Gender Dysphoria

• ‘Winging it’: Trans health-care coverage spotty, hard to navigate across Canada 

  Advocates hope provinces follow Yukon's lead and cover gender-affirming procedures like facial feminization and laser hair removal. Experts also want more providers offering care.

  Features

  Jun 25, 2022
  
• Finding their voice: Glenrose program helps trans, gender-diverse people speak the way they want

  Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital speech language pathologists help trans, gender-diverse and non-binary people find a voice and communication style that matches their true self.

  Perspectives

  Jun 9, 2022
  
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• B.C. father’s attempt to stop child’s gender transition tossed out by appeal court

  The father went to court after learning his child, who was assigned female at birth, was undergoing hormone therapy to transition to a boy.

  Canada

  Jan 11, 2020
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• MRI scans suggest transgender people’s brains resemble their identified gender: study

  The brains of transgender people who identify as men resemble biologically male brains in some ways and vice versa, research suggests.

  Health

  May 24, 2018
• Donald Trump signs new transgender military ban

  Trump released an order Friday night banning most transgender troops from serving in the military except under “limited circumstances.”

  World

  Mar 24, 2018
• Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike after army approves treatment

  A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks website will end a hunger strike after the Army agreed to allow her to receive medical treatment for her gender dysphoria

  World

  Sep 13, 2016
• New study urges WHO to change transgender health issues from mental illness

  Transgender people are suffering healthcare and legal setbacks because it’s misdiagnosed by the World Health Organization as a mental illness, a new study suggests.

  Health

  Jul 28, 2016
• Gender-confirming surgeries made insured service for New Brunswickers

  The New Brunswick government has announced it will make medically necessary gender-confirming surgeries an insured service.

  Health

  Jun 3, 2016