Trans youth
“Everyone feels that way”: Are gender dysphoric symptoms a near-universal experience in cisgender adolescents?
Previously: “Rapid onset gender dysphoria” study: An impossibly wide net of alternative etiologies "Everyone wonders about being the other gender."…
What the “rapid onset gender dysphoria” study missed: Timing of identity development and disclosure in LGBT youth
Previously: Meet the unbiased, reliable, not-at-all-transphobic parents from the “rapid onset gender dysphoria” study Since the publication of Lisa Littman’s…
How the WSJ handles the inconvenient facts of “rapid onset gender dysphoria”
Previously: Rapid onset gender dysphoria study misunderstands trans depersonalization Meet the unbiased parents behind the rapid onset gender dysphoria study…
My letter to the Brown Daily Herald on “rapid onset gender dysphoria”, and Lisa Littman’s response
Previously: “Rapid onset gender dysphoria” study misunderstands trans depersonalization This weekend, I wrote in to the Brown Daily Herald on…
“Rapid onset gender dysphoria” study: An impossibly wide net of alternative etiologies
Previously: “Rapid onset gender dysphoria” study misunderstands trans depersonalization, ends up blaming Zinnia Jones Meet the unbiased, reliable, not-at-all-transphobic parents…
“Rapid onset gender dysphoria” study misunderstands trans depersonalization, ends up blaming Zinnia Jones
Previously: Fresh trans myths of 2017: “rapid onset gender dysphoria” “Rapid onset gender dysphoria”: What a hoax diagnosis looks like…
Is the “rapid onset gender dysphoria” hoax designed to misdiagnose trans kids?
One of the biggest pitfalls in the research on persistence and desistence of gender dysphoria in youth has been the…
Trans women with BRCA mutations: options for hormone therapy
The risk of breast cancer is a concern for trans women transitioning using estrogen and anti-androgens: they experience the growth…
A new critical analysis of desistance research
Newhook et al. (2018) have recently published a review in the International Journal of Transgenderism of the state of the…
What Michael Laidlaw gets wrong about transgender youth
This month, endocrinologist Michael Laidlaw posted a lengthy review of the book I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and trans…