Gender-affirming surgeries have risen markedly over the past fifteen years, yet reversing those procedures remains a poorly understood and, above all, poorly framed field. A new case report in Annals ...
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...
Does gender identity leave a measurable trace in the way we think, remember, or perceive space? A team at the gender identity clinic of a university in Türkiye set out to answer this with a full neuro...
A large national follow-up in the United States suggests that gender-affirming medical care is associated with a significant reduction in posttraumatic stress symptoms among transgender and gender-exp...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Does gender leave a physical imprint on the brain, beyond biological sex? Researchers at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) have detected in the general population an “inverted” pattern in the whi...