Information pertaining to transgender, gender, & intersex research, healthcare, law, myths, and related topics:
Information pertaining to transgender, gender, & intersex research, healthcare, law, myths, and related topics:
Trans Biology:
Live births from trans women: UTx 2018
Trans Cerebral Activation: 2009 Feb
A Discussion on "Biological Sex": Novella 2024
Trans Sex Indicator in Neurobiology: Nature
Brain sex in trans women: PubMed
Brain sex in trans women 2: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35329908/
Trans Neuroanatomy: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34030966/
"Sex & Sensibility" primer video: Forrest Valkai, biologist.
Hypothesis: Trans IS Intersex
Trans Data:
Utah review demonstrates net positive of gender care for youth: Report
Less than 1 in 1000 trans kids access HRT or puberty blockers: JAMA
Puberty blockers prevent mental health deterioration: Kennedy 2025
Cis Boys Get Gender-Affirming Care FAR MORE Than Trans Minors: JAMA
"Chemical Castration" is temporary: Cleveland Clinic
CDC Trans Teen Survey: Report
Trans Youth Healthcare Bans CAUSE self-harm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5.epdf
40 Year Post-GRS Satisfaction: PubMed 2022
Prohibiting Youth GAC is Governmental Child Abuse: AAP
<0.4% Adult Desistence (and more): US Trans Survey
0.3% Regret Rate: 2023 Jul
<1% Regret Rate: JAMA
GAC Reduces Self Harm Metastudy
Youth Persistence Rate at 5 years: 97.5%: AMA
98% of youth on blockers continue HRT: Lancet 2022
GAC reduces suicidality by >62%: PMC
Amsterdam Cohort Paper: NIH
Puberty blocker safety: https://www.healthline.com/health/are-puberty-blockers-reversible#safety
Cleveland Clinic GAC: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/procedures/gender-affirmation-surgery
The Trevor Project 2023 data: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2023/
"Sweden Study" (Suicide rates vs cis) [NOT pre-GAC vs post]: PubMed
Desistence Perth Cohort Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2815512?fbclid=IwAR2s5nYu1NwElCD8PYi-3OfGzkJXlvk_ggqaGSV1MzQWiGc4aqykgIORGF0
Historical Trans Archive: DTA
Bathroom data: Julia Serano
Law:
Trans US Case Laws: Article
Arkansas Trans Healthcare Ban Ruling: https://wp.api.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/win-in-arkansas.pdf
Countering Pseudoscience & Conspiracy Theories:
Gender Critical Conspiracy Theory Debunked: Video presentation
Anti-trans Pseudoscience Network: SPLC
ROGD Debunked: Article
Cass Review Refuted: Yale
Cass/NHS cover up deaths: Report
"Bathroom Predator" Myth: Admission it was made up
Doctors For Political Hire To Attack Healthcare: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/09/doctor-republican-trans-gender-affirming-minor-healthcare-lgbtq-rights
GLOBAL Gender Surgery Market Value (2022): https://www.acumenresearchandconsulting.com/sex-reassignment-surgery-market
ROGD is bunk: https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)01085-4/fulltext
Debunking Transphobia Reference List
Frequently Mentioned Groups:
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (founded 1979): https://www.wpath.org/
Arcus Foundation: https://www.arcusfoundation.org/
List of Medical Associations: Supporting Trans Healthcare
There have never been only 2 genders:
EIGHT Genders in the Talmud: My Jewish Learning
Map of Gender Diverse Cultures: PBS
Sexist Sports Myth: "Males have an insurmountable biological advantage"
Cis Woman Dominates Men's Wrestling: Audrey Jimenez
Cis Woman Dominates Co-ed Ultra-Marathon: Anna Rutherford
Trans Man boxer Undefeated against Cis Men: Patricio Manuel
Womens' Sports Exist to Preserve Mens' Supremacy Illusion: Cyclist Example
Trans women are women, even in sports: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/abstract/9900/physical_fitness_and_exercise_performance_of.585.aspx
IOC study shows trans women have disadvantages compared to cis women: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/11/586
Frequently Referenced Examples:
9 Year Olds ARE getting tattoos: FOX10
Child marriage in the US: Newsweek
93% of cis women "Autogynephiles": Moser 2008
Intersex Science:
Intersex People Prefer to be Called Intersex
(DSD is a term predominantly imposed by others attempting to enforce a binary that does not exist)
Intersex Conditions: List (ISNA)
Biological sex: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-of-biological-sex/
Birth from XY Women: PubMed
Fertility in an XX/XY Woman: PubMed 2024
Ovulation in a Dual Fertile Hermaphrodite: Br J Surg 1982
Ovulation in Male Phenotype XX/XXY: J Clin Endo 1981
Autofertility in Hermaphrodites: PubMed
Parthenogenetic chimearism/mosaicism: BMJ
Parthenogenetic chimera 46xx/46xy: Nature
Fertility in an xx/xy chimera: FertStert
Sex/Chromosome mismatch 5% in many species: Biology Letters Journal
Sex-Gender Chart
Other Science & anti-nonsense references:
Spontaneous RNA self-assembly: Astrobiology
Functional Synthetic Cell: Protein Sci 2022
Bible Contradictions and more! LyingForJesus
Rion's Religious Library: Internet Archive
Religious vs Secular: Generosity Study
Half-Life of Collagen: PubMed
Tail-Loss Evolution: Nature