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NPR says the gender binary means assigning norms to two categories: Male and female. Others see gender as a spectrum. Gender is different than sex, which refers to the biology of a body, usually at birth
The gender binary
NPR
NPR says the gender binary means assigning norms to two categories: Male and female. Others see gender as a spectrum. Gender is different than sex, which refers to the biology of a body, usually at birth
The Hill
The Hill Op: The gender binary is facing a reckoning in America. The collapse of the gender binary is changing everything from federal forms to demographic data
Hot Air
Hot Air thinks the fuss over gender is out of control. Can you believe a high schooler got suspended because they told their classmate there are only two genders?
Fox News
A Fox Op agrees: Gender is a complex issue. Most importantly, our children should not be asked about their gender identity in middle school
Michael Hobbes
Yeah, activism is invading our classrooms, writes Substacker Bari Weiss. Med school profs are apologizing for using terms like “male” and “female” -- they’re denying basic science!
Nature
But Nature Magazine writes that science doesn’t support the traditional gender binary
IFLScience
Agreed, says an Op in IFL Science. The strict male/female binary doesn’t reflect reality -- neither in neurobiology nor in caregiving through history
USA Today
And plenty of people naturally exist outside the gender binary. In fact, up to 1.7% of people are born with intersex traits -- from USA Today
JSTOR Daily
Also, a Japanese historian says that pre-modern Japan had a fluid third gender
Them
And 50% of Generation Z think gender roles and labels are too old school -- from Them.us
Newsweek
But Newsweek reports that most adults in the U.S. think there are only two genders
Time
And the gender binary does play a role in the well-being of trans kids. Time Magazine shares a study that shows gender-affirming therapy can save lives
CNN
In any event, U.S. passport applications now include “X” as an option of gender marker
The Hill
But there’s all sorts of legislation across the country trying to affirm the traditional gender binary -- at least on paper. The Hill reports on a GOP resolution which defines
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