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Systematic review: puberty suppressing drugs do not alleviate gender dysphoria
Clinicians treating teenagers with gender dysphoria, the teens themselves, and their parents, are faced with a dilemma – puberty suppressing drugs and hormonal treatments will likely make it easier for the adolescent to gender transition in due course, and the earlier that process begins, the more effective it is likely to be. However, intervening earlier comes with a greater risk that the teen may later de-transition...
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Harsh realities of being a professional 'girl gamer'
They endure everything from subtle jabs to full-on death threats, but these women are not deterred from pursuing their passion for professional gaming.
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Does anyone have the right to sex?
Some men are excluded from the sexual sphere for politically suspect reasons – including, perhaps, some of the men driven to vent their despair on anonymous forums – but the moment their unhappiness is transmuted into a rage at the women ‘denying’ them sex, rather than at the systems that shape desire (their own and others’), they have crossed a line into something morally ugly and confused. By Amia Srinivasan.
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The Genesis of Blame
A couple of weeks ago, the pope described ‘fake news’ as being like the strategy employed by the ‘crafty serpent’ in the Book of Genesis… By Anne Enright.
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Men with higher testosterone levels report being more protective of their romantic relationships
New research suggests that men with higher levels of testosterone tend to devote more energy to keeping their romantic partners faithful and in a relationship with them. The study, published in the journal Physiology & Behavior, examined what is known as mate retention behavior. “A great deal of research has previously focused on the role that testosterone (an androgen) plays in men’s mate-seeking and competition for mates,” explained study author Steven Arnocky, an associate professor and founding director of the Human Evolution Laboratory at Nipissing University, Canada.
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Uber gender pay gap 'explained' - men drive faster than women
Male Uber drivers earn more than their female counterparts because they drive faster, new analysis has found. A study by Stanford and Chicago Universities, commissioned by the company, revealed that the average 2.2 per cent faster speeds of the male drivers accounted for around half of the earnings gap.
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Guy Disguises Himself as a Woman, Reaches National Beauty Contest Final
Arina Aliyeva, one of the finalists of the 2018 Miss Virtual Kazakhstan beauty contest, recently shocked the nation after announcing that she was actually a 22-year-old man who had signed up for the national contest to prove an important point. It all started with an argument Eli Diaghilev, a young Kazakh male model, had with his friends about female beauty. He argued that in the old days women valued qualities like individuality and charisma...
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Women Survive Crises Better Than Men
Women today tend to live longer than men almost everywhere worldwide -- in some countries by more than a decade. Now, three centuries of historical records show that women don’t just outlive men in normal times: They’re more likely to survive even in the worst of circumstances, such as famines and epidemics, researchers report.
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The Mate Selection Trapdoor
Tracing the evolution of hidden sexual preferences. By Michael J. Ryan.
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Why Are There No Great Female Werewolves?
The werewolves we remember from history, film, and literature tend to be gruesome, hairy—and male. It’s time to get real about our irrational fear of wolfish women. By Julia Oldham.
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Croydon restaurant insists on hiring only women for cleaning roles
A Mediterranean restaurant in Croydon has come under fire for advertising for a female dishwasher. Staff put a poster up on one of the window’s saying “part time staff required (female)” to notify locals that they were looking for someone to help in the kitchen. Ridvan Das, owner and manager, told the Croydon Advertiser that he specifically wanted to hire a woman because they “are obviously better at cleaning than men.”
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Winner Of High School Golf Tournament Denied Trophy, Because She's A Girl
Emily Nash was allowed to play. She just wasn't allowed to win. Nash, a junior at Lunenburg High School in Lunenburg, Mass., had the lowest score in the Central Mass Division 3 Boys' Golf Tournament. But the first-place trophy was awarded to a boy who was four strokes behind her, because of the rules of the tournament.
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NSFW ‘A Nasty Name for a Nasty Thing’: A History of Cunt
Please be warned; as far as offensive words go, you are entering a hardhat area. By Kate Lister.
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12-year-old boy who transitioned to female changes his mind 2 years later
An Australian schoolboy who decided to transition into a female has changed his mind two years later. At just 12-years-old, Patrick Mitchell, begged with his mother to begin taking oestrogen hormones after doctors diagnosed him with gender dysphoria – a condition where a person experiences distress because there is a mismatch between their biological sex and gender identity.
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Canada Introduces ‘X’ as a Third Sex Category for Passport Holders
Starting Thursday, Canadians will have a new way to identify their sex on passports and other government documents: “X” will join the options of male and female. The decision to allow the third category, indicating an “unspecified” sex, is intended to protect the rights of Canadians to identify by the gender of their choice, the country’s immigration department said in announcing the change. Ahmed Hussen, the minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship...
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Study Finds That Men Who Attack Women Online Are, Literally, Losers
A new study purports to show what we all could have guessed: Men who attack women online are actual losers. A pair of researchers examined interactions between players during 163 games of Halo 3 to determine when men were most likely to exhibit sexist, anti-social behavior toward their female peers.
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Selling sex: Wonder Woman and the ancient fantasy of hot lady warriors
Pop culture has always found something sexy about female fighters, who feature in everything from Sumerian hymns and Greek mythology to the new Wonder Woman film. By Christian-Georges Schwentzel. (May 25, 2017)
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Sexual offending by women is surprisingly common, claims US study
A team of US researchers led by Lara Stemple at the UCLA School of Law has analysed data from several large federal crime victimisation surveys and they say their findings show that sexual offences by women against male and female victims are surprisingly common. Writing in Aggression and Violent Behaviour the researchers stress that they are in no way intending to minimise the human cost of sexual violence perpetrated by men.
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Six West African Books with Unconventional Approaches to Gender and Power
What does it mean to be strong? Chinelo Okparanta looks at six West African books that each take a unique look at relationships.
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Restoring Threatened Masculinity: The Appeal of Sexist and Anti-Gay Humor
We propose that men scoring higher in precarious manhood beliefs (PMB) express amusement with sexist and anti-gay humor (but not other forms of humor) in response to masculinity threat in order to reaffirm their masculinity. Accordingly, Experiment 1 (166 heterosexual men in the United States recruited through Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk) supported the hypothesis that men higher in PMB express greater amusement with sexist and anti-gay jokes after experiencing a threat to their masculinity but not in the absence of masculinity threat.
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