More children and adolescents are identifying as transgender and offered medical treatment, especially in the US. But some providers and European authorities are urging caution because of a lack of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Schuyler Bailar was assigned female at birth. But as a child, he couldn't shake the sense that he wouldn't grow up to be a woman. ...

People can question their gender for a lot of reasons, but many people do so because they feel uncomfortable in their body or in living as the gender they were assigned at birth. This discomfort is ...

What does it feel like to experience gender dysphoria? It’s when the gender you’re assigned at first — female, for example — doesn’t match your gender identity. It affects more than 120,000 American ...

To feel at peace in your flesh vessel (a.k.a. your body) is a gift, and for a variety of reasons, it’s a beatific feeling that seems out of reach for many. Admittedly, having a body is weird in ...

Gender dysphoria may be a lifelong condition, but people can find ways to change their feelings about their bodies. Gender dysphoria is a condition involving significant distress or discomfort due to ...

Although various names have referred to it, the phenomenon of gender dysphoria has been well-studied for over a century. Gender dysphoria occurs when a person's biological sex doesn’t match their ...

Editor's note: This article has been updated to provide clarification and further perspectives on the information presented. A series of reviews commissioned to inform the final Cass Review report ...

I learned about working with transgender individuals by doing it. Why did I have to learn by doing? Because the existing research before the mid-2000s was both scant and suspect. Suspect, because ...

The authors concluded that there is likely a link between autism and gender dysphoria, one that “warrants the investigation.” Yet a new study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental ...