The mandate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention follows an executive order from president Donald Trump, and ...

Federal websites were overhauled Friday as agencies scrambled to comply with President Donald Trump’s mandate on gender identity. Trump has been vocal in recent months about his view that there ...

The Department of Gender, Race, and Identity (GRI) pursues the interdisciplinary and intersectional study of gender, race, and related constructions of identity, difference, and power that have ...

to signify an "unspecified or another gender identity." The State Department's webpage with information about the "X" marker appears to have since been taken offline. While the details of how ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To a degree unimaginable a decade ago, the intensely personal subject of gender identity has entered the public square.

When writing about gender and sex, it is important to understand to what these categories refer. Gender is a social construct and a social identity that encompasses an individual’s attitudes, feelings ...

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The order reverses efforts by the Biden administration to broaden gender identity designations, including on passports. “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United ...

For the first time in its history, the census in 2021 asked respondents about their sexual orientation and gender identity. Asked as a voluntary question to those over the age of 16, the aim was to ...