Today I'm proud to announce the publication of "Hormones 2016" (gold cover edition) containing 780 pages of goodies, with one new hormone 'Triptorelin', and a major chapter called "README FIRST", which summarises all the drugs and gives their common side-effects, and links to their main entries. There is also a …
more ...This Government is committed to making the UK a country that works for everyone. We want to strip away the barriers that hold people back so that everyone can go as far as their hard work and talent can take them.
The UK today is a diverse and …
more ...This government is committed to making the UK a country that works for everyone. We want to strip away the barriers that hold people back so that everyone can go as far as their hard work and talent can take them.
The UK today is a diverse and …
more ...On Tuesday 3 July, we published the LGBT Action Plan: Improving the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People.
Published 3 July 2018
From: Government Equalities Office and The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP
action plan responds to the largest national survey of LGBT people in the world
government …
Equal rights groups have warned that new rules that force voters to show photo IDs could prevent transgender and gender non-conforming people from voting.
The UK government is rolling out voter ID pilots across four local areas, Watford, Bromley, Gosport, and Woking, at the local government elections in May this …
more ...In recent years, US society has seen a sea change in the perception of transgender people, with celebrities such as Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox becoming the recognizable faces of a marginalized …
more ...Here is my latest book "Hair Loss, Hair Removal - Temporary and Permanent, Hair Retention 2017" comprising 252 pages with a table of contents, a glossary, a bibliography, and 3 indexes.
It has chapters on -
Breast implants make it trickier to run tests that can help spot a possible heart attack, a cardiologist has said.
Dr Sok-Sithikun Bun, from Monaco, did a small trial, with 48 women, and found electrocardiogram (ECG) tests, which measure the electrical activity of the heart, were often unreliable because the …
more ...British non-binary people may get legal recognition as the UK government reviews gender policies it admits are 'unfair'.
NHS England is seeking to improve the way trans and gender identity services are delivered. Trans people may see a set of more individually tiered services as part of the review.
A …
more ...To the UK trans and non-binary people who have been frustrated by NHS gender care for many years, a new set of service specifications may sound like a delicious and fulfilling box of your favourite chocolates. So magical, they don't even contain any calories.
Can something so enchanting exist?
Here …
more ...Shut windows and pull down the shades when it is hotter outside. You can open the windows for ventilation when it is cooler.
Stay out of the sun and don't go out between 11:00 and 15:00 (the hottest part of the day) if you're vulnerable to the effects …
Cast aside your pyjamas and sleep naked if possible. If you do tend to get very hot and sweaty, then drape a beach towel over the bed and pillows to protect the bedding.
Open the windows - preferably more than one, on different sides of the house - to allow more air …
By Ben Hunte, BBC News
Young people with gender identity issues are suffering "psychological torture" because of how long it is taking to receive specialist NHS help.
Teenage referrals to the Tavistock Centre in London have risen 42% in a year, with 2,016 referrals in 2016-17.
This follows a …
more ...From April 2017, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust will be the providers for the Charing Cross West London Gender Identity Clinic for one year on an interim basis. The service moves from West London Mental Health Trust which served notice on their contract for the services earlier this …
more ...Men who have sex change operations may be acting on a deep-seated urge "programmed" into the very fabric of the brain, according to a study of brain tissue from transsexuals who left their bodies to science. Dick Swaab and his colleagues at the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research in Amsterdam …
more ...Differences in the brain's white matter that clash with a person's genetic sex may hold the key to identifying transsexual people before puberty. Doctors could use this information to make a case for delaying puberty to improve the success of a sex change later.
Medics are keen to find concrete …
more ...You may have read that having a male brain will earn you more money. Or maybe that female brains are better at multitasking. But there is no such thing as a female or male brain, according to the first search for sex differences across the entire human brain. It reveals …
more ...A gene variant has been identified that appears to be associated with female-to-male transsexuality - the feeling some women have that they belong to the opposite sex.
While such complex behaviour is likely the result of multiple genes, environmental and cultural factors, the researchers say the discovery suggests that transsexuality does …
more ...Admitting you were uncomfortable with your gender or wanted to change it was virtually unheard of years ago.
But that didn't mean it didn't exist. Many people instead lived an oppressed existence rather than risk losing their family and friends, and being shunned by society.
Although attitudes are now changing …
more ...The Royal College of Nursing recognises that trans people frequently experience prejudice and discrimination. This resource is designed to help nurses respond to the needs of their patients and clients who identify as transgender. Initially created in response to an RCN Congress resolution, this guidance has been updated following further …
more ...West London Mental Health Trust (WLMHT) announced yesterday that it has served notice on the contract it has with NHS England to provide care to trans patients at the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic.
In the recent government …
more ...A huge rise in demand for services for trans people has seen the UK’s largest gender identity clinic move to a new provider for transition services.
The West London Mental Health Trust gave notice on their contract with NHS England today …
more ...The NHS Trust that housed the UK’s primary transgender healthcare clinic has served notice that it will end the service – in a bid to hand it off to another provider.
The Gender Identity Clinic at Charing Cross has been helping transgender people since 1966, and is governed by West …
more ...Today I'm releasing a major work, a four-part book called 'Aging and Trans'.
This has been worked on for many months, and I hope that people will find it useful. Its relevant for you if you're over 60, but also if you're younger and have aged parents.
