Director of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force for the Harvard Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, posted in part on X:

“I am appalled and frustrated by the transphobic and harmful remarks made by a member of my dept in this interview with Fox and Friends. Let’s be clear: if you respect diverse gender identities & aim to use correct pronouns, then you would know that people with diverse genders/sexes can be pregnant incl Trans men, intersex people & gender nonconforming people. That isn’t too hard for medical students to understand. Inclusive language like “pregnant people” demonstrates respect for EVERYONE who has the ability to get pregnant, not just cis women. It is vital to teach med students gender inclusive language, as they will certainly interact with people that identify outside the gender binary. I respect Carole as a colleague & scientist. But this dangerous language perpetuates a system of discrimination against non-cis people within the med system. It directly opposes our Task Force work that aims to create a safe space for scholars of ALL gender identities and sexes.”

Lewis received significant backlash on X from anti-trans activists, and Lewis’ statement was covered in anti-trans media.

In 2022 Dartmouth political science professor Henry C. Clark arranged an event with Hooven, Jesse Singal, and Katie Herzog. After the event was cancelled, the event was moved to New York. An additional event with Singal was later arranged at MIT by Hooven’s spouse Alex Byrne.

Following the backlash, Hooven stated: “Eventually I was diagnosed with severe major depression, which included intrusive, persistent, and unwanted suicidal thoughts. I began seeing a therapist and was prescribed medication.” Hooven reduced administrative roles and was unable to find graduate students who would agree to serve as teaching fellows for Hooven’s signature behavioral endocrinology course. In January 2023, Hooven retired from Harvard, but key anti-trans activist Steven Pinker gave Hooven an unpaid associate position in Harvard’s psychology department. Later that year Hooven was appointed as a nonresident senior fellow at the anti-trans American Enterprise Institute.

Hooven gave a blurb for the 2023 anti-trans book Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader:

Edited collections of academic essays are often hit-and-miss. A good collection has 50% decent essays; an excellent collection, which is rare, has 80%. I have now finished reading all of the essays in Sex and Gender, edited by Sullivan and Todd. There are 14 essays and an editors’ introduction. Every single one of the contributions is excellent. It is an unusual collection of absolutely first-rate work covering science, social sciences, and humanities. The sex/gender debate is very heated, to say the least. This book shines a great deal of light on the issues. The essays are all clearly written, and will appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist.

In 2023, Hooven was scheduled to speak at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) annual joint conference on a panel titled “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology.” Planned panelists were:

Below is an excerpt from their description of the panel:

While it has become increasingly common in anthropology and public life to substitute ‘sex’ with ‘gender’, there are multiple domains of research in which biological sex remains irreplaceably relevant to anthropological analysis. Contesting the transition from sex to gender in anthropological scholarship deserves much more critical consideration than it has hitherto received in major diciplinary fora like AAA / CASCA. This diverse international panel brings together scholars from socio-cultural anthropology, archaeology, and biological anthropology who describe why in their work gender is not helpful and only sex will do. This is particularly the case when the work is concerned with equity and the deep analysis of power, and which has as an aim the achievement of genuine inclusivity. With research foci from hominin evolution to contemporary artificial intelligence, from the anthropology of education to the debates within contemporary feminism about surrogacy, panelists make the case that while not all anthropologists need to talk about sex, baby, some absolutely do.

[…] Sex identification—whether an individual was male or female – using the skeleton is one of the most fundamental components in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. Anthropologists have improved their ability to determine sex since their initial studies on skeletal remains, which depended on subjective assessment of skeletal robusticity to say whether someone was male or female. An understanding of physical differences in the pelvis related to childbirth, hormonal impacts on bones, and extensive comparative studies have provided anthropologists with an array of traits, such as those in the Phenice Method, to determine sex using just bones. The use of DNA to identify sex in skeletons by their 23rd chromosomes enables anthropologists to say whether infants are male or female for use in both criminal abuse cases and archaeological cases, such as in recognizing infanticide practices. Anthropologists’ ability to determine whether a skeleton is male or female is not dependent on time or culture; the same traits can be used to make a sex estimate in a forensic case in Canada, or to estimate sex in a Paleoindian dated around 11,500 years ago in Brazil. As anthropologists study more remains from more cultures and time periods, sex identification has improved, because sex differences are biologically determined. In forensics, however, anthropologists should be (and are) working on ways to ensure that skeletal finds are identified by both biological sex and their gender identity, which is essential due to the current rise in transitioning individuals and their overrepresentation as crime victims.

