The 'Wolves in White Coats' report was commissioned by the Trump-era HHS and is a political document, not independent research. Its central fraud…
The Trigonometry debate between Dr Helen Webberley and Kellie-Jay Keen covered puberty blockers, hormones, surgery, legal rights, and the history of…
The Cass Review's credibility has been further undermined by findings of researcher misconduct at Oslo University Hospital involving one of its…
D. Smith is a public detransitioner whose account has been amplified far beyond personal testimony to serve as a political argument against…
No medical test can prove that someone is trans. Brain scans, chromosomes, hormones, and blood tests tell you nothing reliable about gender identity.…
Pornography does not cause people to be transgender. The claim that media exposure drives transition is not supported by the research. Gender…
We do not yet know when or how gender identity develops. Some research points to prenatal hormonal and genetic influences, which is genuinely…
Diethylstilboestrol (DES) is a synthetic oestrogen prescribed to pregnant women from the 1940s through to the 1970s. Research has found that people…
Conversion therapy bans are not a solution in search of a problem. The evidence base is substantial and consistent: the NHS, the British…
Gender-nonconforming people, third-gender categories, and lives lived outside the male-female binary are documented across cultures and throughout…
Gillick competence does not mean a child asks for treatment and receives it. It means a clinician must establish that this particular child fully…
Lawsuits filed by detransitioners in the US allege that doctors failed to obtain proper informed consent before providing gender-affirming care.…
Gender-affirming medical treatment is essential healthcare. The NHS, the World Health Organisation, and the Royal College of Psychiatrists recognise…
Public funding of puberty blockers is a standard healthcare commissioning decision, not a misuse of public money. These medications have been used in…
The claim that trans-inclusive policy represents ideological capture or a civilisational threat substitutes alarm for evidence. Trans-inclusive…
Expertise in gender medicine, like expertise in any clinical subspecialty, is built through postgraduate practice, research, peer learning, and…
The debate about gender-affirming surgery for under-18s is often muddled by treating very different procedures as if they were the same thing.…
Anti-trans hostile debate online frequently uses NHS safety claims, detransition stories, and activist pile-on campaigns as tools of bad-faith…
Australia is developing national clinical guidelines covering puberty blockers for trans and gender-diverse young people. When ABC News covered this…
Puberty blockers pause puberty and their effects are largely reversible when stopped. They work by mimicking GnRH, a hormone the brain naturally…
Puberty blockers for precocious puberty and gender dysphoria are the same medications: GnRH analogues that pause the hormonal cascade driving…
Anti-trans disinformation typically arrives in a handful of recurring shapes: safety rhetoric that frames trans inclusion as a threat, false balance…
Being transgender is not a mental illness. The DSM-5 removed Gender Identity Disorder entirely and replaced it with Gender Dysphoria, recognising…
Affirming a trans child's gender identity does not cause harm. The research picture is consistent: trans young people with supportive families show…
Regret and detransition rates in gender-affirming care are low across the research literature, generally under five percent, and studies that follow…
Puberty blocker bans in the UK and beyond are political decisions that contradict the international medical consensus. Puberty blockers pause puberty…
Being a woman is an innate sense of identity, not a biological checklist. Defining womanhood through anatomy excludes many cisgender women too: those…
Research consistently shows that trans women who have undergone hormone therapy do not retain a straightforward or insurmountable performance…
Hostile, debate-framing videos about trans identity and gender-affirming care consistently outperform affirming content on YouTube and major social…
Trans women are women, and the refusal to recognise them as such follows a well-documented historical pattern. Angela Y Davis has shown how Black…
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The HHS report claiming gender-affirming care 'may' radicalize people was produced without peer review, without published data, and without disclosed…
A Finnish register study published in Acta Paediatrica in April 2026 found higher rates of psychiatric treatment among young people who sought gender…
Fem forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus er felt for grov uaktsomhet etter å ha brukt pasienters helseopplysninger i forskning uten samtykke. Saken…
Canada has not ignored the evidence on gender-affirming care for trans young people: it has read the same body of international research as every…
A SEGM-affiliated paper in Nature Human Behaviour raises methodological objections to a 2024 study finding that anti-trans laws increased suicide…
A curated reference guide to clinical guidelines, peer-reviewed studies, and expert analyses that demonstrate the evidence base for gender-affirming…
Helen Webberley has published the full list of concerns she raised in her GMC referral of Dr Hilary Cass, responding to public requests for…
Helen Webberley invites those affected by the Cass Review to share their experiences and perspectives in their own words.
Dr Helen Webberley has made a formal referral to the General Medical Council regarding Dr Hilary Cass, arguing the Cass Review falls short of…
Dr Webberley cuts through the noise to answer a straightforward question about the safety of gender affirming care, drawing on clinical evidence and…
A detailed look at the assumptions underlying the NHS's most controversial review and why critical re-examination of its findings remains essential.
An attack ad against US Senate candidate Sherrod Brown features a woman claiming she had gender-affirming surgery as a minor in Ohio. Court records…
The distress trans young people experience is real, well-documented, and linked to rejection, blocked care, and hostility, not to being trans. A New…
The Trump administration's HHS study claiming that support for trans people predicts political violence is not credible research. Experts across…
The Trump administration's Department of Health and Human Services has published a study, conducted by two conservative think tanks with known…
Helen can meet the biology argument on its own ground without conceding the premise: trans people do not need to prove themselves through…
Aryna Sabalenka expressed support for the WTA's transgender eligibility policy at a press conference in Montreal. Her words were measured. The Fox…
The Health Council of the Netherlands, the country's highest scientific advisory body, has completed a landmark two-year review of gender-affirming…
Helen has been clear that the Cass Review is internationally discredited. When a doctors' union stops pushing back, it is worth asking why, and what…
At least 38 Dutch websites run by a single anonymous administrator pose as helpful resources for people questioning their gender identity but contain…
Detransitioned people are real, their experiences matter, and they deserve compassion and honest care. But the Skeptic article frames transition…
A Pew Research Center survey conducted in February 2025 found that American support for restrictions on trans people has grown since 2022, with 66%…
The FTC's lawsuit against WPATH is not a consumer-protection action in any ordinary sense. It is an attempt to use federal law to delegitimise the…
A 52-study meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found no meaningful differences in upper-body strength, lower-body…
Helen assesses the BMA's LGBTQ+ equality commitments against its institutional response to the Cass Review. The BMA's equality page is strong: it…
The proposal of a "transgender spectrum disorder" diagnosis recycles the same playbook used to pathologise gay people: dress stigma in clinical…
Leading reproductive medicine specialists confirm that biological sex is a multidimensional construct. Legislation attempting to reduce it to a…
Debate around trans athletes in sport continues to intensify. Here is what the evidence and the rules actually say, and why blanket exclusion is not…
A brand-new migraine medication has been cleared for trials in children as young as six, raising questions about why established puberty blockers…
A parent's legitimate concerns about the NHS R22 research project deserve clear, honest answers about what it means for young trans people.
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