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…
I’m a parent at an Elementary-aged Public School in York Region District in Ontario. Sometime at the end of February, without parents’ knowledge, the school invited Canadian Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity to give a workshop on gender diversity and queer identity to students from Grade 5 to 8.…
Many articles have come out recently, in both Canada and the US, about schools hiding minor children’s trans identities from parents, under the guise of the human rights code. Parents also continue to be concerned that teachers are instructing their children that gender identity is a replacement for the biological…
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…
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…
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…
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