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Authored by an amazing team, Ben Maldonado, @jrmarsella.bsky.social, Abigail Higgins, and Sarah Richardson

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We shout out some of the ongoing work of clinicians and scholars who are building new methods to critically and contextually study sex, and call for the Journal to be a leader in this move away from crude sex categories.

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We show that the Journal helped promote sexist ideas about fundamental differences between women and men. These ideas have had long-term implications for the treatment of patients – and for whose voices are included in medicine:

Over the past two centuries, articles in NEJM have:
Argued that women were incapable of being doctors due their supposed delicate nature, menstrual cycle, and reproductive weakness. 
Attributed a variety of conditions to the reproductive organs of women, especially mental illness
Used women’s fertility as a sign of their overall health
Portrayed intersex people as medical oddities and, at times, used them as subjects of medical study without consent.
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Please check out the other incisive pieces in this issue: www.cell.com/news-do/cell...

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See this piece as well as other lab work related to the piece on the GenderSci Lab blog. www.genderscilab.org/blog/cell-pe...

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Feminist research lab at Harvard University dedicated to generating concepts, methods, and theories for scientific research on sex and gender.
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