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Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine
6. Managing Gender Dysphoria in Youth: European Practice Changes
Our Response to the Southern Poverty Law Center
September 10, 2025
The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine was established to promote evidence-based, ethical care for children, adolescents, and young adults with gender dysphoria. In recent years, politicized attacks on organizations and individual researchers working in this...
Reassessing the Trevor Project’s Suicide-Attempt Findings
Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition
SEGM Summary:This study examined the 5-year gender identity development trajectory of transgender-identified children who underwent early social gender transition (SGT). The children were, on average, 6-7 years old at the time of SGT. Five years later, at the average age of 11-12, almost all—97....
A Legal Assessment of the Dutch Protocol for Transgender Care to Children: Evidence, Ethics and Procedure
In this article, two Dutch legal experts (Smeehuijzen and Hoekstra) and a medical ethicist (Smids) evaluate whether the Dutch Protocol as laid out in the 2018 Dutch guideline for somatic gender care (i.e., medical and surgical interventions) meets the necessary requirements for it to have...
Factors Associated With Desistence and Persistence of Childhood Gender Dysphoria: A Quantitative Follow-Up Study
SEGM Summary
Among other findings, young boys who are socially transitioned are at vastly greater risk of persisting into a regime of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition Who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners
To qualify as medically or surgically transitioned, participants needed to have had one or more of the following interventions for the purpose of transitioning: puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, anti-androgens, or a surgical procedure, and then detransitioned by stopping the medications or...
Gender detransition: a case study
What happens when a young person's intensely experienced desire to undergo medical transition is granted, with minimal attention paid to the factors contributing to the development of gender dysphoria, and with no attempts to ameliorate the distress non-invasively first? This case study is an...
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
Last May, the United Nations published the report “A/HRC/59/47: Sex-based violence against women and girls: new frontiers and emerging issues”, authored by Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, to be delivered at the 59th session of the Human Rights Council.
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