Louis Davies And Jamie Eagle, Transgender Couple, Won't Marry Until Gender...
A young British transgender couple is making headlines after vowing not to wed until they complete gender confirmation surgery. Louis Davies, 25, and 20-year-old Jamie Eagle say they are planning to...
View ArticleSmith College Plans Committee To Address Transgender Student Applicants
Smith College's gender and sexuality advocacy organization Q&A recently delivered a petition with 4,000 signatures to the university's admission's office in support of a transgender woman, Calliope...
View Article'I am a girl': Transgender children � born, they say, with the wrong bodies...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — She is only 6 years old. Already the child who sits, legs tucked, on a canopied bed near a closet filled with princess dresses has lost her best friends. Kids who used to ask A.J. to...
View ArticleJazz, 11-Year-Old Transgender Girl, Talks To Barbara Walters
That first schoolyard crush can challenge even the most confident of tweens, but when the child in question is transgender, it can present an entirely unique set of hurdles. On a special edition of...
View ArticlePhilip Porter, Former Transgender Woman: 'I Was An NFL Cheerleader' (VIDEO)
Texas native Philip Porter spoke to HuffPost Live about his apparent decision to transition back to his birth sex (male) after living for 32 years as a transgender woman. "I was born male, and always...
View ArticleCommon Sense, Faith-Based Celebration of Gender Minorities
The upcoming proposal to ban recognition of transgender (including intersex) identities by the Southern Baptist Convention, though put forth by a college professor of ethics, is neither well-educated...
View ArticleCalifornia Transgender Student Rights Bill Clears State Assembly
A bill that would provide transgender students equal access to facilities and programs based on their gender identity cleared California's state assembly Thursday, marking a major step forward for a...
View ArticlePediatricians see growing number of crosss-gender kids like Coy Mathis
Coy Mathis, 6, talks with her dad, Jeremy, in front of the state Capitol on Thursday. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post) Experts say increasing numbers of little kids are showing up in doctors offices...
View ArticleThe Complete Glossary of Facebook’s 51 Gender Options
For ten years, the social network limited billions of people identifying as either male or female. Now there are dozens of terms to pick from. Here’s how to understand them all. Imagine you’re a man....
View ArticleAnn & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital Of Chicago Set To Open Gender...
The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, a pediatric teaching hospital for Northwestern University's medical school, will launch the first gender identity clinic focusing on...
View ArticleTransgender children know their identity. Bigots in the media don't
'NHS to give sex change drugs to children' screamed the newspaper headlines last week. The reality is so different for families dealing with the condition known as gender dysphoria. Here, a mother...
View ArticlePediatricians see growing number of cross-gender kids like Coy Mathis
Coy Mathis, 6, talks with her dad, Jeremy, in front of the state Capitol on Thursday. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post) Experts say increasing numbers of little kids are showing up in doctors offices...
View ArticleLana Wachowski, Transgender 'Cloud Atlas' Director, Reveals Painful...
Lana Wachowski is one of the top directors in Hollywood. She and her brother, Andrew, are behind films like "The Matrix,""V for Vendetta" and "Cloud Atlas." These films have gained her critical...
View ArticleGender pioneers wage war with law and officialdom
Paige Phoenix is taking his case to be legally recognised as a man to the UN. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones Rise in gender change youth In all the ways that matter to him Paige Phoenix is a man. The...
View ArticleNormal or not? When one's gender identity causes distress
The latest edition of the mental health manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose disorders reveals a change in thinking on gender identity. The perspective change is similar to a decision made in 1973,...
View ArticleBorn as a girl
New man … upholsterer Danny King, father to a two-year-old boy, grew up as a female. Photo: Susan Wright Danny king is an upholsterer with blond hair and a ginger beard. The 31-year-old is also father...
View ArticleSome Basic Propositions About Sex, Gender and Patriarchy
Within feminism there has been for decades an often divisive debate about transgenderism. With increasing mainstream news media and pop culture attention focused on the issue, understanding that...
View Article>Transgender advocates seek new diagnostic terms
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Does a woman who strongly believes she was meant to be a man have a mental condition or a medical problem? Is a man who cross-dresses in need of psychological help? What about a...
