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The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
The government has provided little information about its allegations or about the criminal charges it is seeking to pursue against transgender care providers.
Some claim ‘social contagion’ is driving teenagers who were assigned female at birth to identify as transgender and seek medical care.
For some trans and gender diverse adolescents, physical changes in puberty can be distressing and lead to a sense of disconnection from their true sense of self.
While it doesn’t constitute a national ban on gender-affirming care for minors, the executive order contains provisions that could have a chilling effect on health care providers around the country.
These relative political newcomers have slim records on many issues, but an expert’s resume check shows Trump and Vance both have used their short times in office to oppose or roll back LGBTQ rights.
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.
Improving the health of people who are trans and gender diverse means improving access to family doctors who are supportive, competent and confident in providing access to gender-affirming care.
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.
The closure of the virtual Connect-Clinic means fewer trans and non-binary people will get the vital health-care services they need.
Providing appropriate care for both cisgender women and trans and nonbinary people need not be mutually exclusive.
Sexual transmission was suspected in around 90% of transgender women patients but only in 61% of cisgender women and non-binary patients.
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.
A wealth of evidence supports the protective mental health effects of gender-affirming care, despite ongoing legislation that asserts otherwise.
The survey also found that trans people who live in their affirmed gender report experiencing less stigma, anxiety and depression.
Trying to get help for gender dysphoria is rigorous and stressful for young people and their families, it shouldn’t be this way.
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Senior Principal Research Fellow and Group Leader, Transgender Health Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Research Fellow, Transgender Health Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Associate Professor of History, Roanoke College
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PhD Candidate in Epidemiology, University of Washington
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PhD candidate in English and research assistant with the Trans Research and Navigation Saskatchewan (TRANS) project, University of Saskatchewan
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Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Reproduction, University of Waterloo
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University of Washington
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Professor of Infection and Inequities, Centre for Immunobiology, Blizard Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Ontario
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Drexel University
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PhD Candidate, Social Dimensions of Health, University of Victoria
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Associate Professor, University of Warwick
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Medical Student, Queen's University, Ontario
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, William & Mary
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Assistant Professor and Registered Midwife, Coventry University