解构性别:在神经内分泌学和行为学中取消二元思维的策略
Megan G Massa1, Krisha Aghi2, M J Hill3
1Department of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America.
Hormones and behavior
|October 20, 2023
概括
科学研究往往过于简化了生物性别,限制了发现,伤害了边缘化群体. 重新思考"性"作为一个复杂的,多方面的类别对于包容性和准确的科学至关重要.
科学领域:
- 生物科学 生物科学
- 性学性学是指性学和性学.
- 医学研究 医学研究
背景情况:
- 基础科学研究经常采用简化,通常是二元的生物性别模型.
- 这种简化主义的方法忽视了关键的生理变化和复杂性.
- 现有的模型无法解释跨性别,跨性别,非二进制和性别不符合的个体,影响医学研究和实践.
研究的目的:
- 批判性地检查普遍的,简单的使用"性"作为一个变量在科学研究.
- 为科学家提供指导性问题,以解构和重新评估他们关于性别的方法.
- 倡导在科学研究中更细致,更准确地代表性别生理学.
主要方法:
- 该研究涉及对"性"如何被概念化和在科学研究中应用的批判性话语分析.
- 它建立在SBN 2022年关于荷尔蒙和跨性别健康的研讨会的讨论基础上.
- 建议提出指导性问题,以便在整个科学方法中重新评估"性别".
主要成果:
- 科学研究中的现行实践往往依赖于对生物性别的过于简单和二元理解.
- 这种简化导致不同性别生理学的排除,并导致健康差异.
- 依赖简单化的模型可以使有害的医疗实践合法化,并推动歧视性的政治议程.
结论:
- 采用一种认可性别生理学的范式,将其视为多重,相互作用和可变的范式,对于科学进步至关重要.
- 这一转变将提高研究结果的准确性和适用性.
- 它还将有助于防止科学研究对边缘化群体的滥用.
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