Soon, he began insisting that he was a girl. His mother remembers him asking when the good fairy would come and turn his penis into a vagina. His “gender dysphoria,” as the medical world calls an emotional alienation from one’s sexed body, continued to trouble him until his parents decided to let him adopt a new name and pronoun, wear girl’s clothes, and present himself as a girl, a process known as social transition. The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity. After all, she was just a kid.

Colenso-Semple and her colleagues don’t pull their punches: they don’t think the claim that strength or trainability varies over the menstrual cycle is supported by the evidence, and they don’t think we should be issuing training advice on that basis. It’s certainly true that hormone levels vary dramatically in women over the course of a menstrual cycle, in contrast to the relatively stable hormone levels in men. Still, studies on cycle-based training have generally stuck with a simple breakdown: train hard during the follicular phase, then back off during the luteal phase.

A new study has found that LGBTQ+ youth in the US are spending significantly more time on their mobile phones than straight young people. Jason Nagata MD, the study’s author and assistant professor of paediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, explained that LGBTQ+ kids could be using their phones at higher levels due to “exclusion” from school activities by their peers.

The study says they spend around 10.4 hours on their screens each day. That’s a whopping four hours more than straight kids. “Lesbian, gay, and bisexual adolescents are more likely to experience school-based bullying and exclusion from peer groups due to their sexual orientation, leading them to spend less time in traditional school activities and more time on screens,” says Nagata in a press statement.

If the user wants the avatar to walk, the avatar will. Four theories explain how we may learn from avatars. Avatar factors that promote positive outcomes include similarity to the user, normal body size, ideal avatars, the ability to customize an avatar, avatar transformations, and avatar behaviors. Fox, J.; Bailenson, J. N. Virtual Self-Modeling: The Effects of Vicarious Reinforcement and Identification on Exercise Behaviors.

The research showed that both humans and rhesus monkeys follow the actions of their counterpart and include them in their decision. Humans coordinate in a dynamic process and achieve a "fair" balance over time: "today" you get to choose, next week it's my turn. In contrast, rhesus monkeys coordinate statically, which often means that one of the two players loses out over time. Two monkeys trained to play the game with a human confederate showed the ability to coordinate their decision dynamically rather than statically, that is, to observe the human partner and to switch between options.

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The experiment of using puberty blockers to perform medical sex changes on children “escaped the lab” while still in its innovative phase, and spread across the globe before there was any proof that it was either safe or beneficial, according to a team of experts. According to the authors of the paper, runaway diffusion is exactly what happened in pediatric gender medicine.