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...
Should transphobic patients be given a ‘red card’?
Doctors and medical schools are being provided with detailed guidelines for accommodating the needs of transgender and gender-diverse medical students. For example, the Perelman School...
Threat of class action suit for UK’s Tavistock gender clinic
The UK’s only gender clinic, the Tavistock, has been ordered to close next year over concerns for the safety of its patients. This bad news...
The UK’s only gender clinic will close its doors
Halfway through her investigation into transgender medicine for children in the UK, Dr Hilary Cass has shut down the only gender clinic in the country,...
WHO endorses gender fluidity
The World Health Organization plans to update its guidance on gender to assert that “sex is not limited to male or female.” The guidelines are...
Are children capable of giving informed consent to puberty blockers?
Whether children with gender dysphoria can give informed consent to the medications need to block the onset of puberty is deeply controversial. Many articles have...