Exciting news: we are recruiting for our new study! 🥳 For this interview study, we are looking for people who would like to share their experiences with gender-affirming hormones. Interested in participating, or want to learn more? Let us know via [email protected]

Our Postdoc researcher Dr. Margot Morssinkhof published a new paper on depressive symptoms in those starting gender-affirming hormones! See her thread to read more about the paper 👇, and stay tuned to keep updated on our future work on mood changes and gender-affirming hormones🏳️‍⚧️!

The team, the process and the research values 💡Yesterday, we had an away day to work together and brainstorm important topics, including the values that we hold as a team. This is a really worthwhile process, especially when it results in baked goods and better research!

Interested to be involved in a half day workshop aimed at better understanding social relationships during gender affirming hormone therapy? Get involved by sending an email to [email protected] and to find out more ✉

The Affirm Relationships website is now live🥳 Want to learn more about the project, or get in involved? Check it out at affirmrelationships.com

New paper on social health by the PI of the Affirm Project now out at Health Psychology Review! 🎉Pushing the definition of health to include ''adequate quantity and quality of relationships in a particular context to meet an individual’s need for meaningful human connection'' 🎉

Affirm Post doc Dr. Margot Morssinkhof is now Dr Margot Morssinkhof🥳 On friday she impressively defended her Phd thesis, titled: Waves of Change: Sex Hormones, Depression and Sleep — Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (vu.nl)

Interested in how trans specific healthcare differs across Europe? You can read more about this in our newly published paper, the results of which have also been summarised in an infographic: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

NEW PREPRINT! 🥳 I’m very excited about our new preprint, in which we report on changes in affect variability in transgender people starting gender-affirming hormones: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… A short thread on our study setup and results below 🧵: