Resources

Welcome to the resources page. I’m adding links here as I find them. As you can see, it’s getting longer and longer! At some point I will re-categorize this list so you can find things more easily.

If you’re a practitioner, trainer, researcher, or anyone else who is doing relevant work, or you know someone who is, please get in touch.

LIST UPDATED 15th December 2024.

General Menopause
Inclusive Menopause
Queer Menopause in the media
Related health links and organisations

A note on finding peer-reviewed research

If you’re not affiliated with a university, it can be hard to immediately access full texts of some research. This long and helpful article has some good tips.

GENERAL MENOPAUSE

Please note: much current mainstream menopause information is very gender binaried and focused on cisgender heterosexual women. This does not make it bad or not worth checking out, but some of the content may not be relevant (or actively alienating) to someone who is queer, non-binary or trans. This can also be the case with many social media discussion groups.

In this first section I’m putting links to places where you can find general menopause-related medical/health information. I cannot guarantee that some of it won’t be jarring to you in some way, but you may also find something useful.

British Menopause Society The BMS educates, informs and guides healthcare professionals on menopause and all aspects of post reproductive health. Their patient arm is Women’s Health Concern.

Menopause Support Busy website with lots of info, run by prolific media campaigner Diane Danzebrink. Also has a high traffic Facebook page, the Menopause Support Network.

NICE Guidelines on Menopause If your GP is resistant to engaging with you about menopause, you are advised to read these and take them along with you to your next appointment.

GMC (General Medical Council) Ethical Guidance for Doctors Published in November 2020, this guidance lays out best practice for working with patients. If you are having trouble discussing menopause and potential treatments with a medical practitioner, this may be helpful.

GENERAL MENOPAUSE - PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH

Perimenopause: from research to practice. Santoro, N. (2016). Journal of Women’s Health, 25, 332–339. doi:10.1089/jwh.2015.5556

Perimenopause and depression: strength of association, causal mechanisms and treatment recommendations. Gyllstrom, M.E., Schreiner, P.J., & Harlow, B.L. (2007). Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology 21(2), 275-292. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2006.11.002

Special Issue on biopsychosocial perspectives on the menopause. Hunter, M.S. & Edozien, L.C. (2017). Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology 38(3), 159-160. DOI: 10.1080/0167482X.2017.1358135

Symptoms of menopause – global prevalence, physiology and implications. Monteleone, P., Mascagni, G., Giannini, A., Genazzani, A.R., and Simoncini, T. (2018). Nature Reviews – Endocrinology (14), 199-215. DOI:10.1038/nrendo.2017.180

The Testosterone prescribing practice of BMS menopause specialists. Scott A., Holloway D., Rymer J., Bruce D. (2021) Post Reprod Health. DOI: 10.1177/2053369120985743.

INCLUSIVE MENOPAUSE

‘Inclusive’ in this list means either LGBTQIA+ inclusive, and/or focusing on another group that may be insufficiently represented in mainstream discussion.

ARTICLES

Ask the Expert: What to Know About Menopause When You’re Trans or Nonbinary - Healthline (US focus).

Queer and Going Through Menopause? How to Advocate for Yourself - Adulted (US focus).

How do hormonal changes affect the trans and non-binary community? - Rachel Reese of Global Butterflies.

Queering Menopause on Medium - channel run by Sarah TC. Send your stories over!

Women in Menopause Are Getting Short Shrift - Rachel E Gross in The Atlantic writes about why we need joined up thinking around menopause care and gender transition.

My Queer Menopause – “Becoming knowledgeable and powerful and furious” - by Helen Juffs on Linked In. This post started a really important conversation.

‘I was grieving on a very biological level’: how three women got through menopause (Guardian) - Helen Juffs is interviewed here, as well as Anita Powell (see the Black Menopause and Beyond podcast below.

How to Find Gender-Affirming Menopause Care: What You Can Do - Healthline (US focus).

LGBTQIA+ Menopause - Room for Improvement - by me in The Lancet.

Queer Menopause: working with the LGBTQIA+ menopausal client - my chapter in Erotically Queer - A Pink Therapy Guide for Practitioners (2023)

Evidence to UK Parliament’s Women & Equalities Committee Consultation on LGBTQ+ Menopause in the workplace - by me. Search for ‘Glyde’ or ‘MEW0087’.

