Which Side Are You On?

David Fahrenthold reports for the Washington Post that “in some unusual cases, resulting from sex-change operations or medical conditions, the usual indicators of male and female can contradict each other in the same body.”

Success Is in Her DNA

Liza Mundy reports for the Washington Post that “twenty-five years ago, as an exceptionally gifted graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, [the Nobel Peace Prize winner Carol] Greider, now 48, visited her lab to check an experiment, and discovered evidence of an enzyme called telomerase.”

Girl in Tuxedo Denied a Place in School Yearbook

Chris Joyner reports for the USA Today: “Veronica Rodriguez describes her daughter, 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis, as ‘a perfect child’…Sturgis also is gay and feels more comfortable in boys’ clothes, her mother says.”

Lost in Space Race: Female Pilots

Writing for USA Today, Dan Vergano reports: “Women had the ‘right stuff,’ too, back in the ’60s. But the data on their performance tests were buried in the Mad Men era, and it was two decades before there was an American female astronaut.”