"In our current cultural moment, discussions about whether sex and gender are spectrums or dichotomies have taken center stage. Defenders of transgender rights are often accused of pushing identity politics or “gender ideology.” But the current situation has not appeared out of the blue: attempts to define sex and gender have been a recurrent theme in medical history, and because the topic of transgender rights is necessarily also a medical one, this legacy underpins the current debates."
Read the full article "The Political Nature of Sex — Transgender in the History of Medicine" in The New England Journal of Medicine.