Feedback on Stonewall ‘A Vision for Change’ – Parent’s perspective. We warmly welcome Stonewall’s commitment to transgender advocacy. This consultation is a very timely opportunity to build a stron…| Growing Up Transgender
1 post published by growinguptransgender during July 2025| Growing Up Transgender
Pragmatism or selling out the weakest? Last week Stonewall shared their latest strategy. Reading it you’d barely notice that trans children are facing an acute escalation in targeted persecut…| Growing Up Transgender
1 post published by growinguptransgender during June 2025| Growing Up Transgender
I keep coming across research, written by authors who are not non-binary, that includes the confident statement that a majority of non-binary people are not transgender, or that a majority of non-b…| Growing Up Transgender
Are we sure? Today EHRC released its consultation on the segregation of trans people. There seems to be general trans community momentum behind an assumption that we want to get as many people as possible to respond to this consultation. I just want to ask…. Are we sure? The consultation is not a consultation on … Continue reading EHRC Consultation: Are We Sure?| Growing Up Transgender
I was an academic expert invited to submit expert opinion & evidence to the Autumn 2024 closed consultation on the legal and criminal ban on puberty blockers. I’m one of the experts that Wes has claimed to have listened to in agreeing to make this ban permanent. Here is my submission: Proposed changes to the … Continue reading Puberty Blocker Ban: Invited Expert Submission| Growing Up Transgender
In 2020 I summarised the then published research on puberty blockers in a blog. That blog post remains a comprehensive overview of the pre 2020 literature, with relevance to discussions today. There has been a significant body of research on puberty blockers published since that 2020 blog, that I will summarise and keep updated here. … Continue reading Latest Evidence on Puberty Blockers| Growing Up Transgender
(or why I won’t be responding to another government consultation on trans healthcare). Just weeks after having submitted an invited response (invited as an academic expert) to a government consultation on making a legal ban on puberty blockers permanent, ANOTHER government consultation on trans healthcare has today been launched. This one is on adult trans … Continue reading Is this an abusive relationship?| Growing Up Transgender
On the 3rd full day of WPATH 2024, there was one session that I wanted to write up in slightly more detail, as it is very relevant to those working with or supporting trans children and young people. (My original WPATH 2024 blog is available here). The session was titled “New long-term research on adolescent … Continue reading WPATH 2024: Part Two| Growing Up Transgender
At the end of 4 days of trans health presentations from researchers, clinicians and community advocates from across (parts of) the world, I wanted to capture some of my key learnings and reflections. The conference took place the last week of September, in Lisbon, Portugal. This is my first WPATH (a conference of the World … Continue reading WPATH 2024| Growing Up Transgender
In trans children’s healthcare there is so much intentionally bad science, so much science that fundamentally misunderstands (or chooses to misrepresent) trans experiences. The quantity of bad science overwhelms – we challenge some, whilst other pieces of bad science slip through undetected. I just this morning had my attention drawn to some fundamentally bad science … Continue reading Gender Dysphoria and puberty blockers| Growing Up Transgender
Funding for the long awaited study on puberty blockers was announced this week, with £10 million pounds designated for a study running until 2031. The study team at a glance appears to be fully cis…| Growing Up Transgender
