Former Harvard Biologist Who Defended Biological Sex Says School Failed To Support Her Amid Attacks

A former Harvard lecturer and evolutionary biologist who bucked gender ideology claims the Ivy League school failed to support her as her career was imploding.

Carole Hooven, who previously taught the “Hormones and Behavior” human evolutionary biology course at Harvard, first ignited controversy back in 2021 when she declared that there are only two biological sexes.

“This was 2021 and I didn’t know everything I know now. I had expected that they would [support me], but nobody knew what to do,” Hooven told The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan earlier this month.

In July 2021, Hooven defended biological sex during an appearance on Fox News.

“The ideology seems to be that biology really isn’t as important as how somebody feels about themselves or feels their sex to be,” Hooven told Fox News at the time.

“The facts are that there are, in fact, two sexes — there are male and female — and those sexes are designated by the kind of gametes we produce,” added Hooven, who has also authored a book about testosterone.

The interview sparked a backlash from one of her Harvard graduate student colleagues.

Laura Simone Lewis, the director of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force at Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, criticized Hooven on social media shortly after the interview.

Lewis said she was “appalled and frustrated by the transphobic and harmful remarks” made by a member of her department.

What followed was postgraduates calling Hooven a “bigot” and refusing to be her teaching assistant, she claimed.

Eventually, Hooven decided to leave her role at Harvard.

“I gave everything to that place,” she said of the university during her interview on The Dishcast this month.

“This happened because DEI is so powerful in the university,” Hooven said. “None of them were willing to do anything.”

“It was very influential, and I know for a fact that faculty were nervous about p—–g off the people on the DEI task force,” she said.

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