Anonymous asked:
Anonymous asked:
That’s an interesting theory I have not seen before. Given the trend to make it **easier** to transition–the push for “informed consent” vs. having to (say) live as the opposite sex for a year or more, and jump through various hoops to “prove” one is actually trans–I’m doubtful. In fact, I think it would make it easier to transition if people knew it was paid for. But I have also read that the US is considered a far easier place to medically transition than (for example) the UK, where the “treatments” are covered by the NHS. Do any readers have some knowledge on this, and/or in other European countries with national health care?
Genderqueer? Nah.
We could use a LOT more videos like this, made by strong, “gender nonconforming” women. Give the vulnerable, brainwashed teens a different channel to surf besides the FTM Transition Network…
These 3 minutes will brighten your day. Guaranteed.
“I hated the feminine gender role society enforces on women. But I loved the role I took instead. And I learned to love my body.”
And mom and dad loved their tomboy–and let her run free.
Just wanted to check in with my Tumblr compatriots. I’ve been focusing a bit more on my WordPress blog in recent days, but I’m still loving what you’re posting and I click over here at least once a day. I’ll respond to my inbox (well…not everything, but you knew that!) and I’ll be posting here from time to time. I think of Tumblr as my original home, and so many of you have been my inspiration. Most of you are younger than me. You young’uns give me heart and hope for the future.
This new rule, if implemented, would require all public and private insurers to cover gender transition services. Implications are far reaching and profound.
Nothing to see here, move along? Shrunken brain tissue seems a pretty high price to pay…
Research has shown that women have the advantage when it comes to memory and language, while men tend to have stronger spatial skills (though this too has been disputed). But due to ethical restrictions, no study had been able to track the direct effect that testosterone exposure has on the brain—until now. Using neuroimaging, Dutch and Austrian researchers found that an increase in this potent hormone led to shrinkage in key areas of the female (transitioning to male) brain associated with language. They presented their findings at last week’s annual meeting of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology in Amsterdam.
For the study, researchers scanned the brains of 18 individuals receiving high doses of testosterone as part of female-to-male gender reassignment surgery before and after hormone treatment. After just four weeks of receiving testosterone, participants had lost gray matter (which mainly processes information) in the regions of the brain that are used for language processing. That change amounted to a “real, quantitative difference in brain structure,” said researcher Rupert Lanzenberger of the Medical University of Vienna.
Alice Dreger is a brave woman.
In short, I can’t work at a medical school where my dean is allowed to censor the work of his faculty in the name of the hospital brand’s welfare. See my letter of resignation for details. For more background, you can see this blog post about what happened to our medical school to turn my work into a “branding” problem.
“An adolescent I know identifies as male and lives in a female body. He says he’s okay with the dichotomy. His problem is the pressure he feels: medicalize or else. He binds his breasts against his own wishes, despite extreme physical discomfort. He believes that once he is of age, he will have to begin taking masculinizing hormones he doesn’t want. His is a peculiar position, brought about by the peculiar time in which he is coming of age. A time of increased acceptance and possibility, a time of rabid political correctness and the silencing of dissent.”
A psychotherapist who works with teenagers offers a seldom-heard perspective on the transgender phenomenon.
