Sex refers to biological differences between males and females (e.g. gonads, sexual organs, chromosomes, hormones). Sex is usually assigned at birth (there are examples when it is assigned later, when ...

Same-gender attractions have been around for centuries. The development of the LGBTQ+ community has been going on since the early 1900s. As time went on, more and more were slowly attached to the ...

Background and Goal: Federal health surveys are a key source for understanding health needs in the U.S., including the needs of people in LGBTQ+ community. This methodology paper characterized the ...

Should we use “sex” and “gender” interchangeably when discussing people? A recent article in the prestigious academic journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provides one ...

More research is necessary to fully understand how our hormones affect our gender identity and expression. However, some research shows that hormones may influence gender dysphoria in some people. In ...

Gender identity debates are not just a looming factor over future elections; they’re also the hidden crisis in our LGBTQ+ communities. They’re leading to bad habits learned and normalized, ...

Despite extensive psycholinguistic research on gendered language, investigations of how psychological gender identity shapes linguistic behavior in clinical populations remain scarce. Drawing on ...

Over the last decade, elite academia has uncritically embraced gender-identity ideology, according to which self-identification as a boy or girl, or a man or woman, takes priority for all practical ...

Beyond the binaries of gay and straight, male and female lies a broad spectrum of identities. (All are real and valid, despite what certain executive orders or conservative talking points would have ...