1. ★If you prefer narrative chatter, go to my news page.
   

2. ‣“How to Ex- an ‘Ex-Gay’ Study” (Psychology Today)
   

3. ‣My TED talk is now on Netflix and oh my, my talk apparently has now exceeded a quarter-million views
   

4. ‣“Taking the Monsters Out of the Card Catalog” (Psychology Today; originally published as “Monsters and the Ghosts of PubMed” in Atrium)
   

5. ‣Nice shout-out from Dan Savage
   

6. ‣“Are Straight People Born that Way?” (The Atlantic)
   

7. ‣“The Most Scientific Birth Is Often the Least Technological Birth” (The Atlantic)
   

8. ‣Finishing the Book That Didn’t Finish Me After All (One Foot In blog)
   

9. ‣Finally updated my cv (click here if you’d like it)
   

10. ‣“Who’s Policing the Ethicists?” (One Foot In blog)
    

11. ‣“Writing Teachers” (One Foot In blog)
    

12. ‣“Thick with Child: A Guide to Writing When You Have Kids” (One Foot In blog)
    

13. ‣An English-language translation of the BMJ’s “Ten Commandments of the New Therapeutics” for Psychology Today, with an assist from the mate
    

14. ‣Chicago Tribune story on the struggles faced by transgender adults
    

15. ‣Not Dead Yet (One Foot In blog)
    

16. ‣Experimental Status of Prenatal Dexamethasone Reaffirmed (Endocrine Today, with Ellen Feder and Anne Tamar-Mattis)
    

17. ‣Utne Reader has named me a visionary!
    

18. ‣And, in response, my medical school has taken out an ad congratulating me (so sweet)
    

19. ‣Australia’s Passport to Gender Confusion (Bioethics Forum and Psychology Today “Essential Read”)
    

20. ‣“The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age,” now available for free download at SpringerLink
    

21. ‣Charlie and the Bat (One Foot In blog)
    

22. ‣Interview with The Atlantic Monthly
    

23. ‣Chinese eggplant, with a little explanation of the five stitches in my pinky
    

24. ‣My talk at TED.com
    

25. ‣Where Lesbians Are Legal (Psychology Today “Essential Read”)
    

26. ‣Trans Advocates, You’re Doing It Wrong (for a special Queer issue of The Stranger, by invitation of Dan Savage)
    

27. ‣Interviewed for New York Times Magazine article on conjoined twins
    

28. ‣On Naming Names (Bioethics Forum)
    

29. ‣Beware of “Safe and Effective” Claims, Especially When You’re Pregnant (Psychology Today)
    

30. ‣Blotto, Not Beautiful, Medicine (Bioethics Forum). Republished as A Primary Care Doc Walks into a Bar at Psychology Today, and chosen as an Essential Read by the editors.
    

31. ‣Freedom’s Just Another Word for . . . Restriction? (Bioethics Forum)
    

32. ‣Redefining the Sexes in Unequal Terms (New York Times)
    

33. ‣Dr. Oz Can’t Afford Me (Bioethics Forum)
    

34. ‣As much commentary as I have in me on this silly J. Crew pink toenail story (Chicago Tribune)
    

35. ‣Update to my 1998 Hastings Center Report article (Honeypot)
    

36. ‣Me and Princess Kate (One Foot In)
    

37. ‣“Scholars and Scandal” coverage of “Darkness” work (Inside HIgher Ed)
    

38. ‣Dying for Some Standards: Broken Medical Systems as Revealed by a New FDA Warning (Bioethics Forum)
    

39. ‣I make “Five Best Sunday Columns” list with Nicholas Kristof and Maureen Dowd!
    

