The Cass Review Final Report was released on April 10, 2024. It can signficantly change how we approach children and young people with gender-related distress in Canada, if we let it. Under the stewardship of Dr Hilary Cass, the Cass Review undertook a sweeping investigation of how children and young people…
Re: Response to a Letter From the Canadian Pediatric Society and Alberta Medical Association to the Premier of Alberta The Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) and the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) recently sent a letter to the Premier of Alberta expressing their opposition to her proposed policy changes to pediatric gender medicine…
My daughter is now 21 years old, and a detransitioner. Here is our story. D suffered from anxiety from a young age, ADHD inattentive-type first diagnosed in Grade 2, generalized and social anxiety that got progressively worse through elementary school. By middle school, she lacked the executive functioning skills to…
Update: May 5, 2021 The U-turn is official. Sweden has officially ended the practice of prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors under age 18. They have recognized the experimental nature of treating minors with puberty blockers and hormones and have established new protocols that deviate significantly from WPATH…
Update 2023: This child has since desisted from her “trans” identity and is a high-functioning young woman with her body intact and has a loving and supportive relationship with her parents. The following account documents the experience of a family who attended a one-hour appointment at SickKids Gender Clinic in…
Gender clinics across Canada are participating in the largest international study of youth referred for hormones and puberty blockers. The Canadian study is funded with a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The study will be collecting data over a 2 year period on approximately 300 Canadian…
More and more detransitioners are coming forward with their stories in recent months, forming groups and starting advocacy campaigns. On Twitter, many of them have adopted the salamander as their mascot – a hopeful declaration of resilience and regrowth that symbolizes what they may have lost in the process of…
by Dr. Edward Les Dr. Edward Les is a pediatrician in Calgary who writes on politics, social issues, and other matters. He can be followed on his personal blog at http://dredles.com and at http://medium.com/@dredles. His views are his own. Physicians’ failure to speak out against trans-radical falsehoods amounts to a…
When medical guideline recommendations are made without evidence, they are regarded as clinical consensus statements. A review of the WPATH SOC raises important facts about how to reconcile conflicting guidelines, and conflict of interests among guideline development group members and funders.
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