Law, policy, biology, and sex: Critical issues for researchers

Maayan Sudai, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Humanities, Women and Gender Studies Program, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Alexander Borsa, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Kelsey Ichikawa, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Heather Shattuck-Heidorn, Women and Gender Studies Program, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA.
Helen Zhao, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Sarah S. Richardson, Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Abstract

Researchers should be aware of how sex-difference science is (mis)applied in legal and policy contexts.