Sexuality, Gender and Justice

Queer people’s behavior squashed the U.S. mpox outbreak in 2022. We shouldn’t have to rely on that to stop future outbreaks here or abroad

Many LGBTQ+ video gamers use gaming to build community, especially in jurisdictions that are considering anti-LGBTQ+ legislation

Hostility toward LGBTQ kids, enshrined in hundreds of new bills, has put families with such children under unprecedented threat, raising risks of suicide and physical attacks

A recent study on risk-taking and bisexuality made assumptions that some experts don’t agree with.

A grassroots online movement has helped shift the way scientists think about asexuality. But much is still unknown.

Some researchers say that the standard definition of sexual orientation is incomplete—and offer a tool for expanding it.

Despite some lawmakers’ claims, “cure-based recovery” for gay and transgender people comprises one of psychiatry’s longest and darkest chapters. We shouldn’t inflict it on today’s kids

Three major waves of opposition to transgender health care in the past century have cited faulty science to justify hostility

New research on asexuality shows why it’s so important for doctors and therapists to distinguish between episodes of low libido and a consistent lack of sexual attraction

Young people do not fall into neat categories of race, sexual orientation or gender identity. Research into LGBTQ mental health must take that into account

Moral panics aimed against trans people are both attacks on that community and part of a broader strategy to control youth across the U.S.

Legislators, families and advocates are fighting to protect access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth and adults nationwide

Ova don’t make a woman, and sperm don’t make a man

Decades of data support the use and safety of puberty-pausing medications, which give transgender adolescents and their families time to weigh important medical decisions

Hate speech from the far right is increasing the risk of violence against LGBTQ+ people such as the Club Q shooting

Lessons from HIV/AIDS and SARS-CoV-2/COVID for harm reduction

Laws that ban gender-affirming treatment ignore the wealth of research demonstrating its benefits for trans people’s health

I am a future psychiatrist hoping to care for transgender people. But I fear these laws will make it difficult to do so

Recent measures in Florida, Texas and elsewhere serve to traumatize trans children and their families, uphold ideas that trans children are inherently troubled and go against medical advice

Bills that restrict access to gender-affirming health care ignore research

After transitioning in 1917, Alan L. Hart helped alter medical history

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

Some states are going to war against young transgender people

Research shows the bill will improve public health, and its “dangers” have been debunked