Following outcry, the panel was canceled by AAA and CASCA, which released a joint statement titled “No Place For Transphobia in Anthropology.” In response, Heterodox Academy convened the panel on November 8, 2023.

At a Congressional hearing on December 5, 2023, Congressmember Tim Wahlberg (R-MI) cited Hooven’s experiences at Harvard, stating “Carole Hooven, an evolutionary biologist, was forced to resign, because she stated that a person’s sex is biological and binary.” That day, Hooven posted in part on X:

“I want to be clear that @Harvard did not fire me. They did not “remove me” from my position. Another person in the same situation might have stayed on, but I could not. The fact is that I did not feel that I could do my job any longer, and I did feel pushed out; but that is not the same as actually being forced out. First, my mental health was deteriorating rapidly; and second, it seemed apparent that I would not be supported in pursuing my teaching, research and writing, given the lack of public support from my department and Harvard administrators in response to public attacks on my character. (And I could not even teach my lecture course, since for the first time in 20 years, no grad students would agree to serve as my teaching assistants.)”

In 2025, Hooven was a participant in the Censorship in the Sciences conference. Hooven’s event was titled “Censorship Around Gender Research and Medicine,” chaired by Sally Satel and also including Diana Blum and Michael Bailey.

Also in 2025, Hooven participated in The Unspeakeasy in NYC: A Small Gathering for Big Ideas hosted by Meghan Daum. Other announced guests were Ben Appel, Lisa Selin Davis, Andrew Hartz, Rob Henderson, John McWhorter, Peter Moskos, Alana Newhouse, and Mike Pesca.

In October 2025, the Journal of Controversial Ideas published a special issue related to the Censorship in the Sciences event. Hooven contributed the chapter “Why I Left Harvard” for the 2025 anti-trans book The War on Science, edited by Lawrence Krauss.

On a personal website, Hooven stated: “I am working on a new book about the biological bases of differences in male and female sensitivities to cultural changes, and how this information can help support young men in particular.”

Media appearances

Hooven frequently appears in gender critical and anti-transgender media to defend sex segregation and criticize refinement of value-neutral language in science:

Additional appearances include:

  • Brad Carr (2026)
  • T. Hasan Johnson (2025)
  • Peter Attiah (2025)
  • TED (2024)
  • Unfiltered Extra with Joe Warner (2024)
  • NewsNation / Vargas Reports with Elizabeth Vargas (2023)
  • Freedom Pact with Joseph Newton, and Lewis Edward (2023)
  • Art of Manliness with Brett & Kate McKay (2022)
  • Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson (2022)
  • The Jordan Harbinger Show with Jordan Harbinger (2022)
  • Reason with Science with Jitender Kumar (2022)
  • Newstalk / Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea (2022)
  • The Session with Tom Swarbrick (2022)
  • Minding the Brain with Jim Davies and Kim Hellemans (2022)
  • Harvard Museum of Natural History with Daniel Gilbert (2021)
  • Converging Dialogues with Xavier Bonilla (2021)
  • Intelligence Squared with Tom Wjipple (2021)
  • Mind Pump Show with Sal Di Stefano. Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews (2021)
  • Richard Reeves Show with Richard Reeves (2021)
  • The Dissenter with Ricardo Lopes (2021)
  • ManTalks with Connor Beaton (2021)
  • Deseret News / Institute for Family Studies / Family Matters with Brad Wilcox (2021)
  • Converging Dialogues with Xavier Bonilla (2021)
  • Andy Rowe Show with Andy Rowe (2021)
  • Sigma Nutrition with Danny Lennon (2021)
  • Rewired Soul with Chris Boutté (2021)

