Transsexual differences caught on brain scan - life - 26 January 2011. Differences in the brain's white matter that clash with a person's genetic sex may hold the key to identifying transsexual people before puberty.
Doctors could use this information to make a case for delaying puberty to improve the success of a sex change later. Medics are keen to find concrete physical evidence to help those children who feel they are trapped in the body of the opposite sex. One key brain region involved is the BSTc, an area of grey matter. But the region is too small to scan in a living person so differences have only been picked up at post-mortem. Antonio Guillamon's team at the National University of Distance Education in Madrid, Spain, think they have found a better way to spot a transsexual brain. In a separate study, the team used the same technique to compare white matter in 18 male-to-female transsexual people with that in 19 males and 19 females. A 2010 study of 121 transgender people found that 38 per cent realised they had gender variance by age 5. Estimating the Prevalence of Transsexualism. UCLA Study Estimates Approximate 700,000 Transgender People in the USA.
By Gary J.
Gates, Williams Distinguished Scholar Williams Institute – UCLA School of Law Increasing numbers of population-based surveys in the United States and across the world include questions that allow for an estimate of the size of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population. This research brief discusses challenges associated with collecting better information about the LGBT community and reviews eleven recent US and international surveys that ask sexual orientation or gender identity questions. The brief concludes with estimates of the size of the LGBT population in the United States.
Key findings from the research brief are as follows: An estimated 3.5% of adults in the United States identify as lesbian, gay,or bisexual and an estimated 0.3% of adults are transgender. This implies that there are approximately 9 million LGBT Americans, a figure roughly equivalent to the population of New Jersey. …. skipping to the good part …. Like this: Like Loading... National Center For Transgender Equality's Harper Jean Tobin And High Schooler Evan Morris Discuss Transgender School Issues. This month we've shared a Voice to Voice conversation between author Whitney Joiner and the ACLU's Chris Hampton and one between Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill, authors of the new book “LGBT Youth in America’s Schools," as part of our anti-bullying program currently running on The Huffington Post.
Today we bring you a conversation between Harper Jean Tobin, the National Center for Transgender Equality's Policy Counsel, and Evan Morris, a high school student in Montgomery County, Maryland. As Policy Counsel, Harper Jean coordinates all aspects of advocacy on federal administrative policies and regulations for NCTE. When she is not engaging with federal agencies and the current administration, she works to provide information for the public about laws and policies that affect transgender people.
Here Harper Jean and Evan discuss their personal experiences with being trans in school, bullying, intrusive questions and more. Evan Morris: Thank you! Evan Morris: I did. Evan Morris: I agree. Transgender at five. But it kept getting more intense, all this boyishness from their younger daughter.
She began to argue vehemently — as only a tantrum-prone toddler can — that she was not a girl. “I am a boy,” the child insisted, at just 2 years old. And that made Jean uneasy. It was weird. “I am a boy” became a constant theme in struggles over clothing, bathing, swimming, eating, playing, breathing. Jean and Stephen gave up trying to force Kathryn to wear the frilly dresses that Grandma kept sending. Kathryn didn’t even want to be around other little girls, let alone acknowledge that she biologically is one. Jean tried to put her daughter’s behavior to rest. “See? Kathryn looked up at her mom, incomprehension clouding her round face.
“When did you change me?” The questions begin Was something wrong with Kathryn? Her little girl’s brain was different. “But this young? She went online to see if a book about transgender kids even existed. Bingo. All of it is a new and controversial phenomenon. ‘Not just a tomboy’