Forced outing laws, trans registries, and the slow work of staying upright while documenting a genocide. Plus fertility preservation research and Hiira wellbeing!
The Supreme Court greenlights conversion therapy, a Finnish disinformation study makes the rounds, Idaho builds a surveillance state for trans kids, and the NHS locks out under-18s.
Transgender Day of Visibility, dark money and manufactured research, life in prison for using a bathroom, and medical experimentation in federal prisons.
Two federal court wins, Dr. Oz caught pressuring doctors, Idaho's five-year prison sentence for using the bathroom, and the Lemkin Institute's third genocide warning.
On the words transgender and transsexual, the legacy of transmedicalism in queer discourse, and how the hottest trans in-fight has more than two sides.
A third genocide alert is released. The first adult trans care ban is court approved. The FDA wants to make a list of trans women. Welcome back to the roundup.
SCOTUS hands down its fifth anti-trans ruling, the NHS bans hormones for under-18s, and providers are running out of time to learn how the information war works.
What providers actually need to close the gap between inclusion statements, affirming care, and the advocacy of an accomplice — and a new column built to help
The Stronger Sex: Proof, Politics, and the Possibility of Mixed‐Gender Sports
A critical look at Starre Vartan’s book The Stronger Sex, the cultural choke points that keep women "weaker" and a roadmap for truly inclusive athletics.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, in collusion with RFK's department of Health and Human Services, have issued a non-binding, non-clinical statement discouraging gender-affirming care for minors.
What are you doing to take care of yourself? When you are well-resourced, what inspiration can you take from other movement leaders, and what will you do with it?
Dr. Harry Barbee on the Moral Panic Targeting Trans Youth
The co-author of an American Sociological Association report discusses the disconnect between research and restrictive policies, and the historical patterns that help explain this moment.
The Democrats fight for trans people and win. The DOJ licks its wounds. Florida ramps up their attempts to criminalize all gender affirmation. The US threatens to withdraw international aid from anyone who acknowledges that trans people exist. And more in the fight for our humanity.
Negligent by Design: anti-Blackness in American medicine and how to address it
Dr. Vanessa Grubbs exposes how anti-Blackness isn't a bug in American healthcare—it's the design. Essential reading for providers working across marginalized communities.
From surgical travel risks to Medicaid restrictions and Supreme Court cases, this issue tracks how policy and distance are reshaping access to trans health care.