Hooven has been interviewed and featured in outlets including Talk Radio Europe

References

Gorman, Sara; Gorman, Jack M. (June 29, 2024). The Debate About Sex Assigned at Birth. Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/denying-to-the-grave/202406/the-debate-about-sex-assigned-at-birth

Staff report (December 13, 2023). Transcript: What Harvard, MIT and Penn presidents said at antisemitism hearing. Roll Call https://rollcall.com/2023/12/13/transcript-what-harvard-mit-and-penn-presidents-said-at-antisemitism-hearing/

Mediavilla, Daniel (September 30, 2022). Carole Hooven: ‘It’s obvious that men are much more driven by sex than women.’ El País https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-09-30/carole-hooven-its-obvious-that-men-are-much-more-driven-by-sex-than-women.html

Robinson, Andrew (September 30, 2021). Transformative hydrogen and wrestling with testosterone: Books in brief. Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02676-3

Powell, Alvin (September 17, 2021). How a hormone affects society. The Harvard Gazette https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/09/harvard-biologist-discusses-testosterones-role-in-society/

Xu, Meimei (August 12, 2021). Biology Lecturer’s Comments on Biological Sex Draw Backlash. Harvard Crimson https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/8/11/biology-lecturer-gender-comments-backlash/

Linden, Eugene (August 19, 2002). The Wife Beaters of Kibale. TIME https://time.com/vault/issue/2002-08-19/page/58/

Anti-trans coverage

O’Leary, Denyse (October 21, 2025). In the War on Reality, a Biologist Became a Casualty. Science & Culture Today https://scienceandculture.com/2025/10/in-the-war-on-reality-a-biologist-became-a-casualty/

McLaughlin, Madelynn (September 11, 2025). Princeton professor’s ‘Sex is a Spectrum’ book sparks academic freedom debate. The College Fix https://www.thecollegefix.com/princeton-professors-sex-is-a-spectrum-book-sparks-academic-freedom-debate/

Satel, Sally (August 1, 2025). Social Justice Encroachment into Medicine. American Enterprise Institute https://www.aei.org/articles/social-justice-encroachment-into-medicine/

Billen, Andrew (August 1, 2025). The ex-Harvard professor ‘off the leash’ on the trans debate. The Times https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/ex-harvard-professor-trans-debate-2cw0r6spf

Coyne, Jerry (February 20, 2025). From the Boston Globe: Carole Hooven explains the binary nature of sex (and other stuff). Why Evolution Is True https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/02/20/from-the-boston-globe-carole-hooven-explains-the-binary-nature-of-sex-and-other-stuff/

Foley, Ryan (April 8, 2024). MIT, Harvard professors admonish use of ‘sex assigned at birth.’ Christian Post https://www.christianpost.com/news/mit-harvard-professors-criticize-sex-assigned-at-birth.html

Schuessler, Jennifer (February 16, 2024). The Fight Over Academic Freedom. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/arts/academic-freedom-harvard-universities.html

Zimmerman, Jonathan (January 4, 2024). Harvard’s real problem? The lack of academic freedom for diverse perspectives. Philadelphia Inquirer https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resignation-carole-hooven-academic-freedom-20240104.html

Smith, Emma (December 27, 2023). Transgender chess decision: New Fide rules criticised by players but welcomed by committee chair. BBC https://www.bbc.com/sport/67127168 audio https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xmyv

Mounk, Yascha (December 8, 2023). The Universities That Don’t Understand Academic Freedom. The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/harvard-mit-upenn-free-speech-congressional-hearings/676278/

Stephens, Bret (December 8, 2023). Campus Antisemitism, Free Speech and Double Standards. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/opinion/antisemitism-college-free-speech.html

Ackman, Bill (December 3, 2023). [Message to Harvard President Claudine Gay]. https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1731532031048245631

