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- The Dangers of Detrans TERF Entryism: Lessons for Organizers from OH HB 68
- “Still dreaming of running over the trans activists”: Sharon Beck, leader of anti-trans parent group Cardinal Support Network and wife of SEGM’s cofounder, “guided” Ohio Rep. Gary Click on his trans care ban
- Counterpoint: Ohio trans youth care ban veto was a victory for a gatekeeping surveillance state targeting trans adults
- New trial exhibits in Doe v. Ladapo: DOH worked with Genspect leaders Stella O’Malley and Joe Burgo in July 2022; Hilary Cass met SEGM’s Patrick Hunter to discuss Florida’s anti-trans report; Jamie Reed’s attorney Vernadette Broyles chose the lineup of detransitioners speaking at the Board of Medicine
- The Observer gets it wrong: Anti-gay and anti-trans conversion practices have always appealed to “fluidity” of both sexual orientation and gender identity
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Category Archives: Transgender medicine
3 years of HRT, and 8 things I’ve learned (Gender Analysis 11)
(Support Gender Analysis on Patreon!) Hi, welcome to Gender Analysis. For the past three years, I’ve been on hormone replacement therapy as a part of transitioning. Hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, is usually comprised of testosterone blockers and estrogen for … Continue reading
Paul McHugh is wrong: transitioning is effective (Gender Analysis 10)
(Support Gender Analysis on Patreon!) Hi, welcome to Gender Analysis. Every so often, a particular bit of folklore pops up in the media: the claim that transitioning doesn’t actually help to improve transgender people’s health and well-being. News outlets like … Continue reading
Walt Heyer and “sex change regret” (Gender Analysis 09)
(Support Gender Analysis on Patreon!) Hi, welcome to Gender Analysis. In the popular imagination, there are few subjects as fascinating as transitioning. It’s an intensely personal decision to do something most people never even contemplate, undergoing such a seemingly radical … Continue reading
Some Advice on “Passing” (Gender Analysis 04)
(Support Gender Analysis on Patreon!) Hi, welcome to Gender Analysis. The term “passing” is typically used to describe whether or not a trans person is perceived as noticeably trans. For a trans woman, to “pass” is to be seen as … Continue reading
Posted in Biology of transition, Health care, History, Media, Trans youth, Transgender medicine, Transphobia and prejudice
Tagged cissexism, history, medicine, passing, transphobia
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Transition as Gender Freedom (Gender Analysis 03)
Suppose I were to show you some pictures from when I transitioned, and asked you to arrange them from start to finish, in the order you think they were taken in. But that would be a trick question – … Continue reading
