Emily Kwong
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
that sex is hard to define.
It can be defined, in fact, by a lot of things like anatomy or hormones or chromosomes.
That makes sense.
So how do researchers or doctors account for this complexity in sex?
I mean, I'm 5'8", and there are plenty of men who are my exact height.
This is dangerous for everyone because of the oversimplification of the two-bucket system, blue and pink.
I think about this all the time.
Like when I go to the gym, there are so many different types of bodies.
Even if people are the same sex, they can look vastly, vastly different.
So averages can only take us so far because at the end of the day, doctors are treating individuals.
Marina also brought this up to us.
Of course there is.
Like in drug research, we may see differences in outcomes that we think have to do with sex, but actually it could come from a multitude of different factors.