Information pertaining to transgender, gender, & intersex research, healthcare, law, myths, and related topics:
Information pertaining to transgender, gender, & intersex research, healthcare, law, myths, and related topics:
Trans Biology:
Trans Cerebral Activation: 2009 Feb
A Discussion on "Biological Sex": Novella 2024
Trans Sex Indicator in Neurobiology: Nature 1995
Trans Brain Sex Marker: J Neurosci 2002
Brain sex in trans women: J CM 2022
Gender-Match Neuron Count in Limbic Nucleus : J CEM 2000
Trans Neuroanatomy: J Sex Med 2021
"Sex & Sensibility" primer video: Forrest Valkai, biologist.
Estrogen and Blood clots: TFS
Hormone levels & Pregnancy: Cl Endo 1994
Live births from trans women: UTx 2018
100% of trans mascs on HRT develop prostate tissue: J. Urol 2022
Trans Youth Science:
Utah review shows net positive of gender care for youth: Report
Youth GAC Improves Health: JAMA 2022
Youth GAC Improves Outcomes: JAH 2022
GAC HELPS teens (a LOT): JoP 2026
Less than 1 in 1000 trans kids access HRT or puberty blockers: JAMA
Puberty blockers prevent mental health deterioration: Kennedy 2025
"Chemical Castration" is temporary: Cleveland Clinic
CDC Trans Teen Survey: Report
Trans Youth Healthcare Bans CAUSE self-harm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5.epdf
Prohibiting Youth GAC is Governmental Child Abuse: AAP
The Trevor Project 2023 data: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2023/
Youth Persistence Rate at 5 years: 97.5%: AMA
98% of youth on blockers continue to HRT: Lancet 2022
Puberty blocker safety: https://www.healthline.com/health/are-puberty-blockers-reversible#safety
Perth Desistence Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2815512?fbclid=IwAR2s5nYu1NwElCD8PYi-3OfGzkJXlvk_ggqaGSV1MzQWiGc4aqykgIORGF0
Trans Youth Care is NOT "New" : Serano 2023
More Trans Science:
Gender Care IS Medically Necessary: AMA 2026
Suicide rates directly linked with discrimination: UCLA 2017
40 Year Post-GRS Satisfaction: PubMed 2022
<0.4% Adult Desistence (and more): US Trans Survey
0.3% Regret Rate: 2023 Jul
<1% Regret Rate: JAMA
Circumcision Regret Rate >25x Higher: Surveys
GAC Reduces Self Harm Metastudy
GAC Reduces suicidality by >62%: PMC
GAC Saves Lives: MHR 2014
GAC Improves Lives: BMC PH 2025
Amsterdam Cohort Paper: NIH
Lack of Gendercare is a Public Health Crisis: APA 2020
Cleveland Clinic GAC: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/procedures/gender-affirmation-surgery
"Sweden Study" (Suicide rates vs cis) [NOT pre-GAC vs post]: PubMed
Historical Trans Archive: DTA
Bathroom data: Julia Serano
Law:
Trans US Case Laws: Article
Arkansas Trans Healthcare Ban Ruling: https://wp.api.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/win-in-arkansas.pdf
Countering Pseudoscience & Conspiracy Theories:
Gender Critical Conspiracy Theory Debunked: Video presentation
Fascism & Transphobia: Rowan Ellis
Anti-trans Pseudoscience Network: SPLC
Conversion Therapy Network: HLN
ROGD Debunked: Article
Cass Review Refuted: Yale
Cass/NHS cover up deaths: Report
"Bathroom Predator" Myth: Admission it was made up
"LGB without T" is made up too
Doctors For Political Hire To Attack Healthcare: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/09/doctor-republican-trans-gender-affirming-minor-healthcare-lgbtq-rights
GLOBAL Gender Surgery Market Value (2022): https://www.acumenresearchandconsulting.com/sex-reassignment-surgery-market
ROGD is bunk: https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)01085-4/fulltext
Debunking Transphobia Reference List
Frequently Mentioned Groups:
