On 1 May 2025, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released their report on trans youth treatment, as mandated by US President Donald Trump’s 28 January 2025 Executive Order “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation” (link goes to archive.org mirror from the same day). The report Continue Reading
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Fourth Japanese High Court Finds No Marriage Equality Unconstitutional
PHOTO: Nagoya High Court building, by Evelyn-Rose, via Wikimedia Commons. So many courts in Japan have found the country not allowing same sex couples to marry unconstitutional that we are having trouble thinking of new, catchy titles for articles. Hopefully, parliament will listen and we won’t have to! (See our Continue Reading
Did the Cass Review shred the truth?
tl;dr Almost a year ago, when the Cass Review’s final report was released at midnight, I was preparing for a long night of reading while making a cup of tea. As I skimmed through the 388-page document, I quickly tweeted out potentially problematic claims from the report to help more Continue Reading
Two New Papers on Qualitative Research Not Included In Cass
Two papers published in December 2024 and January 2025 as open articles delve into narrative accounts discussing trans health care for adolescents and young adults. These papers are based on research commissioned by the Cass Review, but which were conducted independently of it, over a period between March 2022 and Continue Reading
Major Trans Stories Out of Japan, December 2024
Outside of the major cases regarding marriage equality in Japan which we have been reporting on (with the latest case out of Fukuoka discussed here), there have been a few other stories that definitely deserve a look. The first is the story of a trans woman’s efforts to get unreasonable Continue Reading