A gender studies expert explains why the Trump administration’s claim that everyone is male or female defies science and ignores the complexity of human sexuality.
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A recent report shows alarming rates of homophobic language used in Australian schools. And worse, it shows that, at least from the perspective of students, teachers rarely intervene.
Female moles evolved to have high testosterone levels, making them fiercer diggers and mothers. Female hyenas share this trait, but it means they must give birth through a male-like phallus.
As North Americans celebrate Pride this summer, we should take it as a reminder of our colourful sexual diversity, and also the infinite ways to have sex, with nothing unnatural with any of them.
Global attitudes to gender and sexual diversity are changing. Some embrace the diversity; others push back.
Eurovision Song Contest fandom on social media is giving LGBT issues a global platform.
Leaving young people to figure sexuality and sex out themselves could result in ill-informed decision-making, and withholds knowledge that is their right to have.
Artists, free speech advocates and gay rights activists in Brazil are dismayed after an LGBTQ-centric exhibit was closed because the subject matter offended evangelical Christians.
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Professor of Philosophy, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
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Associate Professor in Adolescent Development, Behaviour and Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Director, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine & SAMRC Extramural Unit for Stem Cell Research & Therapy, University of Pretoria
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Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor and Coordinator of Women's and Gender Studies, Coastal Carolina University