Study results into puberty blocker drugs prescribed as a treatment to transgender people will not be published just yet says lead researcher Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy. She is concerned the US federal-funded research findings could be “weaponised” to oppose gender-transition drugs for minors, as the debate over “gender-affirming care” reverberates through political and medical spheres. “I Read more
Scotland’s only gender clinic for minors is formally pausing the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone medications that are designed to facilitate gender transitions for children after a review commissioned by the English government questioned the efficacy of those practices. This announcement effectively ends the practice of providing sex-change drugs and hormone medications to children Read more
When I was studying political science in graduate school, I was surrounded by students who were much smarter than me. Most of my fellow students at the University of California Berkeley went to Ivy League schools as undergraduates. They were well read, articulate and confident. When they asked where I went to school, I responded, Read more
Doctors in England can no longer prescribe puberty blockers to children to facilitate a gender transition, according to an announcement from the country’s public health care system, the National Health Service (NHS). “Puberty blockers … are not available to children and young people for gender incongruence or gender dysphoria because there is not enough evidence Read more