Skip to content

Anna Miroshnychenko vs. transgender people

Anna Miroshnychenko is a Canadian researcher and anti-transgender activist. Miroshnychenko is affiliated with anti-trans hate group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM).

Background

Anna Miroshnychenko attended McMaster University, earning a bachelor’s degree in 2018, a master’s degree in 2020, and doctorate in 2025.

Miroshnychenko was a research student at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Kids in 2016 and 2017. Miroshnychenko then worked at Cytel as a research consultant in 2020 and 2021, then at OrthoEvidence in 2021. From December 2023 to May 2024, Miroshnychenko was a consultant at Amaris Consulting.

Miroshnychenko has engaged in reaching and research at McMaster University frin 2017.

Anti-trans activism

Miroshnychenko was a research consultant at SEGM from May 2021 to February 2022. Miroshnychenko’s role was “appraising peer-reviewed journal articles published in the field of gender medicine.” From 2020 to 2024, Miroshnychenko’s “led a team to execute evidence syntheses, such as systematic reviews and (network) meta-analyses, to inform clinical practice guidelines in dentistry and gender medicine.”

Mastectomy paper (2025)

Miroshnychenko is lead author of an evidence review funded by SEGM. According to PROSPERO:

Collaborators

Funding: This systematic review is part of a large research project funded through a research agreement between the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine (SEGM), the sponsor, and McMaster University. None of the team members received financial compensation directly from SEGM to conduct this work.

Coverage in anti-trans press

Brown, Elizabeth Nolan (January 24, 2025). Study Finds Almost No Good Evidence on Gender Dysphoria Drugs for Young People. Reason https://reason.com/2025/01/24/study-finds-almost-no-good-evidence-on-gender-dysphoria-drugs-for-young-people/

Selected publications by Miroshnychenko

Miroshnychenko, A., Roldan, Y., Ibrahim, S., Kulatunga-Moruzi, C., Montante, S., Couban, R., Guyatt, G. & Brignardello-Petersen, R. (2025). Puberty blockers for gender dysphoria in youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 110(6), 429–436. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-327909 full text https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/adc3279091.pdf

Miroshnychenko, A., Roldan, Y. M., Ibrahim, S., Kulatunga-Moruzi, C., Dahlin, K., Montante, S., Couban, R., Guyatt, G., & Brignardello-Petersen, R. (2024). Mastectomy for Individuals with Gender Dysphoria Younger Than 26 Years: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 155(6), 915–923. https://doi.org/10.1097/prs.0000000000011734

Miroshnychenko, A., Ibrahim, S., Roldan, Y., Kulatunga-Moruzi, C., Montante, S., Couban, R., Guyatt, G., & Brignardello-Petersen, R. (2025). Gender affirming hormone therapy for individuals with gender dysphoria aged less than 26 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 110(6), 437–445. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-327921 full text https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/adc327921.pdf

Miroshnychenko, A. (2025). [doctoral dissertation] Application of standard, intermediate, and advanced exidence synthesis methods to inform decision makeing about opioid use and gender-affirming care. McMaster University https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/32019/2/Miroshnychenko_Anna_PhD_Thesis_2025_15_July_Final%203.pdf

Resources

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

ResearchGate (researchgate.net)