Gender identity is not only a social experience: it also leaves a trace in biology. And not just in the brain or in hormones. A team at Emory University in Atlanta has found that the bacteria colonisi...
Most debates about puberty blockers focus on two things: mental health and bone density. But there is a question that worries many families and adolescents and that is hardly ever discussed: what happ...
Gender-affirming hormone therapy visibly changes the body of transgender women, but what happens inside, at the molecular level, had remained largely a mystery. An international team has this time loo...
Gender dysphoria remains a largely unexplored territory for neurobiology. One of the most promising avenues runs through oxytocin, a neuropeptide known for modulating social cognition and emotional pr...
The brain pattern that has been linked to gender identity in trans women is not exclusive to Europe or the United States. A new study carried out in Thailand confirms that this cortical phenotype repe...
One of the questions that worries people starting gender-affirming hormone therapy most is that of cardiovascular risk. In transgender women it has long been known that oestrogen can raise the likelih...
Does the brain of a transgender person resemble more the sex assigned at birth, or the gender with which they identify? It is one of the central questions of the neuroscience of gender dysphoria, and ...
Klinefelter syndrome is a genetic condition in which a person is born with an extra X chromosome: a 47,XXY karyotype instead of the usual 46,XY. That extra copy usually goes hand in hand with an atten...
They are a reversible treatment, approved decades ago for precocious puberty and later extended to adolescent gender dysphoria. And yet few drugs in modern medicine are so surrounded by political cont...
How and when gender identity takes shape is one of the central questions in research on gender dysphoria. A new study based on data from the largest Chinese national survey on transgender health, publ...
The medical treatment of gender affirmation in adolescents — defined as the period from the onset of puberty until the age of 18 — has become one of the most debated areas of medicine today. An articl...
Gender-affirming hormone therapy does not only change the body: it also influences emotional state. A new prospective study from Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) has followed 30 transgend...