40. ‣Are Children Dying for an Inch or Two? (Chicago Tribune)
    

41. ‣Wanting Privacy versus Being Ashamed (Psychology Today)
    

42. ‣Hot Times at Northwestern (Psychology Today)
    

43. ‣Time for the American Anthropological Association to Apologize (Bioethics Forum)
    

44. ‣Do Gay Men Have More Sexual Interest in Children than Gay Men Do? (Psychology Today and SR Honeypot)
    

45. ‣The Gratitude Train (One Foot In and Psychology Today)
    

46. ‣Darkness’s Descent on the American Anthropological Association: A Cautionary Tale (Human Nature)
    

47. ‣Editorial on my Darkness paper in Human Nature
    

48. ‣The Tale of Tea with Jim the Third (Bioethics Forum)
    

49. ‣Straight Life with Rainbow Flag (SR Honeypot & Psychology Today)
    

50. ‣Sex Researchers Discover the Clitoris (SR Honeypot)
    

51. ‣Sex Research Honeypot: my new blog, where I have assembled all my online writings on sex
    

52. ‣Fetish or Orientation? The Case of Men Wearing Female Masks (Sex Research Honeypot)
    

53. ‣Does Monogamy Really Drive Us to Drink? (Sex Research Honeypot)
    

54. ‣I got to deliver the TEDx Northwestern inaugural lecture
    

55. ‣Pink Boys with Puppy Dog Tails (Bioethics Forum)
    

56. ‣Big upload of content at and reorganization of fetaldex.org
    

57. ‣The Remains of the AAA (Psychology Today)
    

58. ‣No Science, Please. We’re Anthropologists. (One Foot In and Psychology Today blog)
    

59. ‣Chicago Tribune story on my upcoming TEDx lecture
    

60. ‣Attenuated Thoughts (Bioethics Forum)
    

61. ‣Over to you, Pixie (One Foot In blog)
    

62. ‣Nationalizing IRBs for Biomedical Research--and for Justice (Bioethics Forum)
    

63. ‣ESPN “Outside the LInes” interview on sex testing in sports
    

64. ‣Conversation with Under the Microscope (a publication of The Feminist Press)
    

65. ‣Legal but Unethical: Who Works on That? (Bioethics Forum)
    

66. ‣Who Will Protect Our Children from Bad Drug Experimentation? (Psychology Today)
    

67. ‣Updated speaking topics and speaking engagement list
    

68. ‣The Other July Effect: Tribalism in Medicine (at Bioethics Forum and Psychology Today)
    

69. ‣The Problem with Plagiarism (One Foot In blog)
    

70. ‣Cleaning the Closets of Medicine (Psychology Today)
    

71. ‣Updates on my late summer/fall speaking schedule
    

72. ‣Meet the Hebephiles, the Missing Link between Pedophiles and the Rest of Us . . . Um, Except in Rome (Psychology Today)
    

73. ‣Hot Cosmo Piece Screws Nasty Men! (Psychology Today)
    

74. ‣Notes Home (Psychology Today)
    

75. ‣Just Saying No to Magic Pills (Psychology Today)
    

76. ‣MEDIA ADVISORY on prenatal dex for CAH. If you’re here to read about “anti-lesbian drugs”, please read this advisory.
    

77. ‣Wasn’t publishing supposed to be about new knowledge, or improving human life, or something other than . . . publishing? (One Foot In blog)
    

78. ‣Nature Med blog on the dex story
    

79. ‣Coverage of our new Bioethics Forum post by Dan Savage, Andrew Sullivan, Joe My God, Pam’s House Blend, towleroad, Box Turtle Bulletin, Daily Kos, Huffington Post...
    

80. ‣To Have Is To Hold (an argument against preventing gay children; Psychology Today blog)
    

81. ‣Preventing Homosexuality (and Uppity Women) in the Womb? (Bioethics Forum, with Ellen K. Feder and Anne Tamar-Mattis)
    

82. ‣Toronto Star coverage of “Bad Vibrations”
    

83. ‣Don’t Calm Down Just Yet (Psychology Today blog response to Hanna Rosin’s Slate coverage of our work)
    

84. ‣Time magazine on our prenatal dex work (a must-read for those interested in dex: excellent research and reporting)
    

85. ‣Bad Vibrations (Bioethics Forum, with Ellen K. Feder)
    

86. ‣Can You Hear Us Now? (Psychology Today blog)
    

