HEALTH & SCIENCE

This is a new page launched July 2023, intended for links to articles concerning what is referred to as “gender affirming care and the clinicians who provide it, as well as relevant science papers. It is currently far from comprehensive so older links – as well as the latest ones – will be added in the fullness of time. 

Testimony of Dr Stephen Levine to the Pennsylvania Health Committee, March 2020 

Puberty blockers for Scots children must be banned Dr Azeem Ibrahim in The Herald 23.08.23

Medicalising children is nothing to celebrate – spiked Jo Bartosch Spiked 23.07.23

STUDY ANALYSIS: Transgender Identity and Suicide Attempts and Mortality in Denmark  Reality’s Last Stand 20.07.23

Is There a Doctor in the House? Reality’s Last Stand 17.07.23

Youth Gender Transition Is Pushed Without Evidence WSJ Opinion 13.07.23

Gender surgeon promotes bizarre range of ‘nonbinary surgeries’ Eliza Mondegreen at UnHerd 11.07.23

If trans women can breastfeed their children, shouldn’t men do it, too? The Telegraph 08.07.23

Average age of gender dysphoria cases falls from 31 to 26 The Times 27.06.23

The Truth About ‘Puberty Blockers’ WSJ 07.06.23

A systematic review of hormone treatment for children with gender dysphoria and recommendations for research 17.04.23

Is Social Gender Transition Associated with Mental Health Status in Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria? Morandini et al 04.04.23

Acceptance, not surgery, solution to teen trans anxiety The Australian 10.02.23

On Scientific Transparency, Researcher Degrees Of Freedom, And That NEJM Study On Youth Gender Medicine Jesse Singal 31.01.23

When sterility is the risk, placebo is far from harmless Genspect 14.12.22

The surgeons exploiting trans misery Debbie Hayton 05.09.22

Doctors set out medical guidelines for “trans men” giving birth The Times 27.07.22

Is trans surgery just state-sanctioned mutilation? Brendan O’Neill 25.06.22

My puberty was chemically delayed. I was their guinea pig The Times 17.06.22

Teenage girls having their breasts cut off will not solve their emotional problems, says founder of Transgender Trend Mail 05.06.22

Sussex University Hospitals Trust breaks single-sex ward rule hundreds of times The Argus 03.06.22

Number of trans people receiving NHS treatment rises 75% in five years Mail 03.06.22

60p ‘sex change’ pills are being sold on eBay Mail 17.05.22

Little is known about the effects of puberty blockers The Economist 20.02.21

First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children Marcus and Susan Evans in Quillette 02.02.21

Puberty blockers ‘stunt bone growth of children’ The Times 03.02.21

Teenager, 18, told she can have gender-swap drugs after one hour-long Zoom meeting Mail 17.01.21

Autistic girls seeking answers ‘are seizing on sex change’ The Sunday Times 10.01.21

Evidence for puberty blockers use very low, says NICE BBC 01.04.21

Puberty blockers and parental consent Legal Feminist 27.12.20

‘Safety failure’ by chemist selling hormones for trans children The Times 29.10.20

Newly Discovered Letter Shows Endocrine Society Urged Experimenting On Trans Children Jane Robbins 21.10.20

Forget What Gender Activists Tell You. Here’s What Medical Transition Looks Like Scott Newgent 06.10.20

Trans adults more likely to be autistic, researchers find The Times 08.08.20

Transgender patients self-medicating over NHS waits BBC 18.02.20

Two Harley Street doctors are suspended after one removed a trans patient’s vagina instead of just her womb and the other changed a form to fake consent Mail 25.02.20

Transgender no longer recognised as ‘disorder’ by WHO BBC 29.05.19

Transgender man upset by blood agency’s screening policy which considers him female CBC 07.10.18

NHS sued over transgender fertility treatment Sky News 27.09.18

UK govt bodies clash over transgender fertility treatment BioEdge 06.10.18

Scientific American’s Transgenderism Issue Only Delegitimizes Science The Federalist 28.08.17