Word: genderism
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...change operations fall into this category? Some doctors believe that prospective transsexuals really are born into the wrong body; the surgery is therefore corrective. Others argue with equal force that gender dysphoria, as it is known, is a psychiatric affliction and that mutilating the body to fit the afflicted psyche is to inflict a double injury on the patient. The area is gray enough, and the controversy serious enough, to leave the matter, as we have, to the conscience of the individual physician...
...kill Ron off, because in the movies it's always the sweet best friend who dies. But into that familiar tree house Rowling inserts Hermione, infuriating at first, indispensable very soon, and the tone and tenor of their friendships ring true to a generation of kids for whom gender roles and relationships have been rearranged...
...potential liver damage. When researchers analyzed levels of certain liver enzymes that become elevated in response to alcohol, they found that men who drink daily have the highest levels of the telltale enzymes but that enzyme levels in women are highest among those who drink only on weekends. Another gender difference: women who drink on an empty stomach have higher enzyme levels than women who drink and eat. (For men, it doesn't much matter if or when they...
Suddenly he's everyone's favorite feminist, railing against "stereotype-based beliefs about the allocation of family duties" and "invalid gender stereotypes" in the workplace. The language is Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist's, in his surprising majority opinion last week saying that state governments have to abide by the Family and Medical Leave Act. Rehnquist is better known for his decisions in favor of states' rights and against groups that want protection from discrimination. What got into him? Some theories...
...from just after 9 until nearly 10 o’clock, the well-known philanthropist who sponsored the conference hijacked the podium. She attempted to speak on women and gender, but instead rambled on about chicken farming and Africa and estrogen and the Chinese language...