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Richard Cockett’s tracing of how the Austrian capital has shaped western politics, economics and culture is essential reading
Writer and historian Alison Li can trace her fascination with hormones to a rather gruesome origin: a biochem lab at the University of Calgary where, as an undergrad, she worked a few summers sawing cow skulls apart to access and work up the pituitary gland. Her time as a biochemistry student in the lab helped
Theorist Hil Malatino offers a compelling account of the persistent bad feelings with which trans people often struggle—but it comes with fashionable academic hang-ups that need to be reconsidered.
Phalloplasty — the surgery to make a penis — has grown more popular among trans men. But with a steep rate of complications, it remains a controversial procedure.
I suffered from gender confusion most of my life. I transitioned in my 30s and lived as a ‘woman’ for twenty years, having had surgery in 2003. A few years ago I started questioning scientific principles I took as truth. I read Rupert Sheldrake’s ‘The Science Delusion’ and looked at Bill Geade’s ‘Rope Theory’. I realised I had been deluded. Supposed facts were gross assumptions that didn’t hold up under scrutiny. Then I turned my attention to the science of transgender medicine. What I found shocked me. The samples were tiny, the conclusions biased. There were no dissenting ...