Researchers at the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism claim the following:
Watching transgender characters on fictional TV shows has the power to influence attitudes toward transgender people and policy issues.
Researchers in Minnesota have found that 2.7% of students in the state identify as transgender or gender-nonconforming. That is a surprisingly high percentage.
For years at 13.7, Barbara J. King has been writing about what she calls the spectrum of gender expression, and "the fact that gender identity isn't only — or even mostly — about biology and that it's most certainly not reducible to the sex one is assigned at birth." That's an especially important lesson in light of new research that identifies one of the sources of prejudice against transgender individuals: the (mostly mistaken) belief that men's and women's stereotypical characteristics do, in fact, come down to some immutable feature of one's biology.
Transgender people like myself have consistently tried to promote the idea that sex and gender are two distinct qualities that every human possesses. Meanwhile, our adversaries believe that sex (chromosomes or genital morphology at birth, or both) completely determine what our gender should be...and if we deny that, we are committing deception.
The results of a new study on transgender health have been reported in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
New research has been performed at the Boston Medical Center which reveals that most trans patients do not elect to undergo gender affirming surgeries.
The study followed 99 transgender patients who were undergoing hormone therapy at BMC, the majority of whom were transgender women.
Gender may be the earliest identity and social category to emerge in development, research suggests, and acquiring knowledge about one's gender is considered a critical part of early childhood development.
Brian Rood is an assistant professor of psychology at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
After I transitioned I applied for a job there in the Department of Mathematics, but they said they had no openings at the time.
The Journal of the American Medical Association published a new study on Monday: Psychiatric Diagnoses and Comorbidities in a Diverse, Multicity Cohort of Young Transgender Women
I. e.-- Are transgender women just inherently nuts or we get help to be that way?
Objective: To report the prevalence of mental health, substance dependence, and comorbid psychiatric disorders assessed via clinical diagnostic interview in a high-risk community-recruited sample of young transgender women.
Results: Of the 298 transgender women, 41.5% of participants had 1 or more mental health or substance dependence diagnoses; 1 in 5 (20.1%) had 2 or more comorbid psychiatric diagnoses. Prevalence of specific disorders was as follows: lifetime and current major depressive episode, 35.4% and 14.7%, respectively; suicidality, 20.2%; generalized anxiety disorder, 7.9%; posttraumatic stress disorder, 9.8%; alcohol dependence, 11.2%; and nonalcohol psychoactive substance use dependence, 15.2%.
They're bad for you. Seriously.
Back in the 90's I was working in medical research. Animal trials, to be exact. Primates to be specific. If I can ever stand to write about my time there more specifically, I might, but some of those little guys will haunt me to my grave.
A new study shows that trans Kids supported by their families are not destined to have mental health problems.
Studies of mental health among transgender people in the United States have been consistently grim, showing higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide.
But almost nothing is known about the mental health of a new and growing generation of transgender Americans — prepubescent children who are living openly as transgender with the support of their families. How do those children fare in an environment of openness and family support? When their gender identity is affirmed, are they happy?
