Law, policy, biology, and sex: Critical issues for researchers

Science. 2022 May 20;376(6595):802-804. doi: 10.1126/science.abo1102. Epub 2022 May 19.

¹ Faculty of Law, Faculty of Humanities, Women and Gender Studies Program, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
² Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
³ Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁴ Women and Gender Studies Program, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA.
⁵ Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Abstract

Researchers should be aware of how sex-difference science is (mis)applied in legal and policy contexts.