Trans News/ Issues

[Corkey]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mara-k...b_3444713.html

Good news on the SSN front.

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Corkey

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mara-k...b_3444713.html

Good news on the SSN front.

Awesome! Thanks for posting!

[Nadeest]

Apparently, the AMA has passed a new resolution, in favor of transgender people having access to accurate birth certificates. Here is the link that I found it on: http://www.glad.org/current/item/gla...icates-for-tra

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Nadeest

Apparently, the AMA has passed a new resolution, in favor of transgender people having access to accurate birth certificates. Here is the link that I found it on: http://www.glad.org/current/item/gla...icates-for-tra

Wow, things seem to really be moving along nicely for trans people the last year. I feel like there is some real inertia moving towards equality.

Thank God, Obama came into office, or we would be at a standstill, if not sliding backwards

It is like trans is becoming the new gay. Corportations, professional organizations, etc., seem to be jumping on the bandwagon of it being "ok" to be gender variant, in order to be politically correct.

Do others here think similarly?

[DapperButch]

I received my January-March 2013 volume of the International Journal of Transgenderism today in the mail at work.

I don't remember the name of the study, but it was written by Milton Diamond, M.D. (he is a big dealio in the field) about identical twins.

I only read the abstract and forgot to bring it home with me. However, evidently based on a study he did, along with data from past studies, 20% of identical twin pairs both transitioned if one transitioned.

He says they controlled for environmental factors, but I didn't see anywhere that it said that this was for twins raised apart, so I will have to see how they controlled for this.

Anyway, interesting stuff!

[Linus]

"Hormonal therapy for transsexual patients is safe and effective, a multicenter European study indicates. The results will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco."

http://www.sciencecodex.com/hormonal...fective-114284

[Greyson]

Originally Posted by Linus

"Hormonal therapy for transsexual patients is safe and effective, a multicenter European study indicates. The results will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco."

http://www.sciencecodex.com/hormonal...fective-114284

Thanks for posting this Linus. Honestly, I still have concerns. I hope in the near future there will be studies done on long term use of hormones. This study was based on only 12 months of study.


"Hormonal therapy involves large doses of male or female sex hormones, which has led to concern about its health effects. This study found that short-term hormonal therapy for transsexualism is effective and safe, with few side effects."

"Female-to-male transsexuals received a form of the male sex hormone testosterone. Male-to-female transsexuals received anti-androgen treatment in combination with a form of estrogen, which is the principal female sex hormone. Treatment was for 12 months."

I am in the SF Bay Area and I am going to see if I can get into conference to hear about the study and/or get an entire copy of the study. Thanks again.