Plastic surgeons urge waiting until age 19 for gender surgery
A major group of U.S. plastic surgeons is now urging doctors to delay gender transition surgeries for young patients until they are at least 19 years old.
Feb 5, 2026
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Mental Disorders: News and Research on Gender Dysphoria
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Why eating disorders are more common among LGBTQIA+ people and what can help
When people picture someone with an eating disorder, many think of a thin teenage girl with anorexia nervosa. This stereotype is so pervasive it can feel like a fact.
Jan 12, 2026
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New research challenges simplistic views on detransition
As access to gender-affirming care has expanded in recent years, public and clinical understandings of gender transition and detransition have remained limited and highly politicized. Anecdotal reports of detransition have ...
Nov 5, 2025
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Very few regret a legal gender change in Sweden, study finds
Fewer than one percent of people who have changed their legal gender choose to revert to the gender they were assigned at birth. This has been shown in a new study from Uppsala University in which the researchers looked at ...
Oct 6, 2025
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UK begins major research effort into trans youth health
A large new study will follow the health and well-being of thousands of transgender and gender nonconforming young people in the U.K., researchers at King's College London announced Thursday.
Aug 5, 2025
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Research reveals transgender Americans fear losing medical care
Gender-diverse individuals not only fear losing their access to gender-affirming care but may resort to self-harm or questionable alternatives if it disappears, according to new research from the University of Vermont (UVM) ...
Jul 16, 2025
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Trump administration may cut funds to hospitals offering gender care to kids
The Trump administration may cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-related treatments to children and teens.
Jul 1, 2025
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Judge says transgender inmates must have access to hormone therapy
A federal judge has ruled that transgender inmates in U.S. prisons must continue getting medical care, including hormone therapy and gender-affirming accommodations.
Jun 4, 2025
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Benefits and risks of trans youth taking sex hormones to better align their bodies with their gender
Triggered by hormonal changes in the brain and body, puberty marks a physical transformation. Estrogen and testosterone—often called "sex hormones"—drive many familiar changes, such as breast development and periods or ...
May 16, 2025
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World first scale to measure gender euphoria among trans community
Melbourne researchers have developed a world-first scale to measure gender euphoria among trans adolescents and adults. And the new tool to assess gender euphoria, a feeling of joy in how a person's gender identity is presented ...
Apr 8, 2025
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