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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1.This one is extremely important. I often argue against reducing things to “man” and “woman” in gender analysis and warn that we ourselves don’t want to become part of
the problem of perpetuating gender binaries. For data from the US on this, see Aliya Saperstein, Stanford, who works on category development for national surveys. She, too, warns about reinforcing traditional gender binaries. Her studies show: “When respondents
of a national survey were asked about their femininity and masculinity, 7 percent considered themselves equally feminine and masculine, and another 4 percent responded in ways that did not ‘match’ their sex at birth.” She argues against continuing to “shoe-horn”
people into binary categories of masculinity and femininity. See “Gender Identification” by Aliya Saperstein, pp. 5-7:
<a href="https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways_SOTU_2018.pdf">
https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways_SOTU_2018.pdf</a> . Many countries are ahead of the US in offering national recognition to transgender and gender-fluid citizens. Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Nepal, India, and
others typically offer gender X (or an alternative) on official documents in addition to M and F.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2. Female songbirds sing! Birdsong is traditionally associated with male birds only, but females also sing--possibly differently and for different reasons.
<a href="http://femalebirdsong.org/">http://femalebirdsong.org/</a> Thanks, Ineke Sluiter!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Londa Schiebinger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Director, EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University
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