Coyne, Jerry (November 11, 2022). The cancellation of Carole Hooven. Why Evolution Is True https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/11/11/the-cancellation-of-carole-hooven/

Powell, Michael (May 29, 2022). Much Debate but Little Dialogue on Transgender Female Athletes. [alternately titled “What Lia Thomas Could Mean for Women’s Elite Sports.”] New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/us/lia-thomas-women-sports.html

Hunt, K. D. (2022). Critical theory, evolutionary theory, and testosterone. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 32(1), 54–61. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21960

Kennedy, Dana (April 2, 2022). Moms fight for female athletes amid Lia Thomas controversy. New York Post https://nypost.com/2022/04/02/moms-fight-for-female-athletes-amid-lia-thomas-controversy/

Roney, J. R. (December 11, 2021). Carole Hooven, Review of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone That Dominates and Divides Us. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 9(1), 470–473. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoab043

Herzog, Katie (July 27, 2021). Med schools are now denying biological sex. Common Sense [now The Free Press] https://www.thefp.com/p/med-schools-are-now-denying-biological original url https://www.commonsense.news/p/med-schools-are-now-denying-biological

Bailey, Pippa (September 1, 2021). Reviewed in short: New books from Carole Hooven, Kristian Shaw, Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Jay Parini. New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2021/09/reviewed-in-short-new-books-from-carole-hooven-kristian-shaw-lucia-osborne-crowley-and-jay-parini

Slattery, Luke (August 8, 2021). Battle of the sexes is a war no one can win. The Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/battle-of-the-sexes-is-a-war-no-one-can-win/news-story/8b7b53c430c16a83b25c04c1be25127b

Lewis, Harry (August 1, 2021). “Pregnant women.” Bits and Pieces https://harry-lewis.blogspot.com/2021/08/pregnant-women.html

Levine, Jon (July 31, 2021). Harvard lecturer blasted by colleague for defending existence of biological sex. New York Post https://nypost.com/2021/07/31/harvard-lecturer-blasted-for-defending-existence-of-biological-sex/

Ritchie, Stuart (July 30, 2021). Testosterone by Carole Hooven review – faster, higher and angrier. The Times https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/testosterone-by-carole-hooven-review-pdm5rvvjk?region=global

Alexander, Harriet (July 30, 2021). Harvard professor who refuses to use the term ‘pregnant people’ and insists on ‘woman’ is accused of transphobia by her woke Ivy League colleague. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-9845639/Harvard-evolutionary-biology-prof-blasted-diversity-chief-dismissing-term-pregnant-people.html

Herzog, Katie (July 27, 2021). Med Schools Are Now Denying Biological Sex. The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/med-schools-are-now-denying-biological

Cain, Hamilton (July 12, 2021). T Review: Hormone of the Hour. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/t-testosterone-review-hormone-of-the-hour-11626127657

Spitznagel, Eric (July 10, 2021). Trans women athletes have unfair advantage over those born female: testosterone. New York Post https://nypost.com/2021/07/10/trans-women-athletes-have-unfair-advantage-over-those-born-female/

Scharfenberg, David (July 9, 2021). Does testosterone matter? A new book examines ‘the hormone that dominates and divides us.’ Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/09/opinion/does-testosterone-matter/

O’Malley, Stella (June 25, 2021). Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Dr Carole Hooven review: Dr Carole Hooven has written the definitive book on testosterone. The Standard https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/books/testosteronedr-carole-hooven-review-b941337.html

Byrne, Alex (November 1, 2018). Is Sex Binary? Arc Digital https://medium.com/arc-digital/is-sex-binary-16bec97d161e

Selected writing by Hooven

Hooven, Carole (September 24, 2025). There Are Only Two Gametes. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/there-are-only-two-gametes

Hooven, Carole; Fine, Cordelia (April 8, 2025). Does testosterone make men? Aeon https://aeon.co/essays/a-psychologist-and-biologist-debate-the-significance-of-testosterone

