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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...

Charles Henry Turner: The little-known Black high school science teacher who revolutionized the study of insect behavior in the early 20th century

by Edward D. Melillo, Amherst College On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the...

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...

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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