[In Context] Beyond the binary

To meet the goal of improving neurological health for all, neurology needs to evolve beyond binary categorisations of sex and gender. Most of the limited neurological research in transgender and gender-diverse individuals has been in transgender men and transgender women,1 reinforcing a binary structure of gender and ignoring millions of individuals worldwide who identify outside binary gender, such as nonbinary or agender people.2,3 Similarly, in sex-based neurological research, the intenĀ­tional inclusion of intersex people is near non-existent.

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