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Lerch, Irving,
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lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people,
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,
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,
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,
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rights of,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
264

lesbianism,
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attempts to prevent with dexamethasone,
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–
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,
239

see also
homosexuality

lesbians,
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,
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,
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,
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,
264
,
313

and feminism,
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,
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,
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see also
gay marriage

Lewontin, Richard,
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,
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libertarianism,
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,
97

Life in High Heels, A
(Woodlawn),
75

Lifetime television network,
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Limbaugh, Rush,
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Lindee, Susan,
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Linsenmeier, Joan,
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Loftus, Elizabeth,
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,
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,
295

Lolita
(Nabokov),
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Los Angeles Times,
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Lowrance, Hobert E.,
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74

Lyme disease,
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McCloskey, Deirdre,
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McCullough, Larry (Laurence),
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McGee, Glenn,
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,
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McGee, Summer Johnson,
272

McHugh, Paul,
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Magnus, David,
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male-to-female transsexualism,
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–
106
,
268

two type taxonomy of,
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59
,
268

Manchester Guardian
,
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,
296

Mangiano, Aldo,
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Man Who Would Be Queen, The: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism
(Bailey),
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Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth
(Freeman),
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Maria New Children’s Hormone Foundation,
273

Marks, Jim,
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88
,
292

Martins, Lêda,
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Marxism,
4

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press,
117

Mathy, Robin,
106

“maximin strategy,”
see
medicine, “maximin strategy” in

Mayr, Ernst,
232

Mead, Margaret,
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56

assault on reputation of,
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56

Chagnon and,
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,
153

Samoan studies of,
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,
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56

measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine,
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measles epidemic of
1968
,
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,
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,
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74

measles vaccine,
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,
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,
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medicine,
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,
257

“clean up” approach to gender anomalies in,
26

dysfunction in,
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31

ethics of,
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evidence-based,
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“first do no harm” maxim in,
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heterosexist bias in,
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,
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lack of informed consent in,
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“maximin strategy” in,
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modern,
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,
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politics of,
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socialized,
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training in,
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see also
drugs; surgery

men:

cross-dressing among,
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feminine,
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menstruation in,
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straight,
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,
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,
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typical occupations of,
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see also
gay men

Méndez, Juan E.,
265

Menikoff, Jerry,
274

menstruation,
192

absence of,
263

in men,
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signs of,
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mental retardation,
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Meyer-Bahlburg, Heino,
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Michigan, University of,
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Michigan State University,
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Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival,
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Middlesex
(Eugenides),
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Miller, Walter,
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misogyny,
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,
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missionaries,
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Missouri,
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Missouri, University of,
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,
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,
271

Mitchell, Mani,
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Money, John,
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gender-identity theory of,
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,
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
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IRB at,
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,
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Program for the Protection of Human Subjects at,
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Nabokov, Vladimir,
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Nashville Tennessean,
119

National Academies Press,
67

National Academy of Sciences,
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,
187
,
209
,
271

National Center for Transgender Equality,
267

National Geographic,
1
,
140

National Indian Foundation,
see
FUNAI

National Institute of Mental Health,
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National Institutes of Health (NIH),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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grants of,
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,
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National Library of Medicine,
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National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA),
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,
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,
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,
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Natural History,
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,
5

Natural History of Rape, A: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion
(Palmer and Thornhill),
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,
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–
20
,
269

criticism of,
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,
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–
24

nature-nurture debate,
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,
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Navratilova, Martina,
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Nazis,
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,
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scientists likened to,
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,
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,
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Neel, James V., Sr.,
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criticism of,
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Nelson, Robert “Skip,”
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New, Maria,
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NIH grants of,
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see also
dexamethasone

Newman, Jim,
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–
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New York Academy of Sciences,
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New Yorker,
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,
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,
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,
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New York Magazine,
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New York-Presbyterian Hospital,
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,
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New York Review of Books,
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New York Times,
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,
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,
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–
5
,
127

Nixon, John,
261

Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists
(Chagnon),
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North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMbLA),
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Northwestern University,
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