Gender-Transition Decisions Should Be Made by Families, Not the State This month, the New York Times ran a two-part podcast series titled When Texas Went After Transgender Care, detailing that state’s effort to ban “elective procedures for gender transitioning, including reassignment surgeries that can cause sterilization, mastectomies, removals of otherwise healthy body parts, and administration of puberty-blocking drugs or Lisa Selin Davis 25 Apr 2022 · 9 min read
A Desister’s Tale How many trans-identified children “desist”? That is, how many identify as transgender for a time, and then eventually stop doing so, prior to medical intervention (as distinct from detransitioners, who return to identifying with their natal sex after undergoing some form of medical transition)? The answer is that no one Lisa Selin Davis 11 Feb 2022 · 9 min read
A Trans Pioneer Explains Her Resignation from the US Professional Association for Transgender Health In the past, we were told that people who were transgender had a deep-seated psychiatric disorder, which no longer is the prevailing view, but for many years it was, which was why so many trans people feel traumatized, especially adult trans people, who were basically told they were crazy. Lisa Selin Davis 6 Jan 2022 · 12 min read
