Mental health assessments have been called “stigmatizing”, “gatekeeping” and “barriers to care” by CPATH and other LGBTQ+ lobby groups. They are thus being systematically phased out of the field of gender medicine to be replaced by “affirmation,” and access to medical transition based on a client’s self-directed gender goals, even…
Case Dismissed The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) did not find that my daughter’s case vs OCDSB met the criteria for “direct discrimination” and their reasoning was that our daughter was not denied access to education services. They also found our argument that the repeated pattern of instruction in…
In a surprisingly direct editorial on Saturday, the National Post called for Canada to ban gender surgeries for minors and “take inspiration” from the recent reforms in Finland, Sweden and the UK to ensure Canadian gender questioning children receive appropriate and multi-disciplinary care. This significant statement by one of Canada’s…
A Joint Briefing Submitted on behalf of: Gender Dysphoria Alliance, LGB Alliance Canada, Vancouver Lesbian Collective, Genspect and Canadian Gender Report Now a matter of public record and published on the Our Commons website. The Situation Over the last ten years there has been a massive increase in the numbers…
By Pascale Bourgeois Pascale is a mother of two children, a former pre-school, elementary and high school teacher and is currently completing her Doctorate in Philosophy of Education. Introduction If there is a consensus in the essentially contested[1] field of education, it’s that education should lead to freedom. No one…
An update on my daughter’s hearing at the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal My daughter’s human rights case was finally heard earlier this spring. We are waiting for the decision and expect it sometime this summer. What happened is still a raw and painful topic for us. Our daughter – now…
Written by an Ontario parent The Ontario election is in full swing, with voting day on June 2, 2022, and I have been asking every campaigner who calls or knocks the same two questions: What is a woman? What do you feel are the best treatments for gender-questioning children? Two…
The following post is republished with permission from @elizamondegreen You can find Eliza on Twitter and read her Substack here. Eliza is a grad student with a research interest in gender identity and social media influence. New Factsheet Summarizes Key Talking Points The Canada Research Chair on Transgender Children and…
Sweden prioritizes psychological support for gender diverse youth The long anticipated new guidance from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (NBHW) was released last week. In it, the NBHW concluded that the evidence base for medical interventions for gender diverse youth is of low quality, and that hormonal…
The Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine Anyone who has been following the debates on medical gender transition of young people will have heard of the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine. Since 2019 this dedicated group of professionals has been challenging the shoddy science used to support the affirmative model of…
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