We had a wonderful couple of days at the Gender Identity Skills Training event in Kilkenny on 5 & 6 March. I was delighted to connect with the 35 other healthcare professionals, experts by experience and community group representatives in attendance.

As a clinical psychologist specialising in transgender healthcare, I have become increasingly alarmed by the systematic attempts to use politics to restrict access to essential medical care for transgender individuals. 

In a troubling move, the Trump administration recently announced plans to remove terms like “gender,” “assigned at birth,” and “queer” from the federal lexicon. Under the guise of a supposed return to traditional values, this policy effectively erases the identities of millions of people who don’t fit within the stereotypical boxes of outdated, binary gender norms.