Medical professionals should look past the partisan framing and engage with the substance of this debate,” write the authors ...

The first known patient to take puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria sharply rebuked the modern youth gender identity movement as "insulting" in a podcast interview with the New York Times ...

Schuyler Bailar was assigned female at birth. But as a child, he couldn’t shake the sense that he wouldn’t grow up to be a woman. “One of my earliest gender memories was that I was going to grow up to ...

Gender dysphoria may be a lifelong condition, but people can find ways to change their feelings about their bodies. Gender dysphoria is a condition involving significant distress or discomfort due to ...

Editor's note: This article has been updated to provide clarification and further perspectives on the information presented. A series of reviews commissioned to inform the final Cass Review report ...

To feel at peace in your flesh vessel (a.k.a. your body) is a gift, and for a variety of reasons, it’s a beatific feeling that seems out of reach for many. Admittedly, having a body is weird in ...

Fads aren’t always harmful things. Hula hoops, goldfish swallowing, and flagpole sitting have come and gone and generally were not toxic. In the 1970s, various eating disorders were the rage. But they ...

Many transgender activists argue gender dysphoria is innate, even biological, as justification for the medical transition of children, but the sharp rise in adolescent girls identifying as transgender ...

Although various names have referred to it, the phenomenon of gender dysphoria has been well-studied for over a century. Gender dysphoria occurs when a person's biological sex doesn’t match their ...

Controversy is swirling around a paper on "rapid onset gender dysphoria" (ROGD) published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, with critics calling for removal of the journal's editor. Researchers and ...

Testosterone therapy significantly reduced gender dysphoria, depression, and suicidality among transgender and gender-diverse adults seeking masculinization compared with no treatment, a randomized ...