SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Study Finds No Link Between Testosterone Levels and Reduced Cognitive Empathy. “A new study contradicts the hypothesis that higher testosterone levels are the reason for impaired cognitive empathy in autism spectrum disorder. The research, which involved nearly 650 men, found no association between testosterone and cognitive empathy, the capacity to read the emotions of others, a trait that is characteristically impaired in people with autism. The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.”

Flashback: “This sort of hormone-shaming is not okay.”