Category Health & Social Care

NHS England – Interim CAYPGI & Public Consultation

INTERIM SERVICE SPECIFICATION Interim Specialist Service for Children and Young People with Gender Incongruence The Service will provide care to children and young people, and their families, who express gender incongruence and who are likely to benefit from clinical support. The Service will adopt a holistic, multi-disciplinary integrated approach to assessing and responding to an individual’s needs in view of the range of co-presentations that may typically present in this patient cohort, and the range of complexities relating to gender identity development. The most appropriate clinical pathway in the best interests of the child or young person will be determined through an integrated multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach, fully involving the child or young person and their family................

Apotemnophilia, Paraphilia or Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), Dysphoria Resolved by Self-Amputation (GB 1992): Case-History 12-Year Follow-Up (2009) with Medical Ethical Issues— to 2023

READ ON MEDIUM HERE OR BELOW: Body integrity dysphoria (BID, also referred to as body integrity identity disorder, amputee identity disorder and xenomelia, formerly called apotemnophilia) REFERENCES: Mia @_CryMiaRiver Ottawa, Ontario & Jen @JenKTeach England, UK

The UK Government has rejected gender neutral toilets in public buildings

The UK Government has announced its plan to place separate male and female toilets in all new public buildings – forgoing gender neutral toilets in an alleged effort to protect women As of 4 July 2022, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities has developed an approach to have all new public buildings be fitted with toilets which are single-sex only, indicating gender neutral toilets are not safe for women and girls.

Autism & Suicidality

Research exploring the unique challenges autistic adults face in relation to mental health problems, self-injury, and thoughts about ending life. What are the top 10 priorities for future suicide research in autistic people? 1 What barriers do autistic people experience when seeking help, which may put them at greater risk of suicide? 2 What are the risk and protective factors for suicide in autism across the lifespan? 3 To what extent are autistic people not believed about the severity of their distress? 4 How can we further understand suicide where mental health is not a factor across the lifespan? 5 How can we best identify and assess suicidal thoughts and suicidal behaviours in autistic people, in research and clinical practice? 6 How should interventions be adapted for autistic people and individual presentations? 7 What is the experience of suicidal thoughts and behaviours in autistic people? Is this experience different to the general population? 8 How do autistic people seek help when they are in a crisis? 9 How well do existing models of understanding suicide apply to autistic people? 10 What is the impact of poor sleep on suicide risk in autistic people, and how can this be measured?

Altering rat sexual behavior to teach hormonal regulation of brain imprinting

Abstract In this teaching laboratory, students design and perform an experiment to determine estrogen’s role in imprinting the brain of neonatal rats to express either male or female sexual behavior. A discussion question is provided before the laboratory exercise in which each student is asked to search the literature and provide written answers to questions and to formulate an experiment to test the role of estrogen in imprinting the mating behavior of male and female rats. Students discuss their answers to the questions in laboratory with the instructor and design an experiment to test their hypothesis........

Eugen Steinach (1861–1944) – The Embryo Project Encyclopedia

Eugen Steinach (1861–1944) By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy, Federica Turriziani Colonna Published: 2017-02-16 Keywords: Testes, sex hormones, Estrogen Eugen Steinach researched sex hormones and their effects on mammals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe. He experimented on rats by removing their testicles and implanting them elsewhere in their bodies, and he found that the testes interstitial cells produce male sex hormones. He developed the Steinach Rejuvenation Procedure, which he claimed could rejuvenate men by increasing their production of sex hormones. Steinach’s work on female sex hormones and on ovarian extracts led to the development of the first standardized injectable estrogen. Steinach's research on reproductive hormones helped researchers explain the roles of sex hormones and develop hormone drugs.