Feel a huge lump in my throat and burst into tears and continues throughout the night: more than natural reaction when your father tells you that he decided to begin its transition path to become a woman.
Juno-Obedin Maliver, Stanford University School of Medicine, in a recently published study has examined the presence of arguments specificil health of LGBTQ people in the course of study of 176 medical schools in Canada and the United States, and has interviewed About the deans of these faculties. The results of the research show [...]
Transsexual and transgender people in their lives are forced to deal constantly discrimination, prejudice and violence, in addition to traumatic and stressful aspects that already characterize their life experience. Transphobic attitude widespread in Italian culture is exacerbated by a lack of adequate training and updating on sexuality and gender for [...]
A new study published recently in the Journal of Communication underlines how difficult it is to talk about safe sex in the transgender community. The study starts from an observation of Dr. Kosenko rather alarming: while in the trans-American population, the percentage of incidence of HIV is below 1%, in the trans community is as high as 60%. Based on [...]
In the week dell'Europride, June 6th National Conference was held on "The services and organizations for transsexual and transgender people: between research and best practices," hosted by CESV-SPES in Rome. The event was sponsored dall'ONIG, in collaboration with the Transsexual Identity Movement, the Association of Volunteers "Dragonfly" and SAIFIP-SC Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery [...]
It was held in Rome on 13 and 14 May the second edition of the International Conference "I am, I skim" at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, University "La Sapienza" of identity intersex, transgender, lesbian and gay. The conference was entirely self-financed and organized by students, students, young psychologists. Moreover, thanks to significant efforts [...]
According to a report published by the Notiziegay.com site in Italy and France LGBT people have a hard time at work. Catherine TRIPON, spokesman for the French L'Autre Cercle Association has recently released results of a survey on discriminatory attitudes to work in France, where 53% of LGBT admits to not being able to speak freely of their [...]
Yesterday was presented to the general public, as they say, a new voluntary association called the Rainbow Parents Network and sharing the intent behind the scenes and having participated in the work of implementation, we could not dedicate a post to the event 's goal is to provide support to homosexuals and transgender parents with children [...]
No, we're not talking about people who use too much brain to have sex, but new research on the brains of transsexuals. It is in these days the news that Spanish scientists have photographed significant differences in four areas in the brains of transsexual people, through the technique of magnetic resonance. You can see [...]
"THE" transgender Anna is gone or has gone to the grocery store? Wikipedia thus exemplifies the difference "academic" and "journalistic" between having a name for women and be biologically a woman (in which the female has the conjugation of the verb) or have a name and be a transgender woman (yes that changes the [...]
The year began with good news. Psicologiagay.com is at 13 th place in the ranking of LGBTQ blogs compiled by Wikio. A good result considering that we are on line for about a year The ranking is the result of a personal analysis of Maurizio Cecconi, blogger responsible for the site "Puta. A Queer Invader ". If you want to check out the [...]
This is the first question asked when a woman expects a * child * and do not yet know the sex. But the answer that gives the gynecologist and that seems certain it can create some question mark when passing a few years. Last year he made headlines around the world with great news pregnant man [...]
After the case Marrazzo you too have seen the television vied to accommodate transgender people. Almost time to go fashion and in danger of being left behind and not "cool" if you do not have at least one as a guest. A question that I have done many, with the prelude "you who are a psychologist ..." [...]
One thing that makes me so angry (and makes sure the hackles of many people trangender or transgender) is the erroneous attribution (attribute the fact!) Gender referring to transsexuals. A familiar example is that of Patricia, became famous after the story of Lapo Elkann. If you remember all the newspapers (and journalists) spoke, as [...]
