A young child holds a pair of trans pride flags at a noon gathering on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, as they protest House Bill 1125, which bans gender-affirming care for trans ...

A study of just over 10,000 US kids and teens aged 11-15 years found that 1.02% of adolescents identify as transgender; approximately 8.2% who were assigned female gender at birth and 1.3% assigned ...

The number of gender-affirming surgeries done in the United States nearly tripled between 2016 and 2019, a new study shows. The increase is probably due in part to changes in state and federal laws ...

Individuals are receiving diagnoses of gender dysphoria (GD) — also known as gender identity disorder — at younger ages, according to a new study published in General Psychiatry, an open access ...

The study acknowledges other factors may also play a part. Transgender adults who received gender-affirming hormone therapy had a significantly lower risk of moderate-to-severe depression over four ...

More people are seeking medical treatment for “gender-affirming care” — and they’re asking for it at a younger age, according to a new study that combed through the health records of 42 million people ...

Trump and Republican candidates made rolling back federal protections for transgender people a big issue, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on TV ads, much of it focused on gender-affirming ...

Mental health experts warned social factors could be contributing to the rise in gender dysphoria in children, after a new study found cases have skyrocketed over a ten-year period. Gender dysphoria ...

The use of gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is significantly related to lower rates of depression, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among transgender and nonbinary youth, according to a ...

Researchers from Princeton published a landmark study today examining the gender identity trajectories of transgender children who had socially transitioned (i.e., taken on pronouns that matched their ...