Are you trying this at home? If your medical advisors are other trans people, or you’re just concerned about the medical risks you’re taking on with hormone therapy, you need to read this article.
This article is a broad overview of just a few researchers in the field of Gender Identity Disorder, and is meant to be only one in what will hopefully be several articles on the subject of bias within GID research.
Wondering how you’re going to finance surgery? Find out how others have paid the piper (and the piper’s anesthesiologist, and the piper’s surgical nurses… )
What are the issues facing elderly trans people? Listen in on a Q & A session with Hawk Stone, a therapist from Albany, NY who trains health care providers on providing medically correct services that are sensitive to the diverse needs of GLBT people.
For this milestone issue, the fourth of a quarterly magazine, Justin writes about the past and future of Trans-Health, and asks for your help in Trans-Health’s work to educate trans people and our health care providers on our unique health and fitness needs.
Intersex activist Emi Koyama responds about being quoted in our article, Accessing Health Care.
The health of trans people is a growing concern in the GLBT community. Justin’s article covers the health-related sessions at Transcending Boundaries, a bi and trans conference held last October in Connecticut.
Two transmen and their respective seven-year olds spend a week “roughing it” in an air-conditioned cabin, go fishing, reinvent the family, and explore the parenting role of transgendered mothers.
Justin trespasses on the men’s locker room and gives the scoop from behind both locker room doors… is it true that women’s locker rooms don’t smell of sweat and piss?
Can mammograms cause cancer? Is there any research on the risk factors for trans people? Get the real facts on silicone implants, and find out about a new pilot outreach to the trans community by the American Cancer Society.