If you have been following recent coverage about gender-affirming health care, detransition will not be an unfamiliar topic. From mainstream journalists to transgender authors, many have taken an interest in people who underwent a medical gender transition and chose to return to their former identity.
How someone feels about their personal appearance or attractiveness can significantly affect their level of life satisfaction, according to a new study out of York University which looked at a broad range of factors and their contribution to happiness.
Equity studies Professor Yvonne Su says that research shows social divisions and inequalities return, often stronger, after the immediate danger of a disaster passes, weighing in on how the efforts to provide community support have shifted since after the first COVID lockdown.
Retired Professor Wenona Giles who broke borders to bring higher education to refugees in Dadaab, Kenya, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, is recognized with Order of Canada
Education, particularly math education, is not a neutral space for Black students. It continues to be a space where there are fewer expectations of success. That was one of the messages that emerged during the Black History Month panel on education, Black Educators and Black Education, at the Harriet Tubman Institute at York University.
Puberty-blocking drugs are not the only politicized topic in gender-affirming health care. Detransition also tops the list.
Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist, a freedom fighter, a spy, nurse and conductor on the Underground Railroad and although there is a lot written about her movements in the United States, tracing her path in Canada has proven trickier.
From a wartime spread of antimicrobial resistant disease in Ukraine, to superbugs in China causing “white lung” pneumonia in children, 2023 brought no shortage of new evidence that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to be a pressing problem globally, and this pattern shows no sign of abating in 2024 unless a radical shift occurs.
“We are at a turning point where the scientific community has come to take seriously the patient-centric expression ‘nothing about us without us,’” says Prof Ian Stedman.
