SSE tells HHS to acknowledge sex and gender diversity

Society for the Study of Evolution Letter RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender

It is really exciting when one’s professional society stands up for an important issue, and this issue is near and dear to both my teaching interests and my heart. The idea that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — an agency charged with providing support to all of our citizens — would try to define both sex and gender in such narrow and unscientific terms is disturbing. This is just another example of the current administration trying to substitute a fantastical culturally-constructed idea of how the world works for the actual scientific reality.

Thanks SSE for standing strong on this issue!