The NIH’s ORWH has added its Sex As a Biological Variable page back (though it has a “historical page” disclaimer on it). It’s clean, clear and correct. The associated PDF guidelines have also been corrected. https://orwh.od.nih.gov/sites/orwh/files/docs/NOT-OD-15-102_Guidance_508.pdf Example paragraph: Definitions of sex and gender. Research findings may be influenced by sex and/or gender, and it is important to use these terms appropriately. Women and men are characterized by both sex and gender, as highlighted in the Institute of Medicine report entitled Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter? (2001).4 Sex is a biological variable defined by characteristics encoded in DNA, such as reproductive organs and other physiological and functional characteristics. Gender refers to social, cultural, and psychological traits linked to human males and females through social context. In most cases, the term “sex” should be used when referring to animals. Both sex and gender and their interactions can influence molecular and cellular processes, clinical characteristics, as well as health and disease outcomes. ...
Gender Ideology at the FDA
Federal science-based agencies had actually done a reasonable job at resisting gender madness through the late 2010s, some peak years those were. It makes sense, places like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had long been issuing guidance on sex differences with respect to matters of life and death. Clinical trails and the devices and drugs they assess are, at their best, gold standard experimental work involving human participants; there isn’t a terrible amount of room for religious nonsense. I’d often point to such technocratic agencies in the past to show transactivists their pseudo scientific ideas could not be found in places where you found adults doing serious work. ...
How The NIH Slowly Forgot Women Exist
The National Institutes of Health is America’s federal authority on medical research, controlling billions in research funding for universities and research institutions. One of those offices, that you may have not heard much about, is the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH, don’t look for the website just yet). The office was born in 1991 out of efforts to address what it says on the tin: women’s health. Carefully looking back at the changes on ORWH website provides us with a sort of ice core of just how much gender ideology has influenced the one of the most important scientific institutions in the world. Lets start around some of the first snapshots we can find of the ORWH site. ...
How The NIH Slowly Forgot Women Exist
The National Institutes of Health is America’s federal authority on medical research, controlling billions in research funding for universities and research institutions. One of those offices, that you may have not heard much about, is the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH, don’t look for the website just yet). The office was born in 1991 out of efforts to address what it says on the tin: women’s health. Carefully looking back at the changes on ORWH website provides us with a sort of ice core of just how much gender ideology has influenced the one of the most important scientific institutions in the world. Lets start around some of the first snapshots we can find of the ORWH site. ...