As Alberta shields its ban on youth gender-affirming care from legal challenge, new research raises urgent questions about the real-world consequences of restricting access.
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Some claim ‘social contagion’ is driving teenagers who were assigned female at birth to identify as transgender and seek medical care.
Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law views it as a legitimate medical treatment.
Puberty blockers don’t necessarily result in a measurable effect at the time they are taken. The main impact is seen when people are older and may need to seek surgery and hormone treatments.
Transgender children and adolescents use puberty blockers to help prevent the masculinising or feminising physical changes that occur during puberty.
On both sides of the transgender care debate, what is presented as ‘fact’ distorts real complexities of gender-affirming health care, leaving many in the dark about what is really at stake.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s anti-trans policies are likely meant to satisfy her base, but her government will now have to go head-to-head with the evidence in future legal battles.
NHS trust could face compensation claims for millions in a litigation of the Tavistock Centre. But what claims would the courts consider?
A wealth of evidence supports the protective mental health effects of gender-affirming care, despite ongoing legislation that asserts otherwise.
Across the US, politicians, activists and transgender people are fighting over the right to access transgender medical care. Rarely is the care itself actually discussed. This is that discussion.
A civil rights scholar looks at the large number of anti-transgender policies being debated and passed in state capitols. They are a staple issue for conservatives who want to rally their base.
Puberty-suppression therapy gives trans teens the gift of time and the ability to attain a more desirable appearance.
Trying to get help for gender dysphoria is rigorous and stressful for young people and their families, it shouldn’t be this way.
So-called “puberty blockers” work by temporarily suppressing the action of a specific hormone in the body.
Transgender children have been the focus of considerable media attention in Australia over the past two years. Much of this has been positive, focused on the rights of transgender children.
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Senior Principal Research Fellow and Group Leader, Transgender Health Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Mount Royal University
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Professor in the Faculty of Business & Communication Studies, Mount Royal University
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Predoctoral researcher in Psychology, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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Clinical Lecturer, Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology, University of Glasgow
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University of Washington
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Professor of Sociology, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
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PhD Candidate in Epidemiology, University of Washington
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Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and co-director of the Child and Adolescent Trans/Gender Center for Health, Boston University
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Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, University of Oxford
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Professor in psychology, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Flinders University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, York University, Canada