Commentary As people from all around the world are gathering this month in New York City for the UN’s annual Commission on the Status of Women, to focus on the theme of “achieving gender equality and empowerment of women and girls” in a variety of settings, I think it’s especially important that we consider the widely embraced flawed understanding of “gender equality” and how this dangerous idea in fact cheats women and girls. I will focus on the body of my work over the past 20 years—focusing on the reproductive bodies of men and women. Until recently, it was universally accepted that there are two sexes—male and female, and any deviations from the male/female binary were variations of maleness or femaleness. That’s the science. That’s human biology. And the two-sex distinction was based on our chromosomes (XX and XY) and our reproductive capacity. Male means you have a penis, testicles, …