View ArticleTransgender advocates seek new diagnostic terms
Does a woman who strongly believes she was meant to be a man have a mental condition or a medical problem? Is a man who cross-dresses in need of psychological help? What about a boy who pretends to be...
View ArticleCross-Gender Identity Among Children: Psychological Challenges
Experts say increasing numbers of children are showing up in doctors offices insisting they were born into the body of the wrong sex. "We're seeing it all across the state," said Dr Daniel Reirden, a...
View ArticleMedical issues for transgendered people go beyond surgery
Story Highlights Many transgender people say they've always identified with the opposite sexPsychiatrists no longer view being transgender as a mental illnessMore insurance plans now cover gender...
View ArticleOhio parents begin hormone therapy on 9-year-old ‘transgender’ son
“It just comes down to love. I mean, if you love your child then you should do anything in the world for your child. And it’s as simple and as pure as that.” The words are those of Emily LeVan who,...
View ArticleCalls to help sex-change kids as demand for gender reassignment soars
The number of children accessing medical treatment to help them change gender has increased 60-fold, leaving Australia’s only clinic for transgender young people struggling to cope with the rise in...
View ArticleDrug treatments for transgender kids pose difficult choices for parents, doctors
While no one knows how many American children have gender identity disorder, increasing numbers are being treated for a condition long ignored or denied by parents and pediatricians. “There’s no...
View ArticleAdvances in the Treatment of Transgender Children and the Hurdles Yet to be...
This past week has seen the publication of two important research papers dealing with transgender children. The first, from Amsterdam's world famous Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria at VU...
View ArticleNew clinic helps transgender kids 'decide who they may be'
CHICAGO — At about age 6, there was dissonance in Jae's life. "I started to play with dolls and to do all these things that girls would do," Jae said. "But people would say, 'Why are you doing that?...
View ArticleThe 13th Colloque Médecine et Recherche of the Fondation Ipsen in the...
(Source: Ipsen SA) Press release The 13th Colloque Médecine et Recherche of the Fondation Ipsen in the Endocrinology series: "Brain Crosstalk in Puberty and Adolescence" Paris (France), 3rd December...
View ArticleThe 13th Colloque Médecine et Recherche of the Fondation Ipsen in the...
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--We all have experience of the turbulence of adolescence: the physical, psychological and social changes involved in the key transitional phase between childhood and adulthood....
View ArticleForced through puberty in 'wrong body'
A transgender woman has criticised the New Zealand health system for not diagnosing her with gender dysphoria and denying her treatment to block puberty which would have prevented her from becoming...
View ArticleWhy Transgender Teens Want Medicaid to Help Pay to Block Puberty
Many transgender teenagers dread puberty, and not just because of the pimples and squeaky voices. As bodies start to change, children slowly and uncontrollably leave the relative comfort of their...
View ArticlePuberty Suppression for Transgender Adolescents Works
A child assigned male at birth began confounding parents, family and neighbors at age 3 by repeatedly declaring and insisting, "I am a girl." After lengthy consultation with gender specialists, the...
View ArticleSickKids supports transgender teens with opening of new clinic (The Hospital...
(Source: The Hospital for Sick Children) October 22, 2013 SickKids supports transgender teens with opening of new clinic Beginning in October 2013, transgender teens in the Greater Toronto Area will...
View ArticleTransgender advocates push US psychiatric establishment to revise mental...
SAN FRANCISCO — Does a woman who strongly believes she was meant to be a man have a mental condition or a medical problem? Is a man who cross-dresses in need of psychological help? What about a boy who...
View Article'Fox And Friends,' Michelle Malkin, Angered By California Transgender Bill...
The hosts of "Fox and Friends" and conservative correspondent Michelle Malkin just "can't get their heads around" around a new bill in California that allows transgender children to use the bathroom in...
View Article'I am a girl': Transgender children � born, they say, with the wrong bodies...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — She is only 6 years old. Already the child who sits, legs tucked, on a canopied bed near a closet filled with princess dresses has lost her best friends. Kids who used to ask A.J. to...
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