A new US Food and Drug Administration draft guidance clarifies the difference between sex and gender, acknowledging the agency has often used the terms interchangeably and imprecisely in the past.
US FDA Attempts To Parse Sex Vs. Gender, But Will Politics Interfere?
The draft guidance clarifies that sex and gender are not interchangeable, but could be vulnerable in the Trump Administration as Republicans have argued against transgender medical care and that sex and gender must be congruent.
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