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Transgender Topics

Gender Affirming Care

What is Gender Affirming Care

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/what-gender-affirming-care-your-questions-answered

Gender Affirming Care and Mental Health Outcomes        

Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care | Adolescent Medicine | JAMA Network Open

Association of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy With Depression, Thoughts of Suicide, and Attempted Suicide Among Transgender and Nonbinary Youth - Journal of Adolescent Health

Association Between Gender-Affirming Surgeries and Mental Health Outcomes

Mental Health of Transgender Children Who Are Supported in Their Identities | Pediatrics

Puberty Blockers and Trans Suicide Rate

Pubertal Suppression for Transgender Youth and Risk of Suicidal Ideation - PMC

Safety of Puberty Blockers

Pubertal blockers for transgender and gender-diverse youth - Mayo Clinic

Do children retransition?

Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition | Pediatrics

2015 trans survey

https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf

Gender Affirmation Surgery

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/21526-gender-affirmation-confirmation-or-sex-reassignment-surgery

0.3% Detransition Rate

"Regret after Gender Affirming Surgery - A Multidisciplinary Approach to a Multifaceted Patient Experience" 

Number of kids who receive GAH

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/

Biological & Sociological

How Common is Intersex

How common is intersex? a response to Anne Fausto-Sterling

How Common are redheads

Red Hair, Blue Eyes: How Common Is the Genetic Combination?

Transgender individuals throughout history

Intersex Individuals and Transitioning in Ancient Rome – UnRoman Romans

David Reimer (Raised a Girl)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

Sex Vs Gender

What Is Sex? - Neuroscience - NCBI Bookshelf

Gender Dysphoria:

Psychiatry.org - Expert Q&A: Gender Dysphoria

Psychiatry.org - What is Gender Dysphoria?

Age at First Experience of Gender Dysphoria Among Transgender Adults Seeking Gender-Affirming Surgery | Endocrinology | JAMA Network Open 

Studies on Transgender people's brain

Specific cerebral activation due to visual erotic stimuli in male-to-female transsexuals compared with male and female controls: an fMRI study

Sports advantages

Effect of gender affirming hormones on athletic performance in transwomen and transmen: implications for sporting organizations and legislators | British Journal of Sports Medicine 

Gender Development

Patterns of Gender Development - PMC

Bone Safety During the First Ten Years of Gender-Affirming Hormonal Treatment in Transwomen and Transmen 

 

Politics & Policy

REPUBLICAN ATTACK ON LGBTQIA+ Community

GOP lawmakers push historic wave of bills targeting rights of LGBTQ teens, children and their families

Florida “Don’t Say Gay Bill”

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1557/BillText/er/PDF

Legislative Attacks on LGBTQ rights

https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights

Transgender people more likely to face assault

Transgender people over four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime - Williams Institute