Gender identity among adolescents initiating hormone therapy is "highly stable," the authors write.

Gender studies focuses on the ways gender identity and sexual orientation shape behaviors and feelings, and it investigates ...

It's good news for parents and teens looking into trans-supportive healthcare.

Decades of neuroscientific work have focused on exploring a biological basis for transgender identity — but researchers must take societal factors into account. Guy T’Sjoen is a clinical ...

As a preteen and teen, when you asked for something ill-advised because everyone else was doing it, you likely heard a parent admonish, “What if all of your friends were jumping off the Brooklyn ...

Individuals are receiving diagnoses of gender dysphoria (GD) — also known as gender identity disorder — at younger ages, according to a new study published in General Psychiatry, an open access ...

Cardiovascular health scores in sexual and gender minority adults do not differ by gender identity or gender-affirming hormone therapy use.

The data refute the rapid-onset gender dysphoria hypothesis by showing that the initially higher depressive symptoms reported by youths transitioning from cisgender to transgender or gender diverse ...

A new study challenges the popular claim that medical interventions improve trans-identifying people’s mental health. Rather, the study argues, nonmedical factors like social support and coping style ...

A resurfaced 1991 study that examines the mothers of boys and their gender identity has been making the rounds on social media with pundits and influencers on all sides weighing in on it. The study, ...

An extensive register-based study conducted in Finland has found an increase in severe mental health problems among some adolescents and young adults who have undergone medical gender reassignment (GR ...

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