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A new landmark study has found that access to gender-affirming healthcare significantly reduces rates of depression, gender dysphoria, and suicidality among transgender people.
While it’s no secret that providing gender-affirming care to transgender individuals who ask for it can greatly benefit their well-being, an increase in transphobic rhetoric and bans on gender-affirming healthcare has prompted thorough medical studies into the impact of such care.
Now, brand new research conducted in Melbourne, Australia, has found that allowing transgender people to access the care they’re after can reduce suicidality by a stunning 55%.
As part of the first-ever randomized controlled trial (RCT) on gender-affirming care, researchers took 64 transgender and gender-diverse adults who had been looking to start testosterone therapy and randomly split them into a treatment group and a control group.
While the treatment group was allowed to begin hormone therapy that week, the control group waited three months for their treatment to begin.
Before the study began, both groups were evaluated on depression, gender dysphoria, and suicidality. Three months later, the two groups were evaluated again.
RCTs for medical care can often be hard to conduct due to practical and ethical concerns. However, researchers of this study found a way to hold an RCT for this study by incorporating a shorter follow-up period. Rather than giving the control group a placebo drug, or no treatment at all, they were simply given a longer wait time.
The results showed a notable decrease in gender dysphoria, depression, and – most significantly – suicidality.
The group that received gender-affirming care right away saw a 55% reduction in suicidality compared to a 5% drop within the control group.
Depression scores in the treatment group decreased by half, while gender dysphoria rates also significantly decreased.
Breaking down their findings, researchers Brendan J. Nolan MBBS, Sav Zwickl, PhD, and Peter Locke wrote: “There was a statistically significant decrease in gender dysphoria in individuals with immediate [access to gender-affirming care] compared with delayed initiation of testosterone therapy.”
“A clinically significant decrease in depression and a decrease in suicidality also occurred with immediate testosterone therapy.”
“The findings of this trial suggest that testosterone therapy significantly decreases gender dysphoria, depression, and suicidality in transgender and gender-diverse individuals desiring testosterone therapy.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time that research has shown significant drops in depression and suicide rates among transgender individuals who receive gender-affirming care.
A 2022 medical study showed that young transgender people who have access to puberty blockers are 73% less at risk of suicide and report improved well-being.
But, as anti-trans activists advocate for further bans on gender-affirming care, one of the key arguments is that the evidence in support of the care isn’t up to scratch with GRADE (Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) standards.
So research like this landmark RCT is so significant to the transgender community and its allies as the fight for their healthcare rights rumbles on.
#us politics#news#pinknews#2023#gender affirming care#gender affirming healthcare#transgender healthcare#transgender#trans rights#trans healthcare#suicidality#depression#gender dysphoria#Australia#randomized controlled trial#trust the science#Brendan J. Nolan#Sav Zwickl#Peter Locke#testosterone therapy#Grades of Recommendation Assessment Development and Evaluation#lgbtqia+#lgbtqia+ rights
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Maria Morava (March 31, 2023). "Most anti-trans adults don’t actually know a trans person in real life, new study reveals." PinkNews. https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/trans-day-visibility-report-just-like-us/
tl;dr: Some of the things that a large study by the UK charity Just Like Us found: most adults who don't support transgender people don't know any. Meanwhile, "personally knowing a trans person doubles the likelihood of trans allyship." Lesbians have the greatest tendency to do so of all LGBTQ people. Nearly all lesbians know and are supportive of transgender people.
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“This year has seen countless attempted book bans across the US, and many banned titles come from authors dealing with LGBTQ+ themes, with activists explaining that pushes to ban books is “harmful to students from historically marginalised backgrounds”.
One project, the Queer Liberation Library (QLL), is now aiming to combat this, launching in October with an entirely online catalogue that can be accessed anywhere in the country – even in states enacting bans on certain titles."
-How this online library is fighting back against US book bans, by Emily Chudy, PinkNews
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Dudee PinkNews posted your pronouns in lyrics post on their instagram, go claim your royalties 💲💲
LOL “FunnyTweets” how dare you. I love that tumblr tried to add an adult label to the post for talking about cocaine but they gotta censor “slut” on instagram.
Tumblr user [REDACTED]-holliday is not feeling very visible this bi visibility month :/
#ask#anon ask#pinknews#if it still has the mulder pfp then maybe they stole it from twitter who stole it#or from twitter who took it from reddit who stole it#either way it’s an old screenshot#I’m just still so hashtagFunney
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Two men who had a baby through exploiting a woman want to talk about equality in parenting.
When Paul Morgan-Bentley and his husband welcomed their son, Solly, they were struck by how little is expected of men when it comes to raising kids.
Solly was born in 2020, just as lockdown began, via a surrogate. So far, Paul and Robin’s parenting journey has been beautiful and life-affirming, without any of the homophobia they feared they might encounter.
