Gender-affirming hormone therapy does not simply change appearance or the endocrine balance: its effects reach as far as the way cells regulate DNA without altering its letters. One open question was ...
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...
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...
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...
That many people with gender dysphoria describe trouble concentrating is not just a subjective impression. A new study suggests that this distress may be physically «wired» through a speci...