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. 2025 Oct 22.
doi: 10.1007/s10508-025-03337-6. Online ahead of print.

Politics, Not Science Revisited: The Harms of Continuing to Ask About Gender Identity and Biological Sex

Morgan Sterling  1 , Storm Balint  1 , Julia Power  2 , Oliver Cheek  1 , Nicholas Armstrong  1 , Alex MacTavish  1 , Via Morgan  1 , A Dana Ménard  3
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Politics, Not Science Revisited: The Harms of Continuing to Ask About Gender Identity and Biological Sex

Morgan Sterling et al. Arch Sex Behav. .
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