A recent Trump executive order defines sex based on gamete size. But the order oversimplifies genetics, hormones and reproductive biology.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The removal of reproductiverights.gov remains a concerning signal for the future of reproductive health ... participants ages 15-29 and assigned female at birth (AFAB), approximately 80 percent ...

JERUSALEM, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday released four Israeli female soldiers, who were exchanged for 200 Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israeli jails.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Four female Israeli soldiers held hostage by Hamas have returned to Israel while 200 Palestinian prisoners ...

The order calls for the federal government to define sex as only male or female and for that to be reflected on official documents such as passports and policies such as federal prison assignments. As ...

male and female" and defines a "female" as "a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell." The order defines "male" as "a person belonging, at conception ...

A protein that restricts muscle growth also has an unexpected role in the reproductive system, studies 1 in rodents ... The team found that treating female mice with myostatin-inhibiting ...

By contrast, if XX chromosomes are present, embryos typically absorb the Wolffian ducts and the Müllerian ducts begin to develop the female internal reproductive system. Because embryos only ...

“Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the ...

According to the order, the US only recognizes two sexes, male and female, which are defined respectively as a "person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive ...