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Christy Olezeski, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and director and co-founder of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program, told Yahoo! Life the biggest misconception people have about nonbinary people is that they’re “going through a phase,” which she explains is far from true.

The most compelling articles offer a news hook and a call to action -- and several Yale community members are involved in this important work.

Health matters important to the LGBTQ community over scrutinized and falsely framed as nontypical.

On Aug. 12, professors from the Yale Law School, Yale School of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and University of Texas Southwestern filed a brief as amici curiae in Eknes-Tucker v. Governor, State of Alabama with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

National medical and legal researchers have issued a report condemning Florida health officials’ plan to block Medicaid coverage for gender-dysphoria treatments, saying the move lacks “any persuasive scientific or medical justification.”

As Florida policymakers pursue state-level restrictions on transgender care, legal and medical experts from Yale Law School, the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center and Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern, and University of Alabama at Birmingham have released a new report that identifies and refutes the many unscientific claims behind the effort.

In this commentary piece, Yale faculty and colleagues define gender affirming care and address related scientific misinformation.

Christy Olezeski, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program, is co-author of the op-ed "Denying Trans Youth Gender-affirming Care is an Affront to Science and Medical Ethics" in the Los Angeles Times.