{"id":362,"date":"2026-04-15T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/?p=362"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:55:49","slug":"from-testosterone-to-racialization-to-knobby-knees-15-years-of-gender-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"From Testosterone to Racialization to Knobby Knees: 15\u2009Years of Gender\/Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>DOI:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ajhb.70090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1002\/ajhb.70090<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Authors:<\/h4>\n<p>Sari M. van Anders<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract:<\/h4>\n<p>This paper discusses ~15 years of my research on gender\/sex. I first discuss how \u00ab\u00a0sex versus gender\u00a0\u00bb is an overlay onto \u00ab\u00a0nature versus nurture\u00a0\u00bb ideologies, and the ways these are unempirical (if not anti-empirical), inaccurate, and unjust. I provide definitions of gender\/sex, as well as gender and sex, and the pitfalls of \u00ab\u00a0getting sex right\u00a0\u00bb ideologies that aim to provide a singular universal definition of sex that belies its multiplicity, dynamism, and social situatedness. I discuss how these ideologies are often rooted in \u00ab\u00a0bio\/logics\u00a0\u00bb that seek to define sex in ways that restrict human rights, especially for gender\/sex minorities. I focus on my own research on testosterone (T) beyond masculinity that highlights the importance of gender\/sex. This includes thinking about T in terms of social and biomaterial construction, including a \u00ab\u00a0gender \u2192 T pathway\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0chronic gender\u00a0\u00bb. I then describe how discussions of T are also rooted in racism, racialization, colonialism, and settler colonialism. In addition, I delineate how this makes not just for \u00ab\u00a0sex versus gender\u00a0\u00bb dichotomies and gender binaries, but ladders or helices that include gender\/sex and race\/ethnicity, among other social locations. I also point to gender\/sex as an important lens for understanding bodily formations beyond T, that include a new \u00ab\u00a0knobby knee hypothesis\u00a0\u00bb. In discussing these topics, I focus on an array of important feminist science principles, including epistemic injustice, pre-theory, intersectionality, and diffraction. I close by discussing how gender\/sex can provide an avenue for bioscientific research that is more empirical, accurate, and just.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOI: 10.1002\/ajhb.70090 Authors: Sari M. van Anders Abstract: This paper discusses ~15 years of my research on gender\/sex. I first discuss how \u00ab\u00a0sex versus gender\u00a0\u00bb is an overlay onto \u00ab\u00a0nature versus nurture\u00a0\u00bb ideologies, and the ways these are unempirical (if not anti-empirical), inaccurate, and unjust. I provide definitions of gender\/sex, as well as gender and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}