UK Says NO to Routine Use of Puberty Blockers Europe continues to change course and adopt a cautious stance towards medicalizing gender non-conforming youth. The UK’s National Health Service announced the public consultation phase for their new policy on the treatment options for children with gender incongruence. They issued this summary…
Contributed by a Canadian lawyer currently making time for her 2 children. On June 8, 2023, the education minister for New Brunswick announced changes to a controversial policy that required teachers and staff to use a child’s preferred pronouns and preferred name, without parental consent. Policy 713 had come into…
An article in Canada’s National Post last week explored how children can socially transition their gender at school without the knowledge of their parents. The article received more than 1000 comments, most of them highly critical of the policy to keep a child’s gender change a secret from parents. This…
Gender Exploratory Therapy Association Releases First Clinical Guide Sweden, Finland and now the UK have grappled with the difficult question of how best to provide healthcare services to gender-questioning children and young people. All three of these national healthcare systems have decided to prioritize psychotherapy services for youth, standardize the…
RE: Bill 42 – Gender Affirming Health Care Advisory Committee Act, 2022 We are writing to you as a group of concerned Ontario parents about Bill 42, the Gender Affirming Health Care Advisory Committee Act. We’re concerned that this Bill is poorly understood in terms of its implications for children…
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…
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…
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