A new package of work to ensure transgender people are given the support they need – including a review of the Gender Recognition Act – has been unveiled by Women and Equalities Minister, Nicky Morgan today.
We know that for some transgender people, the legal process to change their gender has proved …
more ...The two most popular injectables used to transition are disappearing from shelves as one awaits re-approval by the FDA, but other factors remain murky.
The voice on the other the end of the phone had an air of panic. It was one of Dr Carolyn Wolf-Gould’s trans patients, calling …
more ...When Jaimie Wilson first began transitioning from female to male, shopping for clothes was an uncomfortable experience.
"It was really intimidating for me to go shopping for clothes that I felt comfortable in," Wilson said. "Sometimes you go shopping in the men's or women's section, and if you don't look …
more ...The number of transphobic hate crimes reported to the police has nearly trebled in the past five years, according to figures obtained by The Independent – but low prosecution rates are causing a "lack of trust" in …
more ...The World Health Organization is moving toward declassifying transgender identity as a mental disorder in its global list of medical conditions, with a new study lending additional support to a proposal that would delete the decades-old designation.
The change, which has so far been approved by each committee that has …
more ...Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee, chaired by Conservative MP Maria Miller, released a landmark report on trans issues in January.
The committee recommended 35 separate reforms related …
more ...A trans woman says she feared walking down the street after being repeatedly abused in one of Britain’s most LGBTI-friendly cities, Brighton.
But now she has seen the man responsible …
more ...The New England Journal of Medicine
Mark A. Schuster, M.D., Ph.D., Sari L. Reisner, Sc.D., and Sarah E. Onorato, B.A.
From the Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital (M.A.S., S.L.R., S.E.O.), the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School …
more ...Children as young as 9 months-old prefer to play with toys specific to their own gender, according to a new study from academics at City University London and UCL.
The paper, which is published in the journal of Infant and Child Development, shows that in a familiar nursery environment significant …
more ...Most people look forward to their retirement, but researchers say that transgender people are especially vulnerable to abuse in care homes.
Retirement can often be a source of great apprehension, discomfort, and - in some cases - torment for older trans people. From care homes and carers, to mental health wards and …
more ...The number of Britons taking steps to change their gender has shot up dramatically in recent years, leaving vulnerable people waiting years for treatment.
Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information …
more ...The problem, according to Phil Thomas, is this: there are simply not enough people in Britain who know how to make a vagina.
“We need more surgeons,” the urologist said …
more ...A doctor in Wales is prescribing cross-sex hormones to children as young as 12 who say they want to change sex, arguing that if they are confident …
more ...Few questions in science are as fraught as those around gender. At worst, the politics deters researchers and funders, and leaves people needed to take part in studies …
more ...There have been repeated warnings in the past few years that NHS gender identity services are struggling to keep up with a surge in demand across a range of services.
Parliament’s Women and Equalities Select Committee …
more ...Legal processes for registering a change of gender are to be overhauled to make them less distressing for transgender people.
The move is part of a package of reforms unveiled by the equalities minister, Nicky …
more ...Many trans people have reacted in anger to the UK government’s trans equality report released today (7 July).
The new package, which includes a review of the Gender Recognition Act, says very little of note.
Nicky Morgan, the Women and Equalities Minister …
more ...Cassie Wilson can pinpoint the moment her daughter Melanie became her son, Tom. They were in the supermarket and Melanie, then two and a half, said: "I don't want to be a girl any more - I'm going to be a boy, and I'm going to be called Tom."
"That was …
more ...The letter you always wanted to write
Saturday 12 April 2014 07.01 BST Last modified on Tuesday 12 January 2016 10.39 GMT
Dear First-Born Child, I can't describe how thrilled I was when you were born. I'd had no wish for anything other than a healthy baby but …
more ...Daily Mirror, UK
The inmate suffered 'huge' blood loss following the incident at HMP Littlehey, Cambs, amid claims she had been refused a transfer to a women's jail
A transgender inmate living as a woman at a men's prison nearly died after slashing herself with a razor.
Staff spotted her …
more ...Gay Star News, UK
Nepal and the UK have been reprimanded by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child for intersex genital mutilation
The UK still has doctors doing unnecessary and dangerous genital surgery on intersex children and now the UN has stepped in.
Activists say the …
more ...Britain is still locking up trans women in men's prisons despite saying they'll stop.
And a long-awaited review of how trans prisoners has been finished but publication is being deliberately delayed until after the EU Referendum, Gay Star News has learned.
While the review has not been released yet, it …
more ...Transgender individuals experience discrimination in all domains of their personal and social life. Discrimination is believed to be associated with worse quality of life (QoL).
To investigate the relation between QoL and perceived levels of discrimination and social support in individuals with gender dysphoria (GD).
Individuals with …
more ...This is the report of the Care Quality Commission into the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic and their inspection took place on 19th and 20th January 2016.
They seem to have dug quite deeply into the workings of the clinic and have found areas where the clinic is not meeting …
more ...And I also found this file which is quite interesting. They say in their conclusion -
"estrogens plus antiandrogens in biological males block circulating androgens and sebum production almost completely, but inhibit hair growth only slowly. A strong reduction in hair-shaft diameter was the first sign of androgen deprivation, reaching its …
more ...Looking through the logs I found that several people were looking for "phenomenon" and not finding it. I knew what the true title of the article was "The transsexual phenomenon" by Harry Benjamin published in 1966.
I knew that it used to be here, back when I had a wordpress …
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