Tag: Transgender Issues
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Non-binary person, 33, in Canada wants taxpayers to fund $70k surgery to give them a vagina AND keep their penis
[ad_1] A person in Canada wants taxpayers to fund surgery to make them a vagina while also keeping a functional penis, in a first-of-its-kind case. The Ontario resident, 33, was born male but identifies as non-binary, meaning they are not exclusively male or female ‘but literally a mix’, court documents show. Ontario’s Health Insurance Plan…
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‘America needs to wake up’: Doctors and politicians praise England’s ‘landmark decision’ to ban puberty blockers for children over fears about drugs’ long-term harms – as they call for similar in US
[ad_1] The US should follow England in banning ‘irreversible’ puberty blockers for children under 18 years old, senators and doctors told DailyMail.com today. England’s national health service revealed Tuesday it would no longer prescribe the drugs to patients with gender dysphoria under 18 after finding there was not enough evidence about how safe they are or whether…
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The more than a dozen states where controversial laws BAN transgender people from legally transitioning
[ad_1] Over a dozen Republican-led states are advancing bills that could deny transgender people legal recognition. The pieces of legislation say there are only two sexes, male and female, that are defined based on what genitals the person was born with Kansas enacted a law last year that ended legal recognition of trans identities, meaning people…
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Dr Phil slams US doctors for performing sex-change surgeries on hundreds of trans children a year during Joe Rogan podcast: ‘It’s a social contagion’
[ad_1] Dr Phil, America’s controversial prime-time TV psychologist, slammed the medical community this week for rushing to put gender-confused children on hormonal therapy or give them reassignment surgery. Appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Dr Phillip McGraw, 73, said he was shocked that America’s leading child doctor group had endorsed the treatments despite countries…
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Woke GPs push for Royal College to cancel ‘gender critical’ event held at its HQ because it has ‘transphobic’ speakers
[ad_1] Woke medics are calling on Britain’s biggest GP body to cancel a ‘gender critical’ conference at its HQ because it is platforming ‘transphobic’ speakers. The Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG) will hold the event at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)’s conference centre in London next month. Speakers, including GPs, psychiatrists…
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New York father loses legal battle to stop his son, 8, from taking puberty blockers to change gender
[ad_1] New York family court officials have denied a father the legal right to stop his eight-year-old son taking life-changing hormones that would begin his medical transition to a girl. Dennis Hannon, 32, a senior software engineer from Buffalo, has been locked in a ‘nightmare’ legal battle with Erie Supreme Court spanning seven years, fighting…
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Transgender people are up to TWICE as likely to be depressed, study claims
[ad_1] One in six transgender people have long-term mental health problems, new research suggests. In the first study of its kind, those identifying as transgender were significantly more likely to suffer health issues such as depression and anxiety than the rest of the population. Researchers at the University of Manchester analysed GP survey data from…