Gender dysphoria is not a single experience but a set of trajectories that can begin in childhood or emerge in adolescence. A new study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior analyzed 138 young wome...
Sometimes a person’s clinical picture can only be explained by accepting an uncomfortable idea: that two different genetic causes may be acting at once. That is what the authors of a case report...
Transgender and nonbinary people assigned female at birth face an elevated cardiovascular risk. For years, suspicion has focused on the testosterone used in gender-affirming treatment. But there is an...
A name, pronouns, clothes, a haircut. Social transition —the set of outward changes through which a person affirms their gender identity— is usually imagined as a switch: you flip it once ...
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...
94 studies, 65,608 people, 22 countries. And one figure that sums up years of research: nearly two in three transgender or gender-diverse people have experienced physical or sexual violence at some po...
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...
Sweden, twenty-two years of registries and 9,038 adults with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Of them, 211 died. Compared with the cisgender population, their risk of death was nearly double. A new na...
Nearly a million young people. Twenty-nine studies. One conclusion that forces us to look at the mental health of transgender people with different eyes. A newly published meta-analysis finally quanti...
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...