Transgender Health
Feature
Debate heats up on how best to treat gender-questioning kids
Debate is intensifying about how best to treat gender dysphoria, with further restrictions on hormone treatment use in the under 18s in some U.S....
Latest News
Proposed insurance policy ignites debate over transgender health care
A trade association for health insurance companies said the nondiscrimination framework is overly broad and limits insurers’ abilities to design...
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LGBTQ parents fare worse giving birth
Although differences in demographic and clinical factors explain some of the poorer outcomes among gender and sexual minority patients giving...
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Referrals to gender clinics in Sweden drop after media coverage
The programs may have influenced and jeopardized young transgender individuals’ access to transgender-specific health care.
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Hormone therapy in transgender teens linked to better adult mental health
But study is based on a survey with limitations, and other outcomes didn’t improve.
Opinion
Detransition, baby: Examining factors leading to ‘detransitioning’ and regret in the transgender community
Comments about the finality of gender-affirmative procedures by cisgender people reveal a more deep-seated issue – general distrust of individual...
Opinion
Changing terminology in LGBTQ+ spaces: How to keep up with the lingo
By paying attention to how people define and use terminology, we can better recognize their true identities and become better providers.
Guidelines
WPATH draft on gender dysphoria ‘skewed and misses urgent issues’
New draft standards of care for treating people with gender dysphoria by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has...
From the Journals
Risk for severe COVID-19 and death plummets with Pfizer booster
These findings came from two studies completed before the advent of the Omicron variant.
Commentary
LGBTQ health care: There is reason to be hopeful
“LGBTQ/rainbow health has been harmfully treated by the system, by both intention and by ignorance.”
From the Journals
‘Top’ surgery for trans youth: Advance or dangerous medicine?
Ms. Clayton draws parallels with experimental medicine performed on homosexuals in the 20th century.