Research provides evidence that cisgender children (children who identify as a boy or a girl according to their assigned sex at birth) show clear patterns of gender development. By age three, they ...

In a time when what defines gender is being questioned and discussed, a new study reveals that single changes in DNA make ...

The benefits of empowering women extend far beyond the immediate recipients of gender-related aid, fostering economic growth, political stability, and social cohesion. Recognizing these benefits, ...

A recent HHS report questioning the origins of gender dysphoria, rejecting medical interventions for transgender adolescents, and advocating solely for psychotherapy, brings us to a central question: ...

Women face multiple barriers during their entire life, resulting in gender gaps in education, skills, labor force participation, wages, wealth, and agency. Aligned with SDG 5's objective of achieving ...

Despite making up nearly half of the country’s population, most women in Nigeria are still excluded from political decision-making, economic opportunities and social privileges. TOBA AGBOOLA reports.

In conversations about development, empowerment and human rights, gender equality is too often framed as a “women’s issue” ...

The Gender Development Program at Children’s National Hospital will discontinue its gender-affirming medication prescription program for transgender minors and no longer offer transition services. An ...

Gender-based violence is a human rights violation. It is an unrelenting assault on human dignity, depriving people of their human rights. Freedom from violence is a fundamental hu ...