# Is anatomy destiny?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxNorthwesternU
- Speaker: Alice Dreger
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/alice_dreger_is_anatomy_destiny)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Alice Dreger works with people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and intersexed people. In her observation, it's often a fuzzy line between male and female, among other anatomical distinctions. Which brings up a huge question: Why do we let our anatomy determine our fate?

## Lectures

1. [Is anatomy destiny?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/alice_dreger_is_anatomy_destiny/103fdc74a5ee), 19 min (TED's player)