Sex, not gender

Terminology · 11 July 2026

Look closely at a FemHealth result and you will see the word sex, not gender. That is deliberate, and it follows NIH and CIHR convention. What the two words mean, why a study can address one and not the other, and why the distinction is not pedantry.

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