A 2019 paper by stef shuster found providers often substituted gatekeeping for informed consent in the practice of transgender healthcare.

Of those who discontinued medical treatments such as hormone therapy, a new study found that 80 percent continued to endorse a trans identity.

We asked providers and researchers what the open questions in gender-affirming medicine were. Their answers might surprise you.

Questions surround changes to the methodology of several systematic reviews of gender-affirming treatments for minors by York University.

Two models of gender-affirming care provision are currently in conflict. What does the research say?

Viewing mastectomy as a loss or diminishment of health makes little sense when you consider the lifetime risk of breast cancer is a whopping 1 in 8.

Is it right or wrong to feed a newborn babe? Two very different answers from the trans community and their opponents on the right.

A paper in the journal Hormones and Behavior calls on researchers to move beyond the binary.

The largest ever survey of the trans community provides a picture of intense discrimination and high life satisfaction. Also, some stuff we just found interesting!

Viewed as medicine, the treatments are remarkable only in their ability to give hope to patients with no other evidence-based treatment.

The rare procedure was successfully performed in the U. K. for the first time. Experts say it will be 10 - 20 years before trans women could benefit.

From Marci Bowers to Thomas Steensma, experts say no evidence to support a social contagion or two distinct groups of patients with gender dysphoria with different needs has been found.

Everything you ever wanted (or didn’t want) to know about trans women and breastfeeding.

The authors of the latest article on detransition misled readers about the research and obscured the extreme beliefs of their main anecdotal example, Chris Beck.

Criticism of the research on transition and regret often introduces anecdotes and qualitative studies about detransition that themselves do not attempt to meet the high standard of longitudinal data being proposed for transition research.

The Washington Examiner thinks they’ve finally caught us wascally twanses.