Our post last week covered the biological basis for gender, but as we know, biology is only one small part of human identity. The psychological and social factors that mold your internal sense of gender most likely have a much greater impact on how you construct your life. And all of these biopsychosocial factors are deeply intertwined. Your biology informs how society perceives you from the moment you’re born and the doctors slap you with a gendered label (or even before as many parents opt to learn the gender before birth). The subtle (or not so subtle in some cases)…
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Welcome back to Science You Can Bring Home To Mom! This month, in honor of pride month, we are discussing the science behind gender and biological sex. Just like many other attributes of the human brain, our common understanding of gender is rife with oversimplification and misunderstanding. But digging a little deeper can help us learn to empathize with others and understand ourselves better. As a human attribute, gender is inherently biopsychosocial—it’s influenced by biological, psychological, and social factors. And each of these paradigms is far more complex than it may seem on the surface. Next week, we’ll dissect some…
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