The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on August 07, 2017, 08:22:26 am
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Born This Way? Researchers Explore the Science of Gender Identity
Aug. 3, 2017, at 1:12 a.m.
By Daniel Trotta
NEW YORK (Reuters) - While President Donald Trump has thrust transgender people back into the conflict between conservative and liberal values in the United States, geneticists are quietly working on a major research effort to unlock the secrets of gender identity.
A consortium of five research institutions in Europe and the United States, including Vanderbilt University Medical Center, George Washington University and Boston Children's Hospital, is looking to the genome, a person's complete set of DNA, for clues about whether transgender people are born that way.
https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2017-08-03/born-this-way-researchers-explore-the-science-of-gender-identity