Hacker News with Generative AI: Gender Identity

Census reveals high disability rates among gender-diverse Canadians (medicalxpress.com)
Using data from the latest census, York University researchers from the Faculty of Health found Canadians who identify as gender diverse experience disability at rates much higher than their cis counterparts. In particular, nonbinary individuals consistently had the highest levels of disabilities, followed by binary-transgender individuals.

Disability, Gender Identity, Health, Canada, Research

5 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 0 comments

Health Resources Vanish Following DEI and Gender Orders (nytimes.com)
Federal and state health officials and staff members scrambled on Friday to comply with a 5 p.m. deadline by the Trump administration to terminate any programs that promote “gender ideology,” and to withdraw documents and any other media that may do so.

Politics, Health, Gender Identity

5 points by jkosoy 21 days ago | 0 comments

NYT: Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says (nytimes.com)
An influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs because of the charged American political environment.

Science, Healthcare, Politics, Gender Identity

11 points by janandonly 120 days ago | 2 comments

U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says (nytimes.com)
An influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs because of the charged American political environment.

Politics, Healthcare, Gender Identity, Puberty

9 points by yasp 120 days ago | 0 comments

U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says (nytimes.com)
An influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs because of the charged American political environment.

Medical Research, Politics, Gender Identity, Health

45 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 121 days ago | 41 comments

U.S. fleet welcomes newest USS New Jersey, the first gender-neutral submarine (northjersey.com)
A Saturday ceremony in Sandy Hook Bay welcomed the new USS New Jersey into the U.S. fleet.