Sex is a biological variable--in the brain too
We are concerned that Lise Eliot's review of Gina Rippon's book The Gendered Brain
(https://www. nature. com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x) undermines the premise that sex is
a biological variable with respect to many medical conditions and drug responses (see JA
Clayton and FS Collins Nature 509, 282-283; 2014).As president-elect and president,
respectively, of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, we disagree with Eliot's
claim that the brain is" no more gendered than the liver or kidneys or heart". We also …
(https://www. nature. com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x) undermines the premise that sex is
a biological variable with respect to many medical conditions and drug responses (see JA
Clayton and FS Collins Nature 509, 282-283; 2014).As president-elect and president,
respectively, of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, we disagree with Eliot's
claim that the brain is" no more gendered than the liver or kidneys or heart". We also …
We are concerned that Lise Eliot's review of Gina Rippon's book The Gendered Brain (https://www. nature. com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x) undermines the premise that sex is a biological variable with respect to many medical conditions and drug responses (see JA Clayton and FS Collins Nature 509, 282-283; 2014).
As president-elect and president, respectively, of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, we disagree with Eliot's claim that the brain is" no more gendered than the liver or kidneys or heart". We also disagree that sex differences in behaviour are due to cultural effects on newborns, not to biological effects. In our view, these are not mutually exclusive. Sex disparities occur in animal models that are not subject to cultural bias.
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