Each person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.
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The bill treats a complex cluster of biological traits as if it were one settled thing, and ties legal meaning to the pretence.
The Sex Discrimination Act is in the news following the high-profile ‘Giggle v Tickle’ court case. Here’s how the act came to be and how it works.
Genetic testing is now required to participate in women’s events in the Olympics. But the new policy oversimplifies biological sex and risks discrimination against some female athletes.
The recent spate of executive orders around sex and gender impact nonbinary Americans, as well as trans Americans who identify as a man or a woman.
Cell-free DNA prenatal screening, sometimes called ‘the gender test,’ cannot determine gender because gender is more than just genes and genitals.
Female bodies have an advantage in endurance ability that means Paleolithic women likely hunted game, not just gathered plants. The story is written in living and ancient human bodies.
You don’t have to be labelled with a mental illness to seek help.
Global attitudes to gender and sexual diversity are changing. Some embrace the diversity; others push back.
It’s not about trauma or how you were raised: evidence now points to a biological basis for transgender, and to the action of particular genes in that determination.
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