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 [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/podcasts/the-daily/transgender-teenagers-clinic-texas.html] , detailing that state’s effort to ban [https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/O-MastersJaime202202221358.pdf] “elective procedures for gender transitioning, 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 I’m worried there’s a new group of adolescents who have pre-existing mental-health problems, and they’re looking for solutions, and they’re looking for an explanation for who they are … And there’s a bit of, I would say, fantasy about seizing upon an identity that to them may explain their distress. Lisa Selin Davis 6 Jan 2022 · 12 min read