Westbrook Lecture—Beyond the Binaries: The New Science of Sex and Gender
Wagner Free Institute of Science 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesJoin us as Mallika Sarma, Agustín Fuentes, and Nathan Lents reveal how sex & gender are not always neatly coupled in humans nor animals.ANNUAL WESTBROOK LECTUREBeyond the Binaries: The New Science of Sex and Gender with Mallika S. Sarma, Agustín Fuentes, and Nathan H. LentsRecent executive orders in the United States and Supreme Court decisions in the United Kingdom have claimed a scientific consensus regarding the binary nature of sex and gender. But is that what science actually shows? Far from affirming a simple binary, the past two decades of sex and gender research, in both humans and other animals,