The Cass Review is an extremely credible and extensive look into the UK’s gender services for children and young people. Canada and the UK both began to adopt the “gender affirming” model of care in the past decade. The Cass Review exposed an incredible lack of evidence supporting the gender…
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…
The debate over the accessibility of medical interventions for minor children who identify as “trans” continues to heat up in Canada. Pierre Poilievre was asked a very direct question yesterday in a media scrum “You’re against puberty blockers for children under 18?” “Yes” was his answer. He said adults should…
The following analysis was contributed by a Canadian physician What is Top Surgery? Since 2015, there has been an explosion in the number of teenagers and young adults presenting with gender dysphoria in Canada and the rest of the Western world. For the first time, the majority of those presenting…
The first lawsuit by a gender detransitioner in Canada has been filed in Ontario. Michelle Z says of her claim “Through this action. I am not only seeking justice for myself, but also hoping to raise awareness about the recklessness of gender-affirming health care.” Gender affirmation care undertaken without assessment…
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…
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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