Biology of gender

Women tend to outlive men and stay mentally sharp longer, and a new study out Monday could explain why: female brains appear on average about three years younger, reports AFP. 

The study enrolled 121 women and 84 men, who underwent PET scans to measure brain metabolism, or the flow of oxygen and glucose in their brains.

British geneticists have estimated that after a few million years Y chromosome will disappear and male sex with it, writes Science Syndicate.

The male chromosome contains genes that do not seem necessary for life. In particular, the SRY gene, defining the development of the male organism.

A Google employee is fired for controversial speeches about gender diversity at work, the BBC reported.

A five-year-old Australian child born genetically male will be able to grow up as a female following a family court’s ruling to permit her sex-change surgery.
As Family Court documents show, the little girl identifies herself as a girl even though she does not have female reproductive organs.

A Navy veteran from Colorado who identifies as neither male nor female has sued the U.S. Department of State after being denied a passport for refusing to select a gender on the application, court documents showed on Oct. 26. 

A rare genetic anomaly discovered by American endocrinologist Julian Imperato in small community in the Dominican Republic saw young children changing from girls to boys when entering puberty! The children were born with female genitalia, but once they reached puberty they would form a male penis.

The matter of whether we choose our sexual orientation or it chooses us is a subject of great controversy which has caused a longstanding debate among the scientific community.

A ruling by a local court in Turkey has likely set a new precedent in the protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people, one of the most vulnerable groups in Turkey.

Four Turkish parliamentarians will attend a seminary on fundamental rights and protecting LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people from discrimination organized by the European Parliament in Albania’s capital Tirana on Nov. 20-21.

The Sabancı Foundation Turkey’s Changemakers Program is continuing in its sixth season to share the unique stories of extraordinary people who contribute to social development. The second Changemaker of the sixth season is the families of LGBTI individuals in Istanbul (LISTAG), a trailblazing group working against discrimination.