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Cass Review South Africa, Evidence based care for gender distress, Gender related distress in children and adolescents South Africa

Gender Clinic News

Off-label drug alert South Africa’s health professions regulator issues a warning to doctors medicating minors for gender distress This is a copy of an article from Gender Clinic News, an independent newsletter with global coverage of the debate about medicalised gender change among young people. Republished with the kind permission of the author, Bernard Lane.…
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November 23, 2024
Cass Review South Africa, Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Gender Affirming Healthcare Guideline, Yale “Integrity”Project

Gender medicine and the Cass Review: why medicine and the law make poor bedfellows

Review of the sources underpinning criticisms and misrepresentations of the Cass Review – particularly McNamara et al of “The ‘Integrity’ Project” web page. In Gender medicine and the Cass Review: why medicine and the law make poor bedfellows, authors Cheung et al. painstakingly review the two sources underpinning the original BMA council motion to ‘publically…
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October 15, 2024
Cass Review South Africa, Evidence based care for gender distress, Gender related distress in children and adolescents South Africa, Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Gender Affirming Healthcare Guideline

The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society (SAHCS) Position Statement on the provision of care for adolescents with gender incongruence has serious shortcomings.

On 26 August 2024 the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society (SAHCS) published a position statement on the provision of care for adolescents with gender incongruence. The purpose of this statement appears to be to defend their Gender Affirming Healthcare Guideline (GAHG) which was published in 2021. The background to this development is the engagement between First…
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September 14, 2024
Cass Review South Africa, Yale “Integrity”Project

Yale’s “Integrity Project”is Spreading Misinformation about The Cass Review and Youth Gender Medicine. Article 3.

For our third article about the problems with the Yale Integrity Project, we share this critique by Jesse Singal. Republished here in full with the permission of the author. He makes similar points to those highlighted by FDNHSA about the conflict of interest of the authors and also provides important commentary about the Yale “Integrity”…
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August 20, 2024