A first in France: a trans mum and a trans dad
Trigger warning: if you are easily confused by gender pronouns, this story from France may cause heart palpitations. February 19 saw the birth of Avah,...
Belgium to permit multiple gender ID changes
Belgium will permit people to change their gender identity as often as they want. The Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborne, says that the principle...
Terrifying account of transgender clinic in American clinic by whistleblower
Rachel Levine is an assistant secretary at the US Department of Health and Human Services and the most senior transgender official in the Biden Administration....
Catholic hospital could be forced to perform gender-affirming surgery
The University of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center violated federal law when it refused to provide gender-affirming surgical care to a transgender man (ie, a...
Should the venerable NEJM be renamed?
The world’s most prestigious medical journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, is digging its heels in over the controversial issue of transgender medicine. The...
Gender-affirming medicine: what good is evidence anyway?
In another article on the transgender issue, in the blog of The Hastings Center, three academics from NYU Grossman School of Medicine (including the well-known...
Blood in the water: trial lawyers nibble at transgender medical treatments
Outside of the United States, few people have probably heard that carcinogens have been found in the water at Camp Lejeune, a big Marine Corps...
Lesbian group denounces puberty blockers as “torture and abuse”
President Joe Biden nailed his flag to the LGBTQI+ mast in the lead-up to the midterm elections. Back in June, he described movement towards expanding...
UK steps back from ‘gender affirmation’ for ‘trans kids’
With only two weeks to go before the mid-term elections in the United States, President Joe Biden has come out swinging in favour of trans...
US medical groups demand protection for paediatric transgender doctors and hospitals and gag for social media critics
Three medical organizations have written to US Attorney-General Merrick Garland demanding that he investigate misinformation, threats, and violence which have unnerved doctors and hospitals providing...
Sex-reassignment surgery market in US forecast to soar to US$6 billion
America’s sex reassignment surgery market size was US$1.9 billion in 2021, according to market analyst Grand View Research. It is expected to grow at a...
Transgender medicine standards group authorizes hormones for 9-year-olds
The leading professional group for transgender medicine has released updated standards for treatments which remove age limits for puberty blockers and sex-change surgery. In its...