Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

Removing women’s breasts is the least complicated part of gender reassignment surgery, and even this can result in serious complications. The more significant problems are associated with genital ...

The Pentagon violated the constitutional rights of two transgender women by denying them health insurance coverage for gender-affirmation surgery recommended by their doctors, according to a recent ...

Approximately 1.6 million individuals in the US identify as TGD, with many seeking GAS to alleviate gender dysphoria and improve mental well-being. The study found 43.5% of participants underwent GAS, ...

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons says transgender youth should wait until age 19 to have any surgeries. Surgery is already rarely performed for transgender young people. The American Society ...

There’s a growing pushback against the practice of transgender surgery on minors at the state level. And it now appears Supreme Court justices are also questioning state-level efforts to silence ...

Adults who undergo transgender surgery are at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than adults who do not undergo transgender surgery.

Here’s one of the more confusing anomalies in state laws — and in liberal woke-think. Forty-one states have laws prohibiting a practice known as female genital mutilation, or cutting, on minors, ...

There’s a growing pushback against the practice of transgender surgery on minors at the state level. And it now appears Supreme Court justices are also questioning state-level efforts to silence ...