Hooven, Carole (February 20, 2025). Don’t let anyone confuse you: There really are only two sexes. Trump is right about the science of sex. That doesn’t mean he’s got the right policies on gender. Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/opinion/trump-executive-order-two-sexes/

Hooven, Carole (2024). Why I Left Harvard. In Krauss, Lawrence [editor] The War on Science. Post Hill Press, ISBN 979-8888457566

Byrne, Alex; Hooven, Carole K. (April 3, 2024). Opinion | The Problem With Saying ‘Sex Assigned at Birth.’ New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/opinion/sex-assigned-at-birth.html

Hooven, Carole (March 22, 2024). Why Do Men Dominate Chess? Quillette https://quillette.com/2024/03/22/why-do-men-dominate-chess/

Hooven, Carole (January 16, 2024). Carole Hooven: Why I Left Harvard. The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/carole-hooven-why-i-left-harvard

Hooven, Carole (June 21, 2023). Academic Freedom Is Social Justice. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/academic-freedom-social-justice

Hooven, C. K., Wai, J., Kievit, R., Ellison, P. T., Kosslyn, S. M., & Chabris, C. F. (2023). The Sex Difference in Mental Rotation Test Scores May Not Reflect a Difference in Mental Rotation Ability. Center for Open Science https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/u39bw full text https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/u39bw_v1

Hooven, C.K. (2022). Academic Freedom Is Social Justice: Sex, Gender, and Cancel Culture on Campus. Archives of Sexual Behavior https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02467-5

Hooven, Carole (July 12, 2021). How understanding testosterone will help you understand yourself (and everyone around you) better. Stylist https://www.stylist.co.uk/books/how-testosterone-effects-us/535440

Hooven, Carole (June 28, 2021). The real reason men are more likely to cheat? Science has the answers. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/mind/real-reason-men-likely-cheat-science-has-answers/

Hooven, Carole (November 4, 2016). The Real Problem With Power Posing Isn’t the Data. Slate https://slate.com/technology/2016/11/power-posings-real-problem-is-with-hormones-not-data.html

McIntyre, Matthew H.; Hooven, Carole K. (2012). Human Sex Differences in Social Relationships: In Ellison, Peter T.; Gray, Peter B. [editors]. Endocrinology of Social Relationships (pp. 225–245). Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0674031173. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv22jnsp8.13

Yang, C.-F. J., Hooven, C. K., Boynes, M., Gray, P. B., & Pope, H. G., Jr. (2007). Testosterone levels and mental rotation performance in Chinese men. Hormones and Behavior, 51(3), 373–378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.12.005

Hooven, C. (2004). The relationship of male testosterone to components of mental rotation. Neuropsychologia, 42(6), 782–790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.11.012

Hooven, Carole (2004). Shifting the image of male superiority in spatial ability: an examination of sex differences in mental rotation. [doctoral dissertation]

Books

Hooven, Carole (2021). T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us. Henry Holt and Co., ISBN 978-1250236067

Gottman, John Mordechai; Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Hooven, Carole (2013). Meta-Emotion: How Families Communicate Emotionally. Routledge, ISBN 978-1134795901

Media

American Enterprise Institute with Sally Satel, Cory Clark, Alex Byrne, Carole Hooven, and Christina Hoff Sommers (May 27, 2026). Has Science Become Feminized? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNT0ozJfpOc

Brad Carr with Carole Hooven (May 18, 2026). The Brutal Truth About Male Sexual Competition – Dr Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-91mxUutgM

Dr. T. Hasan Johnson with Carole Hooven (December 8, 2025). Black Men vs False Accusations in the Era of Feminization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohZsfzK69qQ

The Drive with Peter Attia and Carole Hooven (December 1, 2025). 374 – The evolutionary biology of testosterone: male development & sex-based behavioral differences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-LTW3c5vc

Conversations with Coleman with Coleman Hughes and Carole Hooven (November 3, 2025). Kicked Out of Harvard for Speaking Truth on Gender | Biologist Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbmsPY8NEEo