But it’s also been an incredible lesson on how gendered society remains.
“Lots of people were lovely or didn’t bat an eyelid which was lovely, but what we did find repeatedly just how little was expected of men at all when it comes to being a parent – being a fully engaged parent with primary responsibility,” Paul tells PinkNews.
Paul, who is head of investigations at The Times, wants parenthood to be equalised, and believes that can only be achieved by doing away with gender norms and encouraging all parents to pull their weight equally.
“In a non-traditional family, you just get the job done and you can feel really liberated from expectations,” he says.
“Lots of women face years and years of cultural expectation about what it means to be a woman and how that means you should be caring.
“We write it on the slogans of young girls’ t-shirts that are sold in supermarkets – it’s all about caring and nurturing and boys are ‘cheeky little monkeys’ and are not expected to be nurturing. It’s nonsense.”
Before and since becoming fathers, Paul and his husband were surprised by just how gendered things still are.
“To our faces we haven’t faced much direct hostility – often it’s embarrassment,” he continues.
“In the IVF clinic, even going through that process, all the paperwork is mum and dad – we had to cross off mum all the time.
“We’re not massively sensitive about it but society has changed in lots of ways and actually what we found is that often the institutions haven’t kept up.
“Often with hospital births, most hospitals in the UK kick dads out – or any partner out – and you can only come back in visiting hours. What message does that send to the mother?
“It’s all geared towards a heterosexual couple and there’s this idea that there is a mother who will be looking after the baby.”
Those attitudes also extend into the way parental leave and childcare work.
“If you look at how childcare is organised in the UK, you have some help – very little help, actually – financially from the state during that first year of parental leave, and then nothing for most families until your child is three.
“Either the government doesn’t believe one or two year olds exist, or there is still fundamentally this subconscious belief that a wife is at home looking after the baby.”
These realisations inspired Paul to write The Equal Parent. Released in March, the book interrogates societal attitudes towards parenting and looks in-depth at the mistakes we’re making when it comes to raising children.
Paul believes it’s time society moved into the 21st century and accepted that parenthood doesn’t look the same as it did in the 1960s.
“We should be playing to our strengths and communicating as parents and couples in relationships and working out what’s best for everyone – not just doing things because it feels like the normal thing to do because of our gender,” he adds.
#Pinknews#anti surrogacy#Babies are not commodities#No one is entitled to bio offspring#Did they try adoption first?#They crossed out mother on the birth certificate#The surrogate is the mother#Hospitals can kick out the father or anyone else the woman who is giving birth doesn’t want there for any reason#Birth isn’t just about the baby it’s also about the mother going through a medical experience#The Equal Parent#The mother needs time to rest and heal in peace#If men want to be equal parents to could take that time after visiting hours to make sure everything is in order at home
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Fascists wanting to "protect families" by stabbing families in the back
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Gaines is creating a big stink about this article, too. So you definitely shouldn't read it.
#libraries#public libraries#California libraries#Mary L. Stephens Library#Davis California#Riley Gaines#TERFs#FARTs#other transphobic liars#library bomb threats#stochastic terrorism#LGBTQIA+#queer#PinkNews#censorship
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The UK's healthcare board NHS is under fire for claiming without any backing that trans youths are going through a phase. This is such a reckless statement by such a prominent statement from a healthcare organisation. It promotes transphobia, dehumanises trans youth and implies that transgender is not something that really exists. It certainly exists and spreading such information not only deluded the public. But it also adds to the amount of anxiety that so many trans youths have to deal with already due to how marginalised and discriminated the trans community is already.
NHS do better, this is not a factual statement from you. Trans youth's experiences are valid and need to be treated as such.
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https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/12/eddie-izzard-unplanned-pronoun-change/
In the past few days, there have been a few articles about Eddie Izzard, covering topics discussed in the Clive Anderson podcast released earlier this week. (My Seven Wonders, episode 35)
The amount of coverage and backlash surprised me, as the podcast interview seemed very tame and without any revelations… although we did learn that Eddie likes roundabouts, a hot take which The Daily Mail has been suspiciously silent on.
Most of these articles have willfully missed or distorted whatever points Eddie made in the interview.
The PinkNews article linked above is the exception. Nothing is sensationalized and the headline isn’t an utter fabrication.
“But I prefer she/her, don’t mind he/him, and I’m going to be relaxed about it. It’s not the time for fighting each other on this.”
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Eddie Izzard also spoke about her continued ambitions to run as a Labour MP, something she has been vocal about since 2010, and how ex-comedian and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has inspired her.
“He’s been very strong. Very consistent,” she said of his leadership.
As good as this article is compared to the competition, I’d argue that writing “Zelensky has inspired her” is a wee bit of a misrepresentation.
