The anti-gender threat: An ethical, democratic, and scientific imperative for NIH research/ers

Anti-gender campaigns in the United States and globally have promoted policies and legislation that significantly limit bodily autonomy for women, transgender, and nonbinary people. This attack on the human rights of women and gender-diverse communities not only reflects implicit and explicit bias b...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 2024-06, Vol.351, p.116349-116349, Article 116349
Main Authors: Perez-Brumer, Amaya, Valdez, Natali, Scheim, Ayden I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anti-gender
Anti-transgender
Biomedical Research - ethics
Female
Gender equity
Humans
Justice-informed research
Male
Misogyny
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Sexism
Transphobia
United States
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Summary:Anti-gender campaigns in the United States and globally have promoted policies and legislation that significantly limit bodily autonomy for women, transgender, and nonbinary people. This attack on the human rights of women and gender-diverse communities not only reflects implicit and explicit bias but also detrimentally impacts population health and well-being. We outline the domestic and global rise of anti-gender campaigns and their deep historical connections to broader forms of discrimination and inequality to argue that there is an ethical, democratic, and scientific imperative to more critically center and contextualize gender in health research. While the inclusion of gender as a complex concept in research design, implementation, and dissemination is important, we emphasize that gender inequities must be understood as inextricable from other systems of discrimination and exclusion. To that end, this commentary outlines two actions: for researchers to advance critical approaches to gender as part of a broader landscape of discrimination, and for the US National Institutes of Health to integrate both sex and gender into funded research. •Urgent democratic and scientific imperative to center gender within health research.•Anti-gender campaigns are advance misogynist, racist and heteropatriarchal relations of power.•Researchers need to examine gender as intersectional to address health inequities.•Need to integrate sex and gender-based analyses across all NIH-funded research.
ISSN:0277-9536
1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116349