A new study, funded by the World Health Organization, has brought together the available evidence on healthcare for adults with gender incongruence. The main conclusion is clear: the medical care thes...
In the collective imagination, breast cancer is almost always associated with a particular patient profile. But the clinical reality is much broader and, for years, data on this disease in transgender...
The human body does not treat testosterone and oestradiol as mere messengers of reproduction: these hormones travel throughout the organism and also communicate with the immune system. A group of rese...
On average, how long does a transgender person live compared with the rest of the population? Until now, the answers were based mainly on small studies or studies from specific countries. A new nation...
What happens to the mental health of adolescents who attend specialised gender identity services? A nationwide study carried out in Finland, published in Acta Paediatrica, has analysed medical records...
For a long time, sex has been discussed as if it were a switch that can only be in two positions. The genetics of development, however, tells a more nuanced story. An international team coordinated by...
Gender-affirming hormone therapy has been the subject of debate for years, and one of the questions that most concerns the medical community is its effect on the heart and blood vessels. New research ...
Adolescence is the critical window in which most of the bone mass of a lifetime is accumulated. That is why any treatment that interferes with this process raises legitimate doubts. A new meta-analysi...
Could genetics have something to do with gender identity? For decades it was an almost taboo question, but science has been gathering clues for years. A recent study published in Scientific Reports (a...