Here’s my transcription of the applicable part of the podcast, about 5:30 before the end:
Clive Anderson: Well I suppose you might trip up on the basis that Boris Johnson was essentially a comedian. He likes gags, he likes to take jokes, he appeared on the television, and “oh that’ll be nice let’s have a comedian as prime minister!” It crashed and burned for all sorts of reasons. The voters may think, “oooh, do we want a comedian to be our member of parliament or prime minister?” I’m just suggesting that as a possible harm that might have been done to you by Boris Johnson.
Eddie Izzard: Volodymyr Zelensky.
Clive: Yes. Okay.
Eddie: So, there you go.
Clive: You’ve dealt with this.
Eddie: Have I answered?
Clive: Whoa, elect him!
Eddie: Yeah, no. He’s been very strong, very consistent. And it’s not the jokes, in the end that the Tory party itself took out Boris Johnson. The Tory party said, “Look, we will not allow a person running our party and our country to lie more than 5,721 times.” They said, “That’s the line. It’s a red flag. And you’ve crossed the 5,721 and that’s it and you’re out.”
Of course there’s nothing wrong about being inspired by Zelensky, and perhaps Eddie Izzard would call him an inspiration, but that isn’t what she said in this interview.
I suppose “Eddie Izzard mentions Zelensky as an example of a comedian who turned into a capable politician” doesn’t sell ad views.
#eddie izzard#I HAVE OPINIONS#pinknews#link#my seven wonders#clive anderson#article#interview#politics
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Sounds about like Chaiya Raichik
Moms for Liberty organiser exposed as convicted sex offender
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As a trans person, I actually don't feel like the way that Rufus Wainright framed his support in this interview was helpful or supportive.
#transgender#allyship#anti-trans actions#trans#rufus wainwright#pinknews#interviews#backhanded support
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A federal court judge has ruled that parents in Ohio don’t have the right to challenge a trans-inclusive school bathroom policy.
A case brought by parents and students in the Bethel Local School District (BLSD) in November sought to prohibit trans and non-binary students in the region from using toilets and other facilities consistent with their gender identity.
But, in a ruling issued on Monday (7 August), Judge Michael Newman decreed that the accusations brought by the group did not “pass legal muster” to warrant further consideration.
“Not every contentious debate concerning matters of public importance presents a cognisable federal lawsuit,” Newman wrote in his ruling opinion.
During a school board meeting in January 2022, BLSD announced it had implemented policies allowing transgender students to use communal toilets consistent with their gender identity.
Several months later, a group of parents filed a legal challenge, arguing that their parental rights were being infringed upon by not having a public meeting to discuss the matter.
They further argued that a previous policy, which had no protections for trans students, did not violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which states that no person in the US shall exclude or discriminate against students on the basis of sex.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio argued that the plaintiffs lacked standing for the Title IX claim and that citing parental rights did not immediately require the school to adhere to the group’s demands.
Dismissing the case, Newman wrote that parents do not have a “constitutional right” to revoke school policies on toilet usage.
ACLU Ohio deputy legal director, David Carey, said the ruling reaffirmed that the Constitution is not a vehicle to “compel discrimination.”
He explained: “Nothing in the constitutional guarantees of parenting rights, equal protection or free exercise of religion, mandates that transgender students be excluded from gender-appropriate communal restrooms on the basis of their classmates’ beliefs and values.”
“For public schools to function, one student’s or family’s religious beliefs cannot provide a basis to exclude another student from full participation in the school environment.”
In its legal intervention arguments, the ACLU wrote that it believed the public has a “strong interest” in advancing policies that affirmatively protect transgender students and create inclusive school environments.
The LGBTQ & HIV Project staff attorney at the ACLU, Malita Picasso, said the court’s decision made it “resoundingly clear” that the rights of trans students are “not in conflict” with the rights of their peers.
“No student should have to fear discriminatory treatment every morning they walk into school, and this ruling brings us closer to the day no transgender student has to,” she added.
#us politics#news#pinknews#parental rights#ohio#trans bathroom bills#bathroom bills#transphobia#fuck transphobes#republican homophobia#Bethel Local School District#Judge Michael Newman#title ix#Education Amendments of 1972#American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio#American Civil Liberties Union#David Carey#us constitution#Malita Picasso#2023
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Gabriella Ferlita (February 23, 2024). "A third of trans men can ovulate after undergoing gender-affirming treatment, study finds." PinkNews. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/23/do-trans-men-on-testosterone-ovulate/
tl;dr: This is about transgender men and other transmasculine people who had been on T for at least a year, and had stopped having a period. A third of these people continue to ovulate while they are on T, even though they don't have a period. The type or amount of T doesn't matter, so we don't know why this happens for some people and not others. It's more proof that being on T doesn't protect someone from getting pregnant. People who don't want to get pregnant need to use actual birth control or other methods of contraception.
