Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. From the stage to everyday life, theater educator Jo Michael Rezes studies queer identity and the spectrum of gender […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. In much of the world, gender is viewed as binary: man or woman, each assigned characteristics and traits designated […]
Did you know that almost 150 million people worldwide are born intersex — with biology that doesn't fit the standard definition of male or female? (That's as many as the population of Russia.) At age […]
How exactly does gender work? It's not just about our chromosomes, says biologist Karissa Sanbonmatsu. In a visionary talk, she shares new discoveries from epigenetics, the emerging study of how DNA activity can permanently change […]
Paula Stone Williams knew from a young age that she was transgender. But as she became a parent and prominent evangelical pastor, she feared that coming out would mean losing everything. In this moving, deeply […]
In a poetic, personal talk, TED Fellow Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile examines the connection between her modern queer lifestyle and her childhood upbringing in a rural village in Botswana. "In a time where being brown, queer, African […]
LB Hannahs candidly shares the experience of parenting as a genderqueer individual — and what it can teach us about authenticity and advocacy. "Authenticity doesn't mean 'comfortable.' It means managing and negotiating the discomfort of […]
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