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Gender and sex

Sep 09, 2023
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Sometime in the last few years, a remarkable insight shook the scientific world and upended virtually all of biology: the discovery that sex is not binary.

This challenges hundreds—thousands—of years of dedicated exploration by every great physician in history. Our species is not divided into men and women, but rather into a spectrum that encompasses dozens, even hundreds of uniquely identifiable "genders."

Why doesn’t this get far more attention, both as a matter of science, and as an historical achievement?

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