A study published in 2026 in the journal Scientific Reports (from the Nature group) offers new data on the brain activity of transgender women, a group for which neuroscientific evidence remains scarc...
The voice is one of the most visible markers of gender identity, and having it align with each person’s lived gender profoundly influences their psychological well-being. A new study published i...
Sex hormones influence many bodily processes beyond sexual characteristics, and one of the most relevant is insulin sensitivity—that is, the ability of cells to respond to this hormone and take up glu...
Hormone therapy is one of the cornerstones of gender-affirming treatment in people with gender incongruence, but many questions remain open about its medium- and long-term effects on health. A team fr...
A new study published in 2026 in the journal Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience provides one of the most detailed descriptions to date of how brain circuits are organized in people with gender incongr...
Research published in 2026 in Communications Psychology (Nature Portfolio) examines how knowledge about the development of gender identity influences support for the autonomy of transgender minors and...
A review published in Anales de Pediatría (Elsevier), with the participation of researcher Rosa Fernández among its authors, addresses a central question in the scientific and clinical debate: whether...
A network meta-analysis published in 2026 in the International Journal of Transgender Health has analyzed the length of the polymorphic CAG repeat of the androgen receptor (AR) gene in transgender and...
A case series published in 2026 in the Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism describes three cases with genetic confirmation of 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 3 deficiency (HSD17B3)...
Published in Sexual Medicine, this study employs whole exome sequencing (WES) to identify genetic susceptibility loci in transgender individuals, a step toward the molecular characterization of the bi...