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- May 4, 2025
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HHS releases systematic review of youth gender medicine

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In response to an executive order by President Trump demanding a systematic review within 90 days, the Department of Health and Human Services released on May 1 a 409-page document reviewing the history and evidence surrounding medical treatment of minors with gender dysphoria. Given Trump’s politicization of the issue during the campaign and his subsequent […]

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- April 19, 2025
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In landmark ruling, UK’s top court says legal definition of woman refers to biological sex.

HARD COPY: High European court weighs in on definition of gender In her groundbreaking yet controversial book, The Second Sex (1949), French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir famously claimed that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” Over the last 75 years there has been a wealth of interdisciplinary scholarship to support this […]

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- April 19, 2025
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Debating Pronouns with John McWhorter:

HARD COPY: Pronoun trouble John McWhorter is an esteemed professor of linguistics at Columbia University. His latest book PRONOUN TROUBLE: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words was released on April 1, 2025. In it McWhorter establishes pronouns as both historical and dynamic. Like language in general, McWhorter shows how pronouns are adaptable cultural […]