In January of 2025, President Trump signed an executive order targeting active-duty and prospective service members with gender dysphoria. Since then, multiple lawsuits have been filed against the order. Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military service is unconstitutional. Judge Robert Wilkins in […]
Losing Time While Doing Time: Is Egg Freezing a Reproductive Right?
Rachel Smith is currently incarcerated in Queensland, Australia. She is serving a ten-year sentence for drug trafficking. Since she will be between 39 and 41 years old when she is released, she sought to freeze her eggs while in prison but was denied because Queensland law treats egg freezing as a form of assisted reproductive […]
Gender Reassignment and Eating Disorders
Previous scholarship has noted an elevated incidence of eating disorders among adolescents who present with gender dysphoria, and has posited that the eating disorders are a response to the patient’s discomfort with their developing body. A study of all 2,080 adolescents seeking gender reassignment in Finland from 1996 to 2019 confirms that eating disorders are […]
University Rejects Textbook in Human Sexuality Course for Images of Sex
The University of Nebraska at Kearney (a branch campus in a very conservative part of the state) has pulled a textbook from its Human Sexuality course after a student complained that the book exposed her to “pornography.” Discovering Human Sexuality, published by Oxford University Press and lead-authored by noted neuroscientist Simon LeVay, is in its […]
Shoot a Sex Offender, Become the Sheriff
Second-degree murder charges were dismissed against an Arkansas man who shot an alleged sex offender attempting to kidnap his 13-year old daughter. Although the exact circumstances of the shooting remain unclear, the judge justified his dismissal due to the loss of possibly relevant video evidence. However, public backlash may have also influenced the decision. In […]
Adolescent Experiences Create the Libido Gap in Adults
It has long been recognized that men have stronger sexual desire than women, and this discrepancy is often attributed to innate biological and evolutionary causes. However, an article recently published in the Personality and Social Psychology Review argues that the difference in sexual desire is a learned behavior with its origin in adolescent sexual experiences: […]
Montreal Sex Workers Strike During Grand Prix Weekend
During Montreal’s F1 weekend, the city’s sex workers working in clubs went on strike to protest working conditions and practices. The timing of the strike was significant as the F1 weekend is one of the busiest times of the year for the city’s clubs. The striking workers are pushing back against their status as independent […]
Half of Gen Z Frenchwomen Think Sex is Unimportant
The French Institute of Public Opinion surveyed 1,011 women aged 18-29. Only 38% felt that sex was very important, compared to 62% in 1990, and half said it was not that important in their lives. 62% of women aged 20-24 said they sometimes felt bored during sex, compared to only 42% in 1996. The authors […]
The Fruit Machine
Frank Robert Wake was a former professor at Carleton University who was involved in secret Cold War-era research targeting queer people. He was chair of the Psychology Department at the time and was infamously known for his “fruit machine”, a “battery of psychological tests, including techniques to measure a person’s output of sweat and detect […]
Detransitioner Wins Settlement from Therapists
A 36-year old Oregon woman who had a double mastectomy six years ago in response to adopting a non-binary identity and then detransitioned 18 months later sued the two therapists who recommended the procedure after telemedicine appointments of less than one hour each. She accused them of malpractice for failing to take into account her […]