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Here are a few excerpts from a book I recently read, "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution," by Cat Bohannon. One-size-fits-all doses of antidepressants are given to men and women, despite evidence that they may affect the sexes differently. Prescriptions for pain medications, too, are considered sex neutral, despite consistent proof that some may be less effective for women. Women are more likely to die of heart attacks, even though they’re less likely to have them—symptoms differ between the sexes, so women and their doctors alike fail to catch them in time. Anesthetics in surgery, treatments for Alzheimer’s, even public education curricula suffer from the ill-conceived notion that women’s bodies are just bodies in general—soft and fleshy, and missing a couple of significant nether bits, but otherwise, just the same as men’s. And of course, nearly all of the studies that produced these findings include only cisgender subjects—in the worl
