What happens when an evolutionary biologist examines gender theory through the lens of 4 million years of human evolution? Gary Clark's journey from living with Aboriginal peoples in Australia's Western Desert to studying sexual dimorphism in ancient fossils reveals how post-modern theorists claiming to "deconstruct" Western ideas are actually imposing them. As major universities embrace the notion that biology is "right-wing," Clark watches academia deny the very sex-based differences that structure every known human society. From his unique vantage point spanning primatology, paleoanthropology, and Jungian psychology, this scientist explains why denying biological sex isn't progressive—it's anti-scientific.
About Gary Clark
Dr. Gary Clark is a paleoanthropologist and evolutionary biologist who studies human evolution through fossil anatomy and sexual dimorphism. Having lived and worked with Aboriginal peoples in Australia's Western Desert, he brings both scientific rigor and cross-cultural perspective to debates about sex and gender. Author of Carl Jung and the Evolutionary Sciences, Clark challenges both gender theorists and his fellow Jungians to ground their ideas in biological reality.
"I'm Marxist in Orientation"—So Why Am I Called Right-Wing?
"I wouldn't say I'm a Marxist, but I'm kind of Marxist in orientation, quite left wing in my outlook." Yet when Clark teaches sexual dimorphism, he's "accused of being a reactionary conservative and a bigot." The crime? Believing biological sex exists. "When you say biology, they hear conservative reactionary," Clark explains. Gender theorists have created a world where acknowledging basic mammalian biology makes you politically suspect. The confusion runs so deep that humanities scholars can't imagine "biological differences that a left wing person might think are important."
Sister Boys in the Desert
Teaching among the Pintupi people 400 kilometers west of Alice Springs, Clark encountered "sister boys"—gender nonconforming males who "sit in the back of the class plaiting the girl's hair." These musically talented boys existed in communities with only "one or two generations" of contact with white culture. Were they evidence of fluid gender? No. They were males exhibiting female-typical behaviors within strict boundaries of "men's business and women's business." Natural variation doesn't erase sex—it confirms it.
The Fa'afafine Discovery That Changes Everything
Paul Vasey's research reveals something explosive: "Because they're accepted within their culture and there is this space for gender nonconforming males, they tend not to develop gender dysphoria." If gender dysphoria is "sociogenic"—culturally induced—then "we're treating a sociogenic phenomenon or culturally induced phenomenon with medicalization of the body." More acceptance of gender nonconformity might prevent dysphoria. Instead, we're surgically altering healthy bodies to treat cultural distress.
Evolution's Plot Twist: The "Feminized" Male Brain
The biggest difference between humans and our great ape cousins isn't tool use—it's fatherhood. "The oxytocin system is up regulated in the male brain," Clark explains. When men hold newborns, their brains act like "typical female mammalian brains," releasing the same bonding hormones that connect mothers to infants. This isn't social construction—it's millions of years of evolution creating human fatherhood. Jung called this integration of the feminine "the anima." Science calls it adaptive.
The Norwegian Paradox Proves Biology Wins
Give people maximum freedom and sex differences increase. In egalitarian Norway, women choose nursing while men pick engineering. When "people are given more choice through increased economic opportunities, the differences don't go away, they might actually increase." Social systems can exploit sex differences, Clark admits, "but those social systems do not create the differences, they exploit them." Remove oppression and biology emerges more clearly, not less.
You Can't "Identify Out" of Biology
"You can't identify out of your sex class or into another class if you think of man and woman as a biological class or category." When people claim to be non-binary, they've already "reified gender stereotypes" in order to reject them. The deeper irony? Those claiming to fight Western gender norms are "actually very Western or Eurocentric in their orientation." Every human society recognizes sex differences. Only Western gender theorists deny them.
The Question Academia Won't Answer
Watching detransitioners Richie Herron and Sinead Watson speak was devastating—"young people...put on a medical path that was not appropriate for them." Yet those who question this are "cancelled...silenced and being made to be fearful." Meanwhile, gender theorists make "critiques of the discipline as it was 40-50 years ago," ignoring how Jane Goodall and feminist scientists already revolutionized evolutionary biology. "You scratch the surface and the arguments as shallow as spit," Clark concludes. But in universities captured by ideology, even asking questions becomes heresy.
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