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by Deborah Tolman and Bridget Woods In 2019, we here at SexGenLab.org created a toolkit to answer the question: “ Why is Everyone So Upset about Gender ? Deb’s father, then an 80-year retired doctor, asked this question; he was really puzzled by all the fuss about athletes’ “true sex.” Castor Semenya, an Olympic gold-medalist runner, was under intense scrutiny and subjected to invasive sex testing to “evaluate” her gender. A desperate need to know how to categorize her and h

by Deborah L. Tolman, Hunter Kincaid, Bridget Woods, Jennifer Chmielewski and Anthony Freeman The US is finally starting to have a real conversation about racial (in)justice. In this TookKit, we present research to explain, debunk and complicate racist gender stereotypes about Black Americans, focusing on how they are utilized and perpetuated by research on Black masculinity and femininity, revealing how they impact Black women and men, whether they are cisgender or transgen

By Deborah Tolman and Laura Hooberman It seems that we are obsessed with love . We have even created a holiday to celebrate it; some might say a Hallmark Holiday that makes love into an idealised commodity, a thing that we are all supposed to want and to have, to get and keep–and romance is at its heart. So what is love and is it as important as we make it out to be? In a word, love is elusive . It may be the most popular topic for songs of all time, and the lyric

By Laura Hooberman In mid-October of this year, the conservative blog Red State leaked intimate photos and text messages exchanged between Katie Hill, the freshman Democratic representative from California’s 25th district, and one of her campaign aides. The public discourse in the wake of this scandal could have focused on any one of these issues: 1) the exploitative, gross, and potentially illegal invasion of privacy enacted by Red State in distributing private photographs

Gender has gotten complicated. It turns out that the seemingly straightforward categories of male/female, woman/man, masculinity / femininity are in fact not so clear cut, as shown by new concepts, such as gender identity , cisgender , transgender or trans , gender non-conforming . Think about how uncomfortable so many people are when they cannot determine a person’s gender .[1] So when gender lines blur, people have strong reactions and feelings, but policies, laws and so

The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development, edited by Sharon Lamb and Jen Gilbert, is here ! SGL’s own Deb Tolman and Jenn Chmielewski...

In April 2018, a New York Times article entitled “Sex, Sport and Why Track and Field’s New Rules on Intersex Athletes are Essential” was...