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…
In solidarity with parents around the world, we repost Genspect’s open letter in response to WPATH SOC v8 below. It’s not clear which standards of care are being used in Canada. CPATH (the Canadian Professional Association of Transgender Health) no longer seems to be affiliated with WPATH. Several Canadian trans…
Brief to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on Bill 17 – Gender Affirming Health Care Advisory Committee Act Canadian Gender Report November 8, 2021 Introduction Canadian Gender Report has five concerns about the current bill: The committee’s name “Gender Affirming” implies a bias towards a particular model of gender…
For the past year, Chris Elston, aka @BillboardChris, has been taking to the streets of Canada to protest gender ideology in schools and the increasingly discredited practice of medically transitioning children. This week, when he protested across the street from several public schools in Ottawa, he was assaulted and met…
A review of detransitioner experiences has just been published with many quotes and insights from the interviewee’s. Faye Gear conducted interviews with 5 Canadian and American detransitioners as part of a thematic review of detransitioner experiences supervised at the University of Western Ontario. Her review has been published at: https://psyarxiv.com/683p7/…
A Canadian detransitioner submitted this comment to our Election 2021 page on the evening of the Canadian federal election this week. We made sure she was ok and put her in touch with some supportive people before publishing her comment here: Thank you for existing. I am a middle-aged transer,…
Bill C-6 interferes with healthcare decision making as the UK and Sweden introduce safeguarding against premature gender transitioning Ottawa, ON, Tuesday, June 22, 2021 — Coercive and degrading forms of therapy which have the explicit intention of changing a person’s sexual orientation have no place in Canada. Unfortunately, Bill C-6…
As countries around the world question the exponential increase in children and young people seeking medical gender transition we thought we’d try to pull together whatever data we could find on the trend in Canada. The news from Sweden this month that their premiere gender clinics for children and young…
Transitioners and detransitioners have admitted that they’ve been coached by therapists in terms of what to say in order to access hormone therapy. But are therapists influencing children and young people in that direction? Consider the following exchange between a 12 year old girl and her therapist by text message:…
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