The Dispatch with Jonah Goldberg and Carole Hooven (August 21, 2025). Gender and Sex | Interview: Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rECrbAa1sTQ

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss and Carole Hooven (August 3, 2025). Biologist Canceled at Harvard for Defending Science | Carole Hooven & Lawrence Krauss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl3ktvCP9P0

The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum and Carole Hooven (July 14, 2025). Do Women Owe Men An Apology? with Dr. Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sab1VocacM8

Heterodox Academy / Censorship in the Sciences with Carole Hooven (February 1, 2025). Carole Hooven: Stay away from Sex at Harvard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I9gP–0tXM

TED with Carole Hooven (September 2, 2024). How Testosterone and Culture Shape Behavior | Carole K. Hooven | TED. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYnZy2Cx7UM

University of Richmond Jepson School of Leadership Studies with Carole Hooven (February 12, 2024). The Non-Toxic Nature of Masculinity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe2J24ZDT2g

Unfiltered Extra with Joe Warner and Carole Hooven (February 7, 2024). Dr Carole Hooven: The toxic masculinity movement is damaging boys and young men. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ByXg8ZUYM

Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan and Carole Hooven (January 5, 2024). Carole Hooven On Harvard’s Existential Crisis. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/carole-hooven-on-harvards-existential

NewsNation / Vargas Reports with Elizabeth Vargas and Carole Hooven (December 12, 2023). Former Harvard prof.: Free speech ‘hypocrisy’ on campuses ‘shocking’ | Vargas Reports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl-CMWmZG94

Newsmax / RepWahlberg (December 7, 2023). NEWSMAX: Walberg Questions Harvard President on Selective Belief in First Amendment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1TuGUhc4X0

Heterodox Academy with John Tomasi and Carole Hooven (November 29, 2023). Why Biological Sex is Real with Carole Hooven | Ep 04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5wc7AsvOPk

American Council of Trustees and Alumni (November 7, 2023). [Hero of Intellectual Freedom Award speech] Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSj3OlbXkSg

American Council of Trustees and Alumni / Higher Ed Now with Steven McGuire and Carole Hooven (September 18, 2023). Carole Hooven: Cancelled for Scientific Accuracy. https://www.goacta.org/2023/09/carole-hooven-cancelled-for-scientific-accuracy/

The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman and Carole Hooven (March 9, 2023). The Science of Testosterone || Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIUUU91ISME

Freedom Pact with Joseph Newton, Lewis Edward, and Carole Hooven (March 3, 2023). Dr Carole Hooven Interview On Testosterone, Harvard Cancellation, NoFap & More. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSCkzD1CbM

Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson and Carole Hooven (October 27, 2022). What Makes Men And Women Different? – Dr Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q14k3yZ2EU

Razib Khan’s Unsupervised Learning with Razib Khan and Carole Hooven (October 17, 2022). Carole Hooven: Let’s talk about Testosterone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNbHiAp3zRY

Dr Phil with Phil McGraw, Layne Ingram, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Riley Gaines, and Carole Hooven (October 7, 2022). Transgender Athletes: The After Show Conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJbAWlbYOlU

The Jordan Harbinger Show with Jordan Harbinger and Carole Hooven (July 20, 2022). Harvard Biologist on Accepting Gender Differences | Carole Hooven Ep. 694. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9oFKThjss

ICONS – Independent Council on Women’s Sports with Ross Tucker, Emma Hilton, and Carole Hooven (July 6, 2022). The Science of Sport, Fair Competition & Testosterone – ICONS Conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDsQdvr_1e0

Reason with Science with Jitender Kumar and Carole Hooven (April 15, 2022). Science of testosterone | Carole Hooven | Reason with Science | Hormones | Human behavior | Harvard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYqz5OYMvRI

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce, Helena Kerschner, and Carole Hooven (April 5, 2022). Testosterone! The Science, The Experience | with Carole Hooven & Helena Kerschner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2aJpxGUTm4

Heterodorx with Nina Paley, Corinna Cohn, and Carole Hooven (January 27, 2022). Episode 43: Carole Hooven. https://heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-43-carole-hooven/

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce and Carole Hooven (January 6, 2022). Getting Hormonal | with Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQbHxxVzTAY

BBC / The Spark with Helen Lewis and Carole Hooven (December 23, 2021). Carole Hooven and testosterone. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012fwc

Keep Talking with Dan Riley (October 25, 2021). Episode 20: Carole Hooven – T: The Story of Testosterone.

