France slams on transgender brakes
While the Biden Administration has uncritically embraced the necessity of “gender-affirmative” medicine for American adolescents, other countries are slamming on the brakes. In France the...
Transgender wars
The right to transition to a different gender dominates coverage of transgender issues in the media. Less well known is a growing movement of “detransitioners”,...
Biden backs abortion rights and transgender treatment for minors in his State of the Union address
President Joe Biden dug in his heels over two controversial bioethical issues in his State of the Union address on Wednesday. He began by giving...
Texas will treat transgender treatments as ‘child abuse’
Texas could prosecute parents who allow their children to change their gender as child abusers, says its governor, Greg Abbott. In a letter sent this...
Trans kids are using GoFundMe to pay for their transitions
The internet crowdfunding site GoFundMe does not hesitate to cancel fund-raising efforts which it deems objectionable. It froze millions of dollars in an account supporting...
Does transgender medicine have a sound philosophical foundation?
There are many angles from which to study the phenomenon of the transgender movement – psychological, sociological, historical, medical, political … -- but surely the...
Folx, abortion is OK but transphobic pronouns are not OK
Dispatch from the Reproductive Revolution. Quinn Jackson, MD, (they/he) is a family medicine physician in Kansas City, Missouri, and a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive...
This is probably the world’s biggest surrogacy family
February was the last time BioEdge visited Christina Ozturk and her husband Galip at their home in the Black Sea resort city of Batumi, Georgia....
Transwomen may have a right to be pregnant, argue bioethicists
Do transgender women (ie, natal males) have a right to experience pregnancy? Two Italian doctors from the University of Rome Sapienza argue in Acta Biomedica...
US joins list of countries offering non-binary passports
The United States has begun issuing passports for gender-nonconforming people.
‘The Lancet’ enters the transgender word wars
The word “bizarre” is becoming increasingly shop-worn in articles about the transgender movement, but it’s difficult to find a more accurate and less offensive synonym....
Appeals court overturns landmark gender ruling in UK
A landmark British case about transgender treatment for under-16s has been overturned. The Tavistock Trust, which runs the UK’s only gender identity development service (GIDS)...