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- The far-right law firm Alliance Defending Freedom offered a Florida anti-trans hate group $15,000 to “refute” the WPATH Standards of Care “for use in litigation”
- “Andre’s opinion”: Florida Medicaid agency paid thousands to a hate group leader to help ghostwrite their anti-trans policy; he copied nearly all of his sources from the hate group
- What we learned in April about the Florida AHCA’s Medicaid transition care exclusion Rule 59G-1.050(7) and subsequent litigation in Dekker v. Weida: Summary
- Round two: Gender Analysis calls on Florida Boards of Medicine to stop the trans youth care bans and investigate critical irregularities in the rulemaking process
- Florida’s newest Boards of Medicine appointees wrote an anti-trans letter calling for gender “exploratory” therapy, citing a report of a trans teenager being involuntarily hospitalized for nearly two years
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Monthly Archives: September 2019
Study: Spironolactone with medroxyprogesterone acetate suppresses testosterone in trans women more effectively than spironolactone alone
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional and this is not medical advice. While spironolactone is one of the most commonly used antiandrogens in feminizing hormone therapy, some trans women are still unable to achieve suppression of their testosterone levels … Continue reading
Case series of trans women suggests HIV drug efavirenz may make oral estradiol less effective
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional and this is not medical advice. Transgender women face a highly elevated prevalence of HIV infection, with Becasen et al. (2019) estimating that 14% of trans women in the United States are HIV-positive. … Continue reading
Posted in Endocrinology, HIV/AIDS, Transgender medicine
Tagged HRT, medicine, transition
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So they finally got their straight pride parade
By Heather McNamara Since the dawn of pride parades, homophobes have been demanding to know “why isn’t there a STRAIGHT pride parade, huh?” Many patient queers have articulated far better answers to that question than I ever could. Personally, I … Continue reading
Zinnia’s continued college adventures: summer 2019
A couple months back, I went into some depth about my personal history as a student, my struggles with high school in adolescence, and my decision this year to go to college for the first time at age 30. I … Continue reading
New study on trans women’s developmental milestones: Self-awareness precedes disclosure by several years
I’ve previously criticized Lisa Littman’s study of the alleged condition of “rapid onset gender dysphoria” – since corrected as “perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria” – on the grounds that its methodology, solely relying on … Continue reading
Posted in Trans youth, Transgender medicine, Transphobia and prejudice
Tagged transition, transphobia, youth
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