BOOKS

Bloody Hell! Adventures in Menopause from Around the World [coming March 2025] - by feminist powerhouse Mona Eltahawy. ‘Featuring 17 essays from people all around the world, Bloody Hell! is a collection of adventures in menopause from across the personal and political spectrum that aims to light a fire of shamelessness and break the boundaries surrounding this ‘taboo’ topic.’ [I am delighted to be in this book.]

Genderqueer Menopause [coming in 2025] - by LaSara Firefox Allen. [Advance review from me- it’s great!]

Being the Change: Shaping Your Creative Postmenopause [coming in 2027] - by Stella Duffy. Dr Duffy is a prolific author who retrained as an existential therapist. As part of her professional doctorate she researched post-menopausal experience.

Black and Menopausal Black women speak about menopause - a great range of personal experiences and very much needed. Editors: Yansie Rolston & Yvonne Christie.

What Fresh Hell Is This? Perimenopause, menopause, other indignities, and you - a guide Inclusive menopause guide written by all-round excellent sex educator and Scarleteen founder Heather Corinna! (UK edition available here, with foreword by me.)

DOCUMENTARIES

Queer and Menopausal (2024) - Queer and trans menopause with a focus on POC experience. Produced by Dr Yansie Rolston of Efficacy_EVA and You and Me_nopause. Participants include @sandrabrownspringer (she/her), Reema Huzair (she/her), @cairo_leon (he/him) and Raga D’Silva (@totallyoutnow) (she/her).

Rainbow Menopause (2024) - LGBTQ people talk about their menopause experiences. Written and directed by Ceri Harris and produced by Holly Russell-Allison. Made with the support of Wales-based Iris Prize, a film and media organisation devoted to promoting LGBTQ+ stories.

[I am extra happy that these two films have been made! I very much recommend both of them. If you would like to organise a viewing, please contact the creators.]

EVENTS

Equity In Menopause Festival (October 2024, London) - All-day event of seminars, workshops and creativity with a focus on POC experience. Organised by Dr Yansie Rolston and her team from Efficacy_EVA and You and Me_nopause and in collaboration with Black Female Doctors UK. A very full day with a powerful mix of highly qualified eminent speakers and grassroots connection. [And there was a whole afternoon of back to back Queer Menopause workshops! I really hope they do it again next year.]

Marginalised and Menopausal (May 2024, Birmingham) - all day conference put on by Cysters, ‘a grassroots, community-led charity committed to enhancing the health, education, and well-being of individuals experiencing menstrual, maternal and mental health challenges, particularly those from marginalized or culturally diverse backgrounds.’ [I’m sorry I didn’t make it to this, but I hope they do more.']

PODCASTS/INTERVIEWS

Tate Smith is a young trans man who does a lot of trans awareness work and who has done a number of interviews about trans male menopause, eg this one with Hatty McCafferty.

The Genderqueer Menopause Coach podcast - hosted by LaSara Firefox Allen, who is the world’s first genderqueer menopause coach. (They also have a genderqueer menopause book out in Spring 2025, which is very exciting!)

Speaking of Health - by Women’s Health Tasmania. Recently started. The first season is about healthcare workers helping their trans and non-binary patients’ have better experiences. [NB I have not listened to this yet. However, I have been curious about it since reading this article that referenced trans male menopause earlier this year.]

Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause Gender inclusive podcast and guide presented by leader, facilitator and healer Omisade Burney-Scott.

Black Menopause and Beyond Podcast with Anita Powell

Menopause Whilst Black Podcasts about Black British women’s experiences of menopause, hosted by Karen Arthur (intro here).

SITES & SUPPORT GROUPS

Queerpause - Scotland based LGBT menopause online support group.

All-Gender Peri/Menopause page Facebook group run by Heather Corinna.

Black Women in Menopause Events, support and information, created by Nina Kuypers (founder of Black Health and Beyond).

Guide to Menopause for Women Living with HIV Guide created by Sophia Forum.

My Premature Menopause Hayley Cockman’s story of experiencing menopause at 14.

VIDEOS

Menopause - Agent of Queerness? Video of my presentation at the AltSex NYC conference in May 2021. (28:51.)

Queer Menopause - where Gender, Sexuality and Age Collide Video of my talk at the Pink Therapy annual conference 2020 on Queer Desire. (43:08).

