How many genders are there? The terms you need to know

Gender is so much more complex than just ‘men’ and ‘women’.

 How science is helping us understand gender

Freed from the binary of boy and girl, gender identity is a shifting landscape. Can science help us navigate?

 Myth and Misdiagnosis Have Plagued Women’s Health for Centuries

A new book by scholar Elinor Cleghorn details the medical mistreatment of women throughout Western history.

 Why is the idea of ‘gender’ provoking backlash the world over?

To ask questions about gender, that is, how society is organized according to gender, and with what consequences for understanding bodies, lived experience, intimate association, and pleasure, is to engage in a form of open inquiry and investigation, opposing the dogmatic social positions that seek to stop and reverse emancipatory change. And yet, “gender studies” is opposed as “dogma” by those who understand themselves on the side of “critique”.

The Gender Project

The Gender Project is an ever-growing compilation of audio, images, videos, and writings that shine a spotlight on individuals who identify as transgender, gender fluid, bigender, identify as non-binary, or express their gender in other ways that are not often recognized, represented, or respected in our current society. This website began as a semester-long journalism project, it grew into my undergraduate senior thesis, and will continue to grow in size and diversity with more stories over the coming years.

Beyond ‘He’ or ‘She’: The Changing Meaning of Gender and Sexuality

A growing number of young people are moving beyond the idea that we live in a world where sexuality and gender come in only two forms.

Gender Health

Whether you are parenting a young child who is gender creative or an older youth who has come out as trans, you may have a lot of questions.

Gender Revolution

Read the historic January 2017 Special Issue of National Geographic magazine on the shifting landscape of gender and download our discussion guide for teachers and parents.

How Gender Affects Health

When it comes to health, women and men aren't equal. Your biology allows you to escape certain health problems. However, most health conditions affect both men and women in varying degrees and ways. In some cases, doctors don't have a ready explanation for why certain diseases are more common in one sex than in another. In others, doctors will tell you complicated genetic, physiological and hormonal factors are at work.

Imagine a World Where Gender Is Neither a Plus nor a Minus

The concept of gender fluidity remains alien, even abhorrent, to many people in Western society. But that concept is accepted in nations around the world, and it opens doors. Once we recognize that gender identity and expression exist along a spectrum, why should we cling to the rigid categorization of men and women? The ultimate goal, surely, is to let all people define themselves as human beings, to break out of assigned categories and challenge received wisdom.

Macho Man, Little Princess: How Gender Norms Can Harm Kids Everywhere

What do Bolivia, Belgium, Burkina Faso, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Scotland, South Africa, the United States and Vietnam all have in common? The pervasive idea is that girls are vulnerable and that boys are strong and independent.

Public Interest in Science and Health Linked to Gender, Age and Personality

Overall, a new analysis by Pew Research Center finds 37% of online adults say “health and medicine” is among the topics they find most interesting,1, while 32% identify “science and technology” in their top three. But the people who find each topic area to be particularly interesting are, by and large, different publics. Just 11% of online adults say both “science and technology” and “health and medicine” are of particular interest.

Some Scientific Journals Are Still Confusing Sex and Gender

Sex and gender are not synonyms, yet some scientific journals continue to use them interchangeably.

The difference between sex and gender, and why both matter in health research

For example: Do you want to know if a new drug was tested and approved for safe and effective use with women? That is a “sex” question. Do you want to know why women make up the majority of long-term care workers and how this impacts their lives? That is a “gender” question.

The gender health gap exists. Just ask the 57% of women who feel they are medically misdiagnosed

Allow us to introduce you to yet another element of the patriarchy – the gender health gap. This refers to the lack of research into the female body's reaction to disease and ill health, with a larger focus on the male body and its physiology. We don't know anywhere near enough about how medical conditions affect men and women differently, but what we do know is that women are receiving poorer medical advice as a result.

The Trials of Growing Up Female

Ensuring education, protection, and equal opportunity for the world’s 1.2 billion girls is key to solving some of the planet’s most pressing problems, from the cycle of poverty to the spread of HIV/AIDS. Yet despite gains in access to education, health care, and employment, more progress is needed to put women on an equal footing with men.

This Is What Gender Fluidity Looks Like

We spoke to the artist Veronique Charlotte about 'Gender Project'. Gender doesn't mean the same thing today as it did ten years ago. You know this. You go on the internet. You've seen.

What America has got wrong about gender medicine

Too many doctors have suspended their professional judgment.

Why gender is at the heart of the matter for cardiac illness

Studies show that women with heart disease are more likely to be misdiagnosed than men, and will have worse outcomes for surgery. What is behind this bias and how can how it be fixed?

Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men

Why women are 50 percent more likely to be misdiagnosed after a heart attack and 17 percent more likely to die in a car crash.

Women’s Healthcare in a World After Gender

It’s Orwellian that today many of us feel compelled to remain silent about our female bodies, motherhood and our health as women. Women’s healthcare was always affected by male bias in medical trials. Now the degendering of healthcare is further undermining the system and female identification. Corporations will look at you not as a woman but as a birthing person.