Defining and Collecting Sex/Gender Data in the Census: Queer Conflicts, Concept Capture and Category Co-option
Social & Legal Studies Blog,
Ben CollierScience, Technology, and Innovation StudiesUniversity of…
Anti-Trans Bills Are Sweeping the US Despite, Not Because of, Public Opinion
Jacobin Mag,
The coordinated attack on trans rights in state legislatures across the US is built on a foundation of hateful paranoia and…
How social transition damages children
Christian Concern,
Is it good to treat children as if they are members of the opposite sex? Some people think there’s no harm in switching pronouns…
G.O.P. State Lawmakers Push a Growing Wave of Anti-Transgender Bills
NYT > Politics,
Four states could ban transition care into young adulthood. Lawmakers in several others want to restrict drag shows in ways…
Inmates who are male-to-female Trans drive an increase in rapes and abuses in women’s prisons
Whats New,
Women’s rights groups warn of an increase in male-to-female trans prisoners serving time in women’s prisons despite increasing…
Gender-Affirming Care is Not Experimental, Part II
Science-Based Medicine,
A lot of the "facts" about providing healthcare to transgender youth turn out to be not actually facts. We present here a…
Irreversible Damage to the Trans Community: A Critical Review of Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (Part Two)
Science-Based Medicine,
Part 2 of the review of Abigail Shrier's "Irreversible Damage" provides insight into her harmful beliefs about trans youth with…
‘Born to be’ (Tania Cypriano, USA, 2019)
Medical Humanities,
Film Review by Keerthi Gondy, B.S., a fourth-year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Mi. …
[ACC Entry] Should Transgender Children Transition
Slate Star Codex,
[Content note: suicide, depression, transphobia, self-harm] Transgender childhood transition is a hotly debated topic, with…
Pence secretly drafted Trump’s latest transgender military ban
ThinkProgress » Climate Progress,
When President Trump announced a new ban on transgender people serving in the military late Friday, it was somewhat of a…
Mental illness and neurobiological correlates in the transgender population
The Mental Elf,
Dean Connolly publish their debut blog on a literature review of transgender research, which reports on the prevalence of…
Conservative book ‘When Harry Became Sally’ attacks trans people while conveniently leaving them out
ThinkProgress,
None of the “early praise” reviews for author Ryan T. Anderson’s new book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the…
Inner Sense and Gender Dysphoria
Bioethics.net,
Steve Phillips posted on “Caring for people with gender dysphoria” almost one year ago. In his post, he referenced a talk at a…
What’s the Scientific Basis for Transgender Healthcare?
Berman Institute Bioethics Bulletin,
By Theo…
Bruce Jenner, Paul McHugh, and Transgender Denialism
Skeptoid,
The media has been full of speculation recently about whether or not Bruce Jenner is transitioning to live life as a female (and…