When writing about gender and sex, it is important to understand to what these categories refer. Gender is a social construct and a social identity that encompasses an individual’s attitudes, feelings ...

Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD Androgen insensitivity is an umbrella term for a number of genetic conditions ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To a degree unimaginable a decade ago, the intensely personal subject of gender identity has entered the public square.