The Women Who Took On the APA
… Today, [Kay Tobin] Lahusen continues the work, putting together a photographic history of the early days of gay activism for the New York Public Library. The APA continues to evolve. …
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Of Genes, Genitals, and Gender
CRYSTAL WAS WORRIED that she had male orgasms. So she came in to the Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) Clinic three years ago for a consultation with a phalanx of specialists: a urologist, a geneticist, an endocrinologist, and me, the psychiatric consultant.
MoreAnatomy Is Destiny, Except Sometimes
AS A BIOLOGIST, I have found the arguments against same-sex marriage
misguided—not because the evidence hints at homosexuality being based,
at least in part, on biological roots, but because the same arguments
that are used to keep same-sex marriage illegal could also be applied
to some ostensibly opposite-sex marriages. It may be shocking for some
people to hear that the sex and gender of every individual in our
population does not fit into a conventionally defined box that can be
labeled “male” or “female.”
More“Nature Abhors a Category”
An interview with the author of Evolution’s Rainbow
MoreBrief History of a Recurring Nightmare
Strange “cures” for an age-old “disease”
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