87. ‣Sugar, Boys, and Sugar Boys (Psychology Today blog)
    

88. ‣Dispatches from that sick little part of my brain that isn’t working on what to cook next (blog)
    

89. ‣Fetishes I Don’t Get: my new Psychology Today blog
    

90. ‣recipe for Number 77
    

91. ‣recipe for tomatillo salsa
    

92. ‣Signs of Mt. Vernon, Iowa
    

93. ‣Sex Typing for Sport (Hastings Center Report)
    

94. ‣Prenatal Dex: Update and Omnibus Reply (Bioethics Forum)
    

95. ‣My Dexy Life (blog)
    

96. ‣updating of my “about” page
    

97. ‣recipe for potato pancakes
    

98. ‣recipe for ratatouille
    

99. ‣recipe for roast lamb (on the grill)
    

100. ‣Of Kinks, Crimes, and Kinds: The Paraphilias Proposal for the DSM-5 (Bioethics Forum)
     

101. ‣Fetal Cosmetology (Bioethics Forum)
     

102. ‣fetaldex.org (read the backstory here and here)
     

103. ‣Sitting Down with Rosa Parks
     

104. ‣Battles on Two Fronts
     

105. ‣Intersex and Sports: Back to the Same Old Game (new Bioethics Forum post)
     

106. ‣Attention Shoppers: LBGT Rights Apparently Not Worth $6.67 to the American Psychological Association (new Bioethics Forum post)
     

107. ‣Science magazine report on my AAA session
     

108. ‣The Fog of Privilege (new blog)
     

109. ‣My “Demonic” Debut at the American Anthropological Association
     

110. ‣“Narrative Disimpaction” essay in Atrium
     

111. ‣Inside Higher Ed write-up of my research
     

112. ‣Chronicle of Higher Ed write-up of my research
     

113. ‣History in the Walls (new blog)
     

114. ‣Quoted in New Yorker piece by Ariel Levy
     

115. ‣New York Times blog mention (accidental double)
     

116. ‣“In the Service of Galileo’s Ghost,” for the History of Science Society Newsletter (by invitation)
     

117. ‣Red Beans & Rice (recipe)
     

118. ‣New York Times editorial by me (third in a series): The Sex of Athletes: One Issue, Many Variables
     

119. ‣Washington Post interview on sex distinctions
     

120. ‣Guinness stew (recipe) with weird centerpiece photo
     

121. ‣The Kid Option (blog)
     

122. ‣Sex at the Office: The Other Problems (blog)
     

123. ‣Does the NFL Need PETA? (new Bioethics Forum post)
     

124. ‣quoted in The Daily Beast
     

125. ‣interviewed by ESPN’s and NPR’s Kevin Blackistone
     

126. ‣“Science is Forcing Sports to Re-Examine Their Core Principles,” New York Times editorial by me
     

127. ‣FAQs on the latest round of media on sex in sports
     

128. ‣Reporting Live from the Hormonal Storm (blog)
     

129. ‣Interview with Runner’s World
     

130. ‣“Where’s the Rulebook for Sex Verification?,” New York Times editorial by me
     

131. ‣My “Good Morning America” appearance on sex-testing in sports
     

132. ‣“Gender Test after a Gold Medal Finish,” New York Times interview
     

133. ‣Portal for sex-testing in sports
     

134. ‣Addicted to Oral (One Foot In blog)
     

135. ‣Medicine Needs a Declaration of Independence from Cosmetic Procedures (Bioethics Forum)
     

136. ‣Interviewed for USA Today, “Cosmetic Surgeries: What Children Will Do to Look ‘Normal’”
     

137. ‣How and Why to Take “Gender Identity Disorder” out  of the DSM (Bioethics Forum)
     

138. ‣Picture of Treacle eating an ice cream cone (anthropomorphic fun with rats)
     

139. ‣new organizing portal called “ideas”
     

140. ‣“humor” portal
     

141. ‣gift ideas portal
     

142. ‣Great Moments in the History of Medicine, no. 1
     

143. ‣Revised bio sketch (updated)
     

144. ‣Podcast with Dan Savage (do NOT click on this if you don’t want to hear blunt sexual chatter between me and Dan; if you do want to listen, it’s episode 136)
     

145. ‣Hermaphroditic Chickens Everywhere (Except Where the Truth Bitch Reigns)
     

146. ‣Podcast on conjoined twins with John Snider of SciFiDimensions
     

147. ‣Minor updates for “Who funds my work”
     

148. ‣updated c.v.
     

