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.

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

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

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

BOOKS

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.)

PODCASTS

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 & GROUPS

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).

[Site unavailable on 18/9/23 - worth checking back in the future? People Who Menstruate Stories about menstruation, pregnancy, menopause and more from trans men, non-binary and intersex people. Introduction here.]

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 - PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH

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 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.)