Transgender adults seeking testosterone therapy have better mental health outcomes with early treatment, trial shows Transgender adults who have access to timely gender-affirming testosterone therapy had a significantly reduced risk of gender dysphoria, depression and suicidality, a University of Melbourne-led clinical trial has found. The randomised, open-label clinical trial was led by researchers from the […]
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Dementia risk differs between sex and gender identity, study suggests: Transgender and non-binary adults may be at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease – the most common form of dementia – in later life, due to key risk factors being more prevalent in this population writes Ben Knight of UNSW. Research recently published in Alzheimer’s […]
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Autism diagnosis impacted by different gender emotional needs: A new study suggests that autism diagnosis could be improved with a greater focus on the differences in emotional needs between women and men. A new study published by a team of psychologists suggests that the diagnosis of autism could be improved by considering the differences between […]
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Gender-affirming hormone therapy could influence the way a person’s genes are turned on or off, according to a new study: The research, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in Clinical Epigenetics, found the hormone therapy could affect certain regions of DNA, the first step in understanding how this therapy may impact the immune […]
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When it comes to gender reconstructive surgery, if you could sum-up the patient experience in one word, chances are you’d use ‘waiting’. The patient may have known from their early teens they weren’t comfortable in their own skin, yet they were forced to wait until they could do anything about it. If they initially sought help […]
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Viral infections are not gender neutral and affect men and women differently, according to new research from published this week in Nature Communications. Viruses may actually have evolved to protect women who usefully transmit their genetic material onto unborn children or children who are breastfed, according to the study. Researchers at the School of Biological […]
It’s a common phenomenon; a man complains he’s feeling too hot and throws off the duvet while his female partner burrows under it and wishes she had some woolly socks. The difference between male and female temperature control is not simply hearsay. There are proven differences between men and women when it comes to the way their circulatory system […]
Handing (Back) Over the Pen: Afghan Women’s Experiences of Gender Based Violence (GBV) Violence and trauma refer to experiences, rather than inherent pathological processes, which can cause significant physical and mental health consequences and present ethical challenges for health care professionals and humanitarian actors. Violence against women, or gender based violence, are collective violent acts […]
In the 1940s, Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger separately identified a set of unusual behaviours in certain children, including strange and focussed obsessions and repetitive movements, but mainly characterised by a lack of social interaction or ‘aloofness’. The term ‘autism’ was coined to capture this aspect. Today, the ‘diagnostic’ term Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) covers […]
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