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (founded 1979): https://www.wpath.org/
Arcus Foundation: https://www.arcusfoundation.org/
List of Medical Associations: Supporting Trans Healthcare
We Have ALWAYS Existed
Trans/NB Burials in Prehistoric Europe: CAJ 2023
Intersex Medieval Warrior: EJA 2021
5000 Year-Old Trans Skeleton: Pink 2011
Genders in Mesopotamia: QTP 2024
EIGHT Genders in the Talmud: My Jewish Learning
Map of Gender Diverse Cultures: PBS
Cis Gender Affirming Care
Circumscision (genital mutilation) kills children: Pubmed 2006
Cis Boys Get Gender-Affirming Care FAR MORE Than Trans Minors: JAMA
Sexist Sports Myth: "Males have an insurmountable biological advantage"
Winning Cis Girls Team Banned from Boys' League: WCPO
Cis Woman Dominates Men's Wrestling: Audrey Jimenez
Cis Woman Dominates Co-ed Ultra-Marathon: Anna Rutherford
Trans Man boxer beats Cis Men: Patricio Manuel
Trans Women have no detectable advantage in sport: BJSM 2025
Women have Equal or Greater Fast-Twitch Muscle Fibers: PLOS 2019
Womens' Sports Exist to Preserve Mens' Supremacy Illusion: Cyclist Example
Trans women are women, even in sports: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/abstract/9900/physical_fitness_and_exercise_performance_of.585.aspx
IOC study shows trans women have disadvantages compared to cis women: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/11/586
Other Myths:
Terfs DON'T represent most women: Sage 2025 ; Not In Our Name
What women want | Moms Risking Arrest to protect trans care for youth: 19th
Laws DON'T 'protect women' | Cis Grandma Sent to Men's Jail: Miami Herald
"High Desistence Rate" debunked: APA 2026
Kids DO get tattoos | 9 Year Olds getting tattoos: FOX10
"Kids can't _" | Child marriage in the US: Newsweek
"AGP" | 93% of cis women "Autogynephiles": Moser 2008
Sex ISN'T determined at conception | All embryos form all initial sex pathways (sex isn't strictly a function of DNA; if it were, that wouldn't be the case): [Textbook] Borahay, 2020
"3rd Gamete": JEZ 1905; Biol Cell 1983 ; Hum Rep 2002; Roughgarden 2004; Nature 2016
"Only Humans Transition" : Trans Lions 2016
How do you know whether you are right or left handed?*
Intersex Science:
Intersex People Prefer to be Called Intersex
(DSD is a term predominantly imposed by others attempting to pathologize and degrade)
Intersex Conditions: List (ISNA)
Biological sex: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-of-biological-sex/
Birth from XY Women: PubMed
Fertility in an XX/XY Woman: PubMed 2024
Ovulation in a Dual Fertile Hermaphrodite: Br J Surg 1982
Ovulation in Male Phenotype XX/XXY: J Clin Endo 1981
Autofertility in Hermaphrodites: PubMed
Parthenogenetic chimearism/mosaicism: BMJ
Parthenogenetic chimera 46xx/46xy: Nature
Human Parthenogenesis More Common? JRB 2023
Fertility in an xx/xy chimera: FertStert
Male (Intersex) Primate Gives Birth: Columbus 2023
Sex/Chromosome mismatch 5% in many species: Biology Letters Journal
Other Science & anti-nonsense references:
Spontaneous RNA self-assembly: Astrobiology
Genetic Entropy debunk: Math Biol 2024
Evolutionary Origins of Consciousness: Karamali 2023
Functional Synthetic Cell: Protein Sci 2022
Bible Contradictions and more! LyingForJesus
Rion's Religious Library: Internet Archive
Religious vs Secular: Generosity Study
Half-Life of Collagen: PubMed
Tail-Loss Evolution: Nature
New ERV with functional benefit: bioRxiv 2025
"Witnesses of the Spirit" Short Documentary
"The Bible Defense of Slavery" (1851): Internet Archive
Racial Disparities in Policing: Nature 2020