Trans children in the UK are the targets of an escalating moral panic, centred around access to affirmative adolescent healthcare. Combining moral panic theory ...

Oslo University Hospital Five researchers at Norway’s national gender incongruence clinic are appealing a university committee’s finding they committed “gross negligence” and scientific misconduct …

We call on the Senedd and Welsh Government to direct the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) to: Immediately unfreeze scheduled and approved gender-affirming surgeries for patients who have already completed assessments. Ensure that any ongoing clinical review is conducted concurrently without disrupting active, established patient care. Publish clear, transparent Terms of Reference and a strict timeline for the independent review of the Welsh Gender Service.

Questions are being raised over the evidence behind NHS Wales's decision to cancel surgeries for Welsh Gender Service patients, who tell QueerAF of their 'absolute devastation'

Gender-affirming medical treatment for adolescents (defined as the start of puberty to age 18 years) has become an increasingly contested area of medicine in recent years. 13 reviews have been conducted since 2017 (with seven since 2023) to summarise studies on the potential effects of pubertal suppression and gender-affirming hormone therapy on psychosocial, cognitive, and physical outcomes in adolescents who are transgender, gender diverse, or non-binary. As systematic reviews are seen as the highest quality of sources of empirical knowledge according to the principles of evidence-based medicine, these reviews have far-reaching influence on government and health-care policies and practice, and prompt broader societal debates.

After a hiatus, we are ecstatic to bring back the LGBTQ+ STEMinar this 6th of November 2026 to be held in person at Queen Mary University of London.

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A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

For decades, scientists have documented plastic inside the stomachs of seabirds. We have measured it, weighed it, counted it, photographed it, and described the damage it causes.