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![Figure from the paper. At the top it says in red: Impoverished understandings of sex and gender in women's health research
And then it lists the following below:
Conceptualizing sex or gender in terms of binary categories, and a subsequent search for differences between groups. This limits understanding of complex distributions and overlap between categories of people, while tending to erase the experiences of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people [25,31,38];
Relying on categories (e.g., female/male, woman/man) as though categories themselves are causes or mechanisms in health and illness, rather than understanding them as proxies for potentially relevant mechanisms (e.g., specific hormone levels, body mass and tissue distribution, propensity for risk-taking behaviors, exposure to discrimination, etc.) [39-41);
Discussing the experiences of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people as exceptions to the binary rule, rather than indicative of overall human diversity [42-44];
Understanding gender as primarily an individual trait or set of traits, rather than as a social system of difference and inequality that impacts health [45,46]:
Understanding sex as a static category existing prior to, and independently from, gender-related factors, and subsequently isolating and prioritizing sex as a target of investigation, inviting overly bio-deterministic conclusions about health and illness [47-49];
Isolating gender/sex from other intersecting social systems shaping health (e.g. ethnicity and race, class, sexuality, nation), such that women's health knowledge is not generalizable to all women [50.51].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreigrmqmkoos4jswaj3fhhcdsmhdjkf6ydk4rfckdoevvo5c7t4qqnq)
