Doctors should ditch the requirement for a mental health assessment of transgender teens and adults before prescribing them hormone treatment, argues an activist and bioethicist, drawing on their own personal experience in the Journal of Medical Ethics, MedicalXPress reports. The practice is dehumanizing, unjustified and turns the process of transformation into the treatment of a mental illness,(…)
A European study of nearly 1,000 gay male couples who had sex without condoms — where one partner had HIV and was taking antiretroviral drugs to suppress it — has found the treatment can prevent sexual transmission of the virus. After eight years of follow-up of the so-called serodifferent couples, the study found no cases(…)
Zeta Phi Beta, a historically black sorority founded at Howard University, says transgender women are not eligible for membership. A “diversity statement” adopted by the Zeta Phi Beta International Executive Board on Jan. 12 states “an individual must be a cisgender woman” to join the organization. The statement at the same time says the sorority(…)
Gay and bisexual men experience erectile dysfunction at a higher rate than their heterosexual counterparts. New UK research found that 56% of gay or bi men experience erectile dysfunction, whereas only 46% of straight men do. For one in four gay or bi men, it’s an issue most or every time they’re with a partner. Of(…)
Clothing giant Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) has expanded its relationship with a leading LGBTI youth organization. For the next year A&F will broaden its relationship with The Trevor Project. It is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTI young people. This year’s partnership will expand the relationship since A&F began supporting the(…)
Massachusetts is the state with the best LGBTI-inclusive business climate in the US, a new study has found. The east-coast state ranked ahead of California and New York to take the top spot. This is according to the LGBT+ Business Climate Index, a survey conducted by business advisory group, Out Leadership. In the report, the orgainsation noted(…)
A transgender man has received an enormous bill of $93,000 for eight nights spent in a medical centre after a suicide attempt. Oliver Jordan—who is from Tulsa, Oklahoma—posted a photo of the bill on Twitter,which has since gone viral, amassing more than 30,000 likes and retweets. He captioned the photo: “This is how expensive it(…)
Many schools and universities have banned Chick-fil-A due to their LGBT+ stance. We’ve put together a timeline of the institutions that have removed or barred the fast-food chain from their campuses. The restaurant company, which has approximately 2,000 branches in the US, often makes headlines due to its anti-LGBT point of view and support of(…)
A new report published today (7 May) exposes the ‘widespread failure’ of police forces across the US to protect and serve trans people. Policies are failing to modernize in what researchers describe as ‘systemic neglect.’ The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) worked with dozens of local and state groups to analyze how 25 of the nation’s largest(…)
An all-male, historically black college in Atlanta, Georgia, will start admitting some transgender students in 2020. Morehouse College announced that it will begin to accept transgender men, but not trans women. “In a rapidly changing world that includes a better understanding of gender identity, we’re proud to expand our admissions policy to consider trans men who want(…)