Harvard Museum of Natural History with Daniel Gilbert and Carole Hooven (October 25, 2021). Testosterone: The Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbMjHLpc0Sc

Transparency with Aaron Kimberly and Aaron Terrell (October 2, 2021). EP 11 – Carole Hooven – Testosterone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkamP4MHJ-U

Skeptic / The Michael Shermer Show with Michael Shermer and Carole Hooven (August 28, 2021). Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulixP2EAHZM

Converging Dialogues with Xavier Bonilla and Carole Hooven (August 24, 2021). #66 – Testosterone: Understanding Without Judgment: A Dialogue with Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95OIdsV59Rc

The Royal Instituteion with Carole Hooven (August 17, 2021). [Livestream event] Testosterone. https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/testosterone [archive]

Savage Lovecast with Dan Savage and Carole Hooven (August 17, 2021). Let’s Talk About Testosterone. With Dr. Carole Hooven. https://savage.love/lovecast/2021/08/17/lets-talk-about-testosterone-with-dr-carole-hooven/

Gender: A Wider Lens with Sasha Ayad, Stella O’Malley, and Carole Hooven (August 13, 2021). EPISODE 36 – Talking Testosterone with Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zny2VTKyqB8

Intelligence Squared with Tom Wjipple and Carole Hooven (August 5, 2021). Testosterone: Debunking the Myths with Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8ebScezwc

Blocked and Reported with Jesse Singal, Katie Herzog, and Carole Hooven (August 5, 2021). Episode 76: Let’s Do Hate Speech By Talking About How Biological Sex Is A Binary (With Carole Hooven). https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-76-lets-do-hate-speech-by-83b

The Same Drugs with Meghan Murphy and Carole Hooven (August 2, 2021). The Same Drugs: Carole Hooven on testosterone and the male body. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltBhz3tZbwA

Sky News Australia with Rita Panahi (August 1, 2021). Harvard biology professor refusing to use term ‘pregnant people’ attacked for transphobia.

Mind Pump Show with Sal Di Stefano. Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, and Carole Hooven (August 1, 2021). 1610: Testosterone… The Hormone That Divides Us with Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIn–aW_NE

Honestly with Bari Weiss and Carole Hooven (July 29, 2021). Bigger, Stronger, Faster: The Truth About Testosterone. https://www.thefp.com/p/bigger-stronger-faster-the-truth-d7f

Fox and Friends (July 28, 2021). ‘Woke’ medical school students challenge male, female terminology. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6265580505001

The Richard Reeves Show with Richard Reeves with Carole Hooven (July 19, 2021). Carole Hooven on testosterone and masculinity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJFQI_-EzXc

Book TV with Charis Books and Carole Hooven (July 13, 2021). T. https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/t/596517

The Dissenter with Ricardo Lopes and Carole Hooven (July 12, 2021). #494 Carole Hooven – T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ormlF1fhEMg

The Femsplainers with Danielle Crittenden and Carole Hooven (July 1, 2021). Dr. Carole Hooven: Do Men Have a Bigger Libido Than Women? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9xI_XhaQ64

Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan and Carole Hooven (June 18, 2021). Carole Hooven On Testosterone. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/carole-hooven-on-testosterone

The Joe Rogan Experience with Joe Rogan and Carole Hooven (June 10, 2021, uploaded June 27, 2024). Joe Rogan Experience #1665 – Carole Hooven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQJv1zfzRc8

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