From Banana Slugs to Human Beings, There Are Just Two Sexes An examination of 18 supposedly ‘trans animals’ disproves activist claims that we all live on a non-binary gender ‘spectrum.’ Emma Hilton / Jonathan Kay 17 Apr 2024 · 10 min read
Why Do Men Dominate Chess? FIDE’s new policy governing who can compete in women’s categories highlights the persistent sex imbalance at the game’s elite levels. Carole Hooven 22 Mar 2024 · 27 min read
Sex Differences in the Brain and the Mind Men’s and women’s brains are biased to notice and process different aspects of the social and physical world. David C. Geary 18 Jan 2024 · 11 min read
The Sex of Skeletons To suggest that a spirited discussion of the importance of sex and gender in archeology threatens “scientific integrity” is to misunderstand the nature of science. Lawrence M. Krauss 11 Oct 2023 · 7 min read
Male or Female: There's Nothing In Between Since the dawn of our species, the evolution of two distinct sexes has been fundamental to human reproduction. There is no such thing as a ‘sex spectrum.’ Zachary A. Elliott 25 Sep 2023 · 17 min read
Ignoring Biological Reality Puts Female Hockey Players at Risk A frightening injury at an NHL-sponsored transgender tournament in Wisconsin reminds us why women’s leagues should remain sex-protected spaces. Jonathan Kay 9 Dec 2022 · 12 min read
Sex and the Academy The inclusion of women in higher education is a great achievement for Western liberal societies. How is this changing academic culture? Cory Clark / Bo Winegard 8 Oct 2022 · 13 min read
The Ideological Refusal to Acknowledge Evolved Sex Differences Boys and girls are not infinitely malleable, socially constructed products of the patriarchy. David C. Geary 1 Sep 2022 · 13 min read
Naturally Selective: Female Orgasm and Female Sexual Selection Female orgasms themselves could, once again, be roughly divided into being located either deep inside or comparatively on the surface. Robert King 7 Jan 2022 · 8 min read
The Real Gender Gap in Heart Disease Men have been dying at higher rates than women over time, and the gap appears to be constant. Anish Koka 12 Jun 2019 · 9 min read
A Girl’s Place in the World Men (and, less often, women as well) across societies all over the world have used violence in an attempt to control women’s reproductive outcomes and limit the choices available to them, and in many circumstances, men have benefited from doing so. William Buckner 9 May 2019 · 14 min read
Sex, Love, and Knowing the Difference There are biological reasons that explain why the experience of being in love feels so overwhelming. Debra Soh 3 May 2019 · 5 min read
Alessandro Strumia: Another Politically-Correct Witch-Hunt, or a More Complicated Story? Hossenfelder—who believes women in science are still held back by sexist cultural biases but also opposes preferential treatment as a shortcut to equality—is a welcome exception. Cathy Young 22 Apr 2019 · 12 min read
Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics? Proposing that some gender imbalances in fields like physics might not be due to discrimination is like being a social scientist in the Soviet Union and proposing that some class differences aren’t due to discrimination. Alessandro Strumia 16 Apr 2019 · 14 min read
From Hegemonic to Responsive Masculinity: the Transformative Power of the Provider Role There is little evidence to justify why the provider role has been held in such low regard. Belinda Brown 11 Apr 2019 · 10 min read