149. ‣The Elusive Work/Life Balance, or, Why Mothers Should Get No Special Exceptions in Academia (maybe)
     

150. ‣some chatty updates
     

151. ‣My essay, “Lavish Dwarf Entertainment” chosen for Norton’s Best Creative Non-Fiction!
     

152. ‣Public Service Announcement: Why you can’t be born with “both sets of genitals.”
     

153. ‣Diagrams of genital development and of genital variation
     

154. ‣Named Cornell College Presidential Fellow!
     

155. ‣If You’re Pessimistic, You’re Never Disappointed (or, Meditations on Frequent Travel)
     

156. ‣Progress and Politics in the Intersex Rights Movement”
     

157. ‣A few new recipes (pork tenderloin; chicken dish; bean salad)
     

158. ‣“Gender Identity Disorder in Childhood: Inconclusive Advice to Parents”
     

159. ‣Science: Not Just Another Religion
     

160. ‣I can’t seem to murder anyone around here
     

161. ‣Womb Gay (Bioethics Forum)
     

162. ‣My back porch on Andrew Sullivan’s blog (I took the photo)
     

163. ‣Roger’s Meyer lemon souffle (dairy-free)
     

164. ‣America Gets a Puppy (blog)
     

165. ‣When Medicine Is the Opposition Party (Bioethics Forum)
     

166. ‣Addictions and excuses
     

167. ‣Footnote to a Footnote: On Roving Medicine (Bioethics Forum)
     

168. ‣I’m in a comic!
     

169. ‣The Vulnerable Researcher and the IRB (Bioethics Forum post)
     

170. ‣Letter to an Illinois friend who probably won’t vote
     

171. ‣Link to Max’s Cafe in honor of Max Beck
     

172. ‣The New Objectivity
     

173. ‣Suddenly, I’m a prima donna
     

174. ‣Promoted to full professor -- woo hoo!
     

175. ‣No Regrets (blog)
     

176. ‣Card Games (blog)
     

177. ‣Sleeping with the enmity (reprinted from Atrium)
     

178. ‣Sex Is Good (Bioethics Forum post)
     

179. ‣One Day (One Foot In blog)
     

180. ‣Olympic Problems with Sex Testing (Bioethics Forum post)
     

181. ‣My Favorite Pot (One Foot In blog)
     

182. ‣“The AMA’s Apology: What’s the Benefit?” (Bioethics Forum post)
     

183. ‣Oprah...inside edition (One Foot In blog)
     

184. ‣My brothers’ new t-shirt design, based on a crazy character one of them came up with when we were kids. (I love this shirt! Especially on babies.)
     

185. ‣Summer thoughts on the two cultures (One Foot In blog)
     

186. ‣Postscript to “Informed Dissent” (scroll down)
     

187. ‣Informed Dissent (One Foot In blog)
     

188. ‣The Cocktail Conversations Are Better (I Can’t Speak to the Sex)
     

189. ‣Thanks to Pam Sebrell of S&K Creative Images for the new portraits.
     

190. ‣Guggenheim!!!!
     

191. ‣Lavish Dwarf Entertainment (now at Bioethics Forum)
     

192. ‣Photos and descriptions of Deb Costandine’s art, responding to her experience of giving birth to stillborn conjoined twins she was not allowed to see or hold
     

193. ‣The difference between feminism and identity politics (One Foot In blog)
     

194. ‣Phall-O-Meter (writ large)
     

195. ‣A note on Kiira Triea’s place in the history of intersex activism
     

196. ‣Bye, Max. (We already miss you.)
     

197. ‣Recipe for committee brownies
     

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