The sexual development of an embryo does not depend on a single instruction, but on a chain of signals that must fire in the right order and the right place. When one link in that chain fails, develop...
Erasing identity does not heal: that is the conclusion pointed to by the largest systematic review assembled to date on so-called “conversion therapies,” the practices that seek to force a...
Gender-affirming testosterone is a cornerstone of hormonal treatment for many transgender men, yet its effect on genital tissue remains an under-discussed topic. A new study in The Journal of Sexual M...
Gender-affirming hormone therapy is no longer a brief stage in the life of a transgender person. As the general population ages, more and more trans and gender-diverse (TGD) people reach 60, 70 and be...
Research on trans people usually answers a question posed from the outside: what happens to them, what is good for them, what the data say. This paper reverses the direction of that gaze. It is the fi...
Gender dysphoria —the distress that arises when gender identity does not match the sex assigned at birth— absorbs almost all clinical research. Its opposite face, gender euphoria, had bare...
Can certain genes explain part of gender dysphoria? Genetics has spent years trying to answer this question and accumulating clues. The latest comes from a Turkish team, which analyzed the DNA of a gr...
Adolescence is the critical window in which most of the bone mass of a lifetime is accumulated. That is why any treatment that interferes with this process raises legitimate doubts. A new meta-analysi...
What happens to the set of proteins circulating in the blood when a transgender person begins feminizing hormone therapy? An international team led from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute...