Parents are being pressured into transitioning their children by gender clinics, according to a new study, with the parent-child relationship suffering a qualitative drop following such procedures. The study, published in the “Archives of Sexual Behavior” on March 29, looked at the impact of rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) among adolescents and young adults (AYA)…

As a whistleblower’s claims remain under investigation, a top law enforcement official is urging The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital not to start new patients on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. The university has acknowledged it is “alarmed” and was launching its own internal review of allegations made in ex-worker Jamie Reed’s  3,500-word expose’ in…

Missouri attorney general says his office and two other agencies are investigating a St. Louis transgender clinic for allegedly “harming hundreds of children.” The investigation began two weeks ago after a whistleblower made “shocking allegations” about gender-transitioning practices at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Attorney General Andrew Bailey said in…

After reading a whistleblower’s “sickening” revelations about a pediatric gender clinic, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said his office was launching an immediate investigation of its practices. “This is a sickening account of forced sterilization and child abuse,” Hawley said in a tweet on Feb. 9, attaching the lengthy whistleblower account of a former employee of The Washington…

In 1973, the same year that the American Psychiatric Association stopped calling homosexuality a mental disorder, Dr. Stephen Levine finished his residency in psychiatry. Within a month, an unforgettable patient crossed his path. The man was sitting in his backyard, under an oak tree. He had shoved a gun in his mouth and was threatening…

An Australian psychiatrist has warned there may be an increase in the number of litigations related to gender transition surgeries on an international scale, saying the trend highlights the loopholes in the current gender-affirmative model. The concern follows a media report by The Sydney Morning Herald about a Sydney woman who had hormone treatment and surgically…