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.
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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 baring 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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Research Fellow in Youth Suicide Prevention, Telethon Kids Institute
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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NHMRC Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute
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Clinical Psychologist and Research Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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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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Associate Professor of Social Work, Affiliate Faculty in Sociology and the Center for Gender in Global Context, and Director of the Consortium for Sexual and Gender Minority Health, Michigan State University
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Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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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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Assistant Professor, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Organisational Theory, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Associate Professor in Management, University of Leicester
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Université de Lausanne
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Associate Professor of Psychology. Clinical Psychologist, La Trobe University
