Gender Articles

A gender dysphoria assessment done well takes about six months, not one to six appointments. A licensed psychologist explains what the time is for, what gets ruled out, how capacity to consent is weighed, and what the findings can and cannot settle.

Autistic people are three to six times more likely to be transgender. Nobody has explained why. So why is everyone so certain what it means?

Government health documents are, or at least they should be, boring. Tables, methods sections, confidence intervals. In August, HHS published one with a scalpel and blood spatter on the cover. One finding in it is real. Everything else borrows its credibility.

At the behest of my mother, I recently sat down to watch the Untold Netflix docuseries, focusing on Manti Te'o and his experience with being catfished by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. While it may be easy to assert that Ronaiah is the story's villain, the true evil was the systemic failure to affirm diversity.