For as long as trans medicine has been around, so has its opposition. The tactics of prior waves of anti-trans policies are still in play today.
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The findings push back against the notion that many transgender people end up wishing they hadn’t gone through with gender-affirming surgeries.
Many patients prefer single-gender hospital rooms. For women, this preference often comes from fear, while male patients are concerned with dignity.
How can we ensure ethical research principles for young trans people and their families are met – especially when they might see research as one of few avenues for accessing care?
The rainbow Pride flags flying this month obscure the ongoing legislative attacks threatening the health and well-being of transgender and nonbinary people and their families.
The first transgender medical clinic opened in the US in the 1960s. But cisgender and intersex children began receiving similar treatments even earlier – often without their consent.
While gender-affirming health care is essential to the well-being of trans people, access to quality services varies significantly by geographic region and social context.
Testosterone therapy is often essential for the health and well-being of transmasculine people. The choice to stop it to pursue pregnancy can be a difficult one.
Pain during sex is common, but research on the topic focuses on a narrow heterosexual, cisgender definition of sex, excluding lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people’s experiences.
Bills barring transgender teens from girls’ sports and moves to investigate parents of trans children for potential crimes provide an uncertain and dangerous future for many.
A new IOC framework aims to ensure everyone can practice sport safely and free from harassment, irrespective of their gender or sex-linked traits.
It only takes a few seconds to ask ‘what pronouns do you use’, but knowing and using a person’s correct pronouns can have a big impact on their mental health.
Because little scientific evidence exists for trans medical treatments, doctors are often wary when working with trans people, even if they realize it’s in the patients’ best interests to do so.
Transgender youth have a number of research-backed medical options available to them. The multidisciplinary approach ranges from promoting family support to hormone treatments to surgery.
We have been writing to trans and non-binary prisoners in the UK since before the pandemic began. This is what they say about lockdown.
New guidelines outline language practitioners should use when caring for transgender kids.
We all have a responsibility to improve the well-being of Australian young people, and the current rates of poor mental health in our trans young people aren’t good enough.
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Associate Professor of History, Roanoke College
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NHMRC Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute
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Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor (Sexology), Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University
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Professor, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia
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Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University
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Clinical Psychologist and Research Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Team Leader, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Research Officer, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Associate Professor, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Organisational Theory, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Université de Lausanne
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Associate Professor of Psychology. Clinical Psychologist, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
