In a recent landmark ruling in Kenya, a judge has just confirmed that a trans woman’s rights had recently been violated, and in response has ordered his government to either introduce a new transgender rights act or amend the current Intersex Persons Bill. Considering Kenya’s poor track record on queer rights – it criminalizes same-sex […]
In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration filed subpoenas in June on normally confidential patient data from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and nearly 20 other physicians or clinics that provide gender transition services. This action was justified by Attorney General Pam Bondi as necessary for the investigation of “healthcare fraud.” The information included names, […]
Critics of gender-affirming care often point to the growing number of “detransitioners” to support arguments against providing it to minors. Estimates of the number who detransition vary widely and its prevalence may ultimately be unknowable, since detransitioners may break off contact with their former medical providers. York University social work professor (and trans powerlifter) Kinnon […]
Gerika Mudra is a non-trans 18-year-old lesbian woman who is filing a charge of discrimination against a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Minnesota because an employee followed her into the women’s bathroom and tried to prevent her from using it upon suspicion of her being a man. While being harassed Mudra revealed her breasts to […]
Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper opposes both bans on pediatric gender medicine and immediate provision of “gender-affirming” care to any minor who wants it. Instead, she proposes what she calls an “assessment approach” (a term she prefers to “gatekeeping”), involving at least ten hours of meetings with minors and parents, evaluation of other mental health and family […]
Moves to limit minors’ access to medicalized gender transition are not unique to the U.S. and Europe. Under political pressure and tied up in litigation, even Brazil’s leftist government has announced it is rescinding an earlier proposal to lower the age at which hormones can be obtained from 18 to 16 and the age for […]
“Chicks with dicks” is an infamous straight male sexual taste (scientifically known as gynandromorphophilia), but less explored is the corresponding phenomenon of gay men’s attraction to dudes with vaginas (androgynomorphophilia). Not all transmen are – or were – lesbian, and some identify as gay men themselves, with or without a vagina. Sometimes known as “autoandrophilia,” […]
Once known as one of the most homophobic countries in Latin America, Cuba continues to liberalize. Its parliament voted on July 18 to make it easier for trans people to change the gender marker on their ID without having undergone surgery. Gender-transition surgery has nominally been available in Cuba for free since 2008, but dissidents […]
The Trump administration has expanded its assault on pediatric gender medicine, as the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department have announced they are investigating over 20 gender clinics for making fraudulent and deceptive claims about the medical necessity of gender transition for minor patients. In addition, pharmaceutical companies are being investigated for “violations of drug […]
Nations across the globe have had to contend with Donald Trump and his unorthodox (I’m being very generous here) ways of governing the most powerful (although declining) country. Canada, in particular, has been especially tested by the menace south of its border. Francesco MacAllister-Caruso, a PhD candidate at Concordia University, makes a very important point […]
