Find below an alphabetized list of further reading/ multi media resources provided by Drs. Ritz and Anderson for those who would like to delve deeper into the topics of sex, gender, gender essentialism, and transness.
Books:
Butler, J. (2024). Who’s afraid of gender? Judith Butler. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Fine, C. (2011). Delusions of gender: How our minds, Society, and neurosexism create difference. W.W. Norton & Company.
Prum, R. O. (2023). Performance all the way down: Genes, development, and sexual difference. The University of Chicago Press.
Podcast Episodes:
Canceling Trans and Anti-Trans Discourses (ft. Julia Serano). Apple Podcasts. (2024, February 22). https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/canceling-trans-and-anti-trans-discourses-ft-julia-serano/id1550508625?i=1000646361910
CBC/Radio Canada. (n.d.). Tested | CBC podcasts | CBC listen. CBCnews. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1733-tested
Gender reveal (Podcast). GENDER REVEAL . (n.d.). https://www.genderpodcast.com/
It’s more complicated: Understanding hormones with dr. Stacey Ritz. Apple Podcasts. (2025, March 28). https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/its-more-complicated-understanding-hormones-with-dr/id1766397933?i=1000701172119
Blogs and Web Articles:
Conrod, K. (2020, December 27). Pronouns 101: Introduction to your loved one’s new pronouns. Medium. https://kconrod.medium.com/pronouns-101-introduction-to-your-loved-ones-new-pronouns-3fef080266d0
Serano, J. (2025, January 15). New video: Debunking myths about trans people & restrooms. Switch Hitter. https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/new-video-debunking-myths-about-trans
Journal Articles:
Ainsworth, C. (2015). Sex redefined. Nature, 518(7539), 288–291. https://doi.org/10.1038/518288a
Anne, F.-S. (2012). Of Spirals and Layers. In Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World (pp. 3–11). essay.
Clancy, K., Fuentes, A., VanSickle, C., & Clune-Taylor, C. (2024). Biology is not binary. American Scientist, 112(2), 78. https://doi.org/10.1511/2024.112.2.78
Karkazis, K. (2019). The misuses of “Biological sex.” The Lancet, 394(10212), 1898–1899. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(19)32764-3
Maney, D. L. (2015). Just like a circus: The public consumption of sex differences. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 279–296. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2014_339
Martin, E. (1991). The Egg and the Sperm: How science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female bodies. Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Rehmann-Sutter, C., Hiort, O., Krämer, U. M., Malich, L., & Spielmann, M. (2023). Is sex still binary? Medizinische Genetik, 35(3), 173–180. https://doi.org/10.1515/medgen-2023-2039
Richardson, S. (2013). Chapter 3: How the X and Y Became the Sex Chromosomes. In Sex Itself: The Search for Male & Female in the Human Genome. essay.
Ritz, S. A. (2017). Complexities of addressing sex in Cell Culture Research. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 42(2), 307–327. https://doi.org/10.1086/688181
Ritz, S. A., & Greaves, L. (2024). We need more-nuanced approaches to exploring sex and gender in research. Nature, 629(8010), 34–36. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01204-3
Van Anders, S. M. (2014). Nomenclature and knowledge-culture, or, we don’t call semen ‘penile mucous.’ Psychology & Sexuality, 5(4), 349–356. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2013.835743
Velocci, B. (2024). The history of sex research: Is “sex” a useful category? Cell, 187(6), 1343–1346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.02.001