Menopause - Crossing the gender divide from a trans non binary experience Facebook video (55:19) of a discussion group hosted by Sophia Forum, the advocacy organisation for women living with HIV.

FTM: menopause yay! YouTuber TooHawkward talks about hot flushes. (6:26).

INCLUSIVE MENOPAUSE - RESEARCH

Experiences of Menopause among non-binary and trans people Toze, M., Westwood, S. (2024). International Journal of Transgender Health. DOI:10.1080/26895269.2024.2389924 [I have not accessed this yet, but hoped it might be useful.]

Forthcoming - Rebecca Simmons (@LgbtqMenoProj on Twitter) is doing a PhD at Leeds University about queer experiences of menopause which should be completed in 2025.

Grounding in Groundlessness Being the Change An existential phenomenological exploration into the embodied experience of postmenopause - by Dr Stella Duffy. ‘…this qualitative study explores the embodied experience of postmenopause among diverse UK-based participants aged 55-69.’ If you aren’t registered with ResearchGate, here is an open source link.

How can therapists and other healthcare practitioners best support and validate their queer menopausal clients? Glyde, T. (2021) Sexual and Relationship Therapy. DOI: 10.1080/14681994.2021.1881770

You can download my research here. (This article was accepted on 20/1/21 and published on 17/2/21. This is a pdf of the Accepted Manuscript).

Reproductive health care priorities and barriers to effective care for LGBTQ people assigned female at birth: A qualitative study. Wingo, E., Ingraham, N., & Roberts, S.C.M. (2018). Women's Health Issues 28(4), 350–357. DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2018.03.002

Sex in Midlife: Women’s Sexual Experiences in Lesbian and Straight Marriages. Paine, E.A., Umberson, D. & Reczek, C. (2019). Journal of Marriage and Family (81), 7–23. DOI:10.1111/jomf.12508

The ending of menstruation: perspectives and experiences of lesbian and heterosexual women at menopause. Hyde, A., Nee, J., Howlett, E., Butler, M. & Drennan, J. (2011). Journal of Women and Aging 23(2), 160-176. DOI: 10.1080/08952841.2011.561145

Transgender health and the impact of aging and menopause Cheung, A. S., Nolan, B. J., Zwickl, S. (2023). Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Menopause: Invited Papers. https://doi.org/10.1080/13697137.2023.2176217

Transgender women’s experiences and beliefs about hormone therapy through and beyond mid-age: An exploratory UK study. Mohamed, S., and Hunter, M.S. (2019). Int J Transgend 20(1), 98–107. DOI: 10.1080/15532739.2018.1493626. (Professor Myra Hunter (profile here) has done a lot of work around menopause.)

Transitions, subjective age, wellness, and life satisfaction: A comparison between lesbians and heterosexual women in midlife. Degges-White, S., & Myers, S.D. (2008). Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling 1(2), 21-44. DOI: 10.17744/mehc.28.2.eaumlpbm0rxdrldk

‘When my autism broke’: A qualitative study spotlighting autistic voices on menopause. Moseley, R.L., Druce, T., and Turner-Cobb, J.L. (2020). Autism 24(6), 1423–1437. DOI: 10.1177/1362361319901184

QUEER MENOPAUSE IN THE MEDIA

We need to talk about the LGBTQ+ Menopause experience Good Housekeeping Feb 2021.

Still Hot! I am interviewed in this book of interviews with 42 mainly (but not all) cisgender heterosexual people about their experiences of menopause. A number of high profile UK media figures featured. Available in hardback and on Kindle. Published October 2020.

This is the end… of your period DIVA magazine interviewed several practitioners, myself included, about the queer experience of menopause. (December 2019 edition.)

The menopause and me - when you’re gender neutral Actor Bunny Cook talks to Hello! magazine (2019). (They are also interviewed in Still Hot! above.)

Prime time; TV menopause, queerly a case for review. Cooper, R. (2008). SQS–Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran lehti 3 (2) 30–37.

A Menopausal Gentleman. Video of performance by Peggy Shaw of Split Britches. (1998) ‘Peggy Shaw's bluesy, pseudo-stream-of-consciousness lounge act about a butch lesbian going through 'the change'.’ (Cataloging info here.)