Policing Transgender People

Policing Transgender People: Discretionary Police Power and the Ineffectual Aspirations of One Australian Police Initiative

Police policy documents often articulate strategies and approaches that police organizations want to implement in their efforts to break down barriers with minority groups. However, most police policy documents are written for police audiences and not for members of the public. Police policy documents serve as a reflection of the aspirations of the agency and not necessarily the practice of the...

Screening programs overlook transgender people.

Structural Connectivity Networks of Transgender People

Although previous investigations of transsexual people have focused on regional brain alterations, evaluations on a network level, especially those structural in nature, are largely missing. Therefore, we investigated the structural connectome of 23 female-to-male (FtM) and 21 male-to-female (MtF) transgender patients before hormone therapy as compared with 25 female and 25 male healthy control...

Ensuring an inclusive global health agenda for transgender people

Perspectives There is a growing commitment in public health to understand and improve the health and well-being of transgender people and other gender minorities, who comprise an estimated 0.3–0.5% (25 million) of the global population. 1 The adoption of The 2030 agenda for sustainable development and its pledge to " leave no one behind " has given renewed impetus to this movement. 2 Transgende...

Violence against transgender people: A review of United States data

Article history: Transgender people face ma Received 14 December 2007 Received in revised form 31 December 2008 Accepted 20 January 2009 Available online 24 January 2009