Tag: Testosterone
Not everyone is male or female – the growing controversy over...
Carl Streed Jr, Boston University and Frances Grimstad, Harvard University
Check out your birth certificate and surely you’ll see...
How high school sports became the latest battleground over transgender rights
Elizabeth A. Sharrow, University of Massachusetts Amherst
This year, 20 states proposed to ban transgender girls – meaning those assigned male at birth but who...
Stop calling it a choice: Biological factors drive homosexuality
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
Across cultures, 2% to 10% of people report having same-sex relations. In the U.S., 1% to 2.2% of women and men,...
Caster Semenya’s impossible situation: Testosterone gets special scrutiny but doesn’t necessarily...
Jaime Schultz, Pennsylvania State University
A yearslong saga between a middle-distance runner and her sport’s ruling body may be nearing something that resembles a conclusion.
In...
Finger size does matter… in sports
Grant Tomkinson, University of North Dakota and Makailah Dyer, University of North Dakota
Examine your fingers. Which is longer? Is it the index finger (the...
Postpartum depression can affect dads – and their hormones may be...
Darby Saxbe, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Postpartum depression has become more visible as celebrity moms including Brooke...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
