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Are trans women ‘biologically male’? The answer is complicated

Sarah McBride, center, is the first out transgender member of Congress. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images by G. Samantha Rosenthal, Washington and Lee University A surprising buzzword in...

Backlash to transgender health care isn’t new − but the faulty science used to justify it has changed to meet the times

by G. Samantha Rosenthal, Roanoke College In the past century, there have been three waves of opposition to transgender health care. In 1933, when the Nazis...

When will the COVID-19 pandemic end? 4 essential reads on past pandemics and what the future could bring

by Maggie Villiger, The Conversation More than two years after the first cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed, people are exhausted by the coronavirus pandemic, ready...

People gave up on flu pandemic measures a century ago when they tired of them – and paid a price

Armistice Day celebrations on Nov. 11, 1918, worried public health experts as people crowded together in cities across the U.S. AP Photo by J. Alexander...

Parents were fine with sweeping school vaccination mandates five decades ago – but COVID-19 may be a different story

Children and parents lined up for polio vaccines outside a Syracuse, New York school in 1961. AP Photo by James Colgrove, Columbia University The ongoing battles over...

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