Here's the full text of the study that the news article is about:
Joyce D. Asseler, Julieta S. del Valle, Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes, Marieke O. Verhoeven, Mariette Goddijn, Judith A.F. Huirne, Norah M. van Mello (February 22, 2024). "One-third of amenorrheic transmasculine people on testosterone ovulate." Cell Reports Medicine 5, 101440. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2024.101440 https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(24)00063-6
#transgender#testosterone#hormones#contraception#birth control#pregnancy#ovulation#sex education#rated PG-13#PinkNews#relevant for transgender men and trans masculine nonbinary people and others on the female to male spectrum#relevant for people who can get pregnant#relevant for people who no longer menstruate#relevant for people in relationships where someone could get pregnant
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“We think there will be some threats in that way, but we are working with the police… we’ll have dozens of people there to keep it a safe situation, we’ll have first aid and field support to offer any kind of support.“ Yes that’s something truly oppressed people say. 🙄
Students at Oxford university will stage a protest on the same day as “gender-critical” Kathleen Stock’s address to the Oxford Union this month.
Various student groups announced the Oxford Trans+ Pride event on Sunday (7 May) in an effort to counteract the contentious pundit’s planned speech on 30 May.
Controversy arose last month after the union announced that former University of Sussex philosophy lecturer Stock, who has argued that self-ID “threatens a secure understanding of the concept ‘lesbian’,” had agreed to speak.
The Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society condemned the union’s decision to give Stock a platform in April, saying that she “has been campaigning against trans rights, labelling them as dangerous to women”.
The society’s president, Amiad Haran Diman, told PinkNews that the collective effort by society organisers is not just about protesting against Stock’s views, but also about celebrating the trans people of Oxford.
“Our motivation is not to attack the union or attack Kathleen Stock, because we think they love the attention. The reason we are doing this is for the trans community of Oxford – it’s for our trans siblings so that they know someone is standing up for them.”
The event is set to begin at 2pm in the Lincoln College building, with panels of trans, non-binary, gender-nonconforming and intersex speakers.
It will then move to Bonn Square, where protestors will hold a rally promoting transgender rights.
“The previous protest for queer rights in Oxford got around 200 attendees, we’re hoping to get double or triple that,” Diman said. “We need that because there will be counter-protestors and hateful transphobes. To counteract that, we need a loud voice.”
He added that the society received a wave of abuse following its April statement calling on the union to “rescind its misguided invite” and that the decision to hold a Pride protest was an effort to prove that trans joy triumphs over adversity.
“A huge pile-on started”, said Diman. “We received thousands of very hateful, abusive and frightening comments. That was something we weren’t prepared for as a small society.
“The thing I noticed was what annoyed the TERFs the most was trans joy. They were really baffled and threatened by trans joy, so I thought that emphasising trans joy is the best way to counter that.”
Pride is still a protest, Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society president says
Diman continued: “We know that there are some very hateful groups like Students Against Tyranny that are planning to arrive, and this is something that has happened in Oxford before.”
“We think there will be some threats in that way, but we are working with the police… we’ll have dozens of people there to keep it a safe situation, we’ll have first aid and field support to offer any kind of support.
“It will be a celebration, but also come prepared – if you’re worried about being outed, you should probably cover your face, and if you’re worried about heated interactions, you should probably stay away from the edges of the protest.”
With several pro-LGBTQ+ community organisations already supporting the Oxford Trans+ Pride protest, the goal for organisers is to turn it into an annual event.
“We are in coordination with some very large queer organisations here,” Diman said. “This is something that couldn’t really have happened otherwise because the trans community here is not that large, but it is very active.
“I believe it can become an annual event, but currently we are just trying to get this first event underway and assess the success afterwards.”
Stock responded to the announcement of Oxford Trans+ Pride in a tweet on Sunday (7 May), branding the protestors “absolute babies“.
Stock has previously equated trans people with those who claim to be “trans-racial” or think of themselves as another race.
She has made headlines in recent months, both for her co-founding of The Lesbian Project, a group created exclusively for cisgender lesbians, and for her involvement in upcoming Channel 4 documentary Gender Wars.
#Oxford University#Kathleen Stock#Oxford Union#Getting police involved because a woman is gender critical#PinkNews#Hating peoples for knowing what same sex attraction means
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Stay strong and bring it through parliament, despite the backlash!
#so so so glad to learn of the progress well done#the backlash is so painful and idiotic just keep going#but what about the parental recognition for both sapphic mothers from birth??#haven't heard about it for months#lgbt+#politics#german#germany#pink news#pinknews#link#transgender#the article doesn't mention it but the law is for intersex people too
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