iStockphoto.com Opinion 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Flexible Gender Identities Confound Expectations Of A Male And Female World March 14, 2013 In Virginia last month, a transgendered person was made to leave a sex-segregated public bath because of customer complaints. Commentator Barbara J. King sees this discriminatory act as another example of the "born male-born female" dichotomy ingrained in our culture.
iStockphoto Opinion 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Can Children Know, At Age 2, They Were Born The 'Wrong Sex'? May 24, 2012 When a very young child, born as a girl, insists she is a boy, what should a family do? Can the biology of developmental dynamics help us think through this conundrum? Commentator Barbara J. King discusses these issues with a noted gender-studies expert.