When it comes to buying gifts for children, everything is color-coded: Rigid boundaries segregate brawny blue action figures from pretty pink princesses, and most assume that this is how it’s always been. But in fact, the princess role that’s ubiquitous in girls’ toys today was exceedingly rare prior to the 1990s—and the marketing of toys is more gendered now than even 50 years ago, when gender discrimination and sexism were the norm.

When people call themselves “genderqueer,” does identity trump grammar?

Photographer Willeke Duijvekam documents the lives of two transgender teens over the course of six years.

In the latest installment of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Ann Leckie talks about creating a plausible future free of any incongruous modern trappings for her award-winning book Ancillary Justice.

Caught on camera in the "pink aisle" of a U.S. toy store, 5-year-old Riley posed a multibillion-dollar question: "Why does all the girls have to buy pink stuff and all the boys have to buy different colored stuff?" Her impassioned critique of profit-boosting gendered toy marketing has been viewed more than 4 million times on YouTube. She isn't a lone voice.

Commentator Barbara J. King thinks we should embrace a fluid system of gender identities.