Sexual biology and intersex conditions
- What is intersex?
- Phallometer
- What is the Agenda of the Intersex Patient Advocacy Movement?
- Daphna Joel TED Talk – Are Brains Male or Female?
- Scientific American: Visualising sex as a spectrum
- Update on the Biology of Transgender Identity
- Research note: intersexuality, feminism and the case for gender binaries
- Biological evidence for trans people
- Endocrine Society position statement on Transgender Health
Mental Health
- Cornell study – What does the scholarly research say about the effect of gender transition on transgender well-being?
- Cambridge Study – LGB Mental Health
- Lancet study: Removing transgender identity from the classification of mental disorders
- Gender Diagnoses and ICD-11 – Gender dysphoria moved out of “mental disorders”and renamed gender incongruence
- A list of references re: the effectiveness of transition to improve mental health
- Physical and Mental Health of Transgender Older Adults: An At-Risk and Underserved Population
- Myths About Transition Regrets
- Canadian Study – demonstrating support of trans people improves mental health reported here
- Minority Stress Model – Prejudice, Social Stress, and Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations: Conceptual Issues and Research Evidence, Ilan H. Meyer
Trans young people
- Transgender Kids Show Consistent Gender Identity Across Measures
- Transgender teens become happy, healthy young adults
- A critical commentary on follow-up studies and “desistance” theories about transgender and gender-nonconforming children
- Outcomes for young trans people
- Research Paper: Young Adult Psychological Outcome After Puberty Suppression and Gender Reassignment
Studies, surveys and statistics
- Total Jobs Trans Employee Survey Results
- Trans Mental Health Study
- Trans Suicide – Guardian article reporting on trans suicide statistics.
- Trans suicide rates
- Abuse Statistics for Trans People – another article reports further stats here
Trans/LGB history, colonialism and gender across the world
- Two Spirit People
- Two Spirits documentary
- Gay India Festival: Laxmi on transgender and hijras issues
- Trans men in India: A minority within the marginalised
- binaohan, b (2014) decolonizing Trans/gender 101.. Biyuti publishing
- The idea that African homosexuality was a colonial import is a myth
- Trans people and the holocaust
- 5000 year old transgender skeleton
- Kinsey scale
- Marsha P Johnson & Sylvia Riviera – Stonewall Veterans
Autism and Trans/LGB People
- Autism and gender overlap
- Autism and bisexuality overlaps and obstacles
- What my female born autistic brother can teach . . .
Trans in education
- Are universtities doing enough to support trans students?
- Gender Unicorn Graphic
- Valuing all God’s Children – CofE anti-bullying booklet
- 10% of serious LGBT bullying done by teachers
- More resourced for educators
Other articles/ papers
- Cultural Cisgenderism Consequences of the Imperceptible
- Look beyond the binary – article in BACP Therapy Today
- LGBT+ Asylum seekers
- Information about Gender Recognition Act Reform
- Advice on the Equality Act
- Stonewall’s information on GRA reform
- Gender Recognition Act
- Julia Serano
Books
- Butler, J (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge
- Lev, A (2009) Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families. P.31, New York: Routledge
- Fine, C., 2010 Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference. New York: W. W. Norton & Co
- Cozolino, L., 2002. The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain. New York: W. W. Norton & Co
- Davies, D & Neal, C (1996) Pink Therapy: A Guide for Counsellors and Therapists Working with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients . OU Press
