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Evidence based care for gender distress, Gender related distress in children and adolescents South Africa
FDNHSA POSITION STATEMENT: UK SUPREME COURT RULING AND HELEN ZILLE’S SOCIAL MEDIA STATEMENT
Read more: FDNHSA POSITION STATEMENT: UK SUPREME COURT RULING AND HELEN ZILLE’S SOCIAL MEDIA STATEMENTFDNHSA has noted the statement issued by Helen Zille on 23 April 2025 and posted on Facebook, in which she voiced her support for the recent findings of the UK Supreme Court. Members of FDNHSA are also encouraged by the outcome of the UK Supreme Court, handed down on 16 April 2025. What this extremely…
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Evidence based care for gender distress, Gender related distress in children and adolescents South Africa, South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP), Suicide misinformation
A call for SASOP to review their position on the care of ‘transgender and non-binary youth’
Read more: A call for SASOP to review their position on the care of ‘transgender and non-binary youth’Scientific Letter, SAJP. Published 11 April 2025. The South African Society of Psychiatrists published a position statement in March 2024 entitled: SASOP CAPSIG Position Statement on the Care of Transgender and Non-binary Youth, which took a wholly ‘affirming’ position with regard to medicalised interventions on children and adolescents experiencing gender-related distress. On 18 March 2024…
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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
Read more: Gender Clinic NewsOff-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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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.
Read more: 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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