Conversations about the differences between girls and boys—and between women and men—often make people uneasy. Some fear that ...

Mental health experts warned social factors could be contributing to the rise in gender dysphoria in children, after a new study found cases have skyrocketed over a ten-year period. Gender dysphoria ...

There is a widespread belief that children’s play activities and toy preferences (e.g., dolls, toy guns) are driven by parents and other social influences (e.g., media), as if children don’t have ...

A new brain-imaging study of young adolescents has shown that sex and gender map onto different brain networks. The findings, published on Friday in Science Advances, demonstrate the importance of ...