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  • FDNHSA POSITION STATEMENT: UK SUPREME COURT RULING AND HELEN ZILLE’S SOCIAL MEDIA STATEMENT

    FDNHSA 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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    April 25, 2025
  • 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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    April 11, 2025
  • Yale’s “Integrity Project” is Spreading Misinformation about The Cass Review and Youth Gender Medicine. Article 5.

    For our fifth article about the problems with the Yale Integrity Project, we share Part 3/3 of the critique by Jesse Singal. Republished here in full with the permission of the author. Jesse Singal brings us up to date on significant events and publications since he published his second piece in this series. Then he…

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    January 17, 2025
  • ‘Gender affirming healthcare’ is not what the family physician needs to know

    First Do No Harm Southern Africa is delighted that our article ‘Gender affirming healthcare’ is not what the family physician needs to know, submitted in October 2024, has been published in the South African Family Practice journal, and is available to read at the link above, or here, below. The piece began as a 3,000…

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    January 14, 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yale’s “Integrity Project” is Spreading Misinformation about The Cass Review and Youth Gender Medicine. Article 4.

    For our fourth article about the problems with the Yale Integrity Project, we share Part 2/3 of the critique by Jesse Singal. Republished here in full with the permission of the author. First Singal provides us with a primer on evidence based medicine. Then he dives into a deep and detailed analysis of the misunderstandings…

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    September 1, 2024
  • 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
  • Examining the Cass Review: Impacts on gender dysphoria treatment in South Africa

    “Examining the Cass Review: Impacts on gender dysphoria treatment in South Africa.” This article was published by FDNHSA in the Mail & Guardian on 21 July 2024. It was a follow up to our 17 May 2024 article, “The Cass Review provides guidance on gender-affirming care: SA’s medical community is now at a crossroads” which…

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    August 17, 2024
  • There are problems with the Yale Integrity Project’s response to the Cass review. Article 2.

    The Yale Integrity Project (YIP) report was released in July 2024 by the Yale Law School in response to the Cass review which described “gender affirming care” as based on “wholly inadequate evidence”: “An Evidence-Based Critique of “The Cass Review” on Gender-affirming Care for Adolescent Gender Dysphoria.” The YIP report has multiple problems and this…

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    August 8, 2024
  • There is a lack of integrity in the Yale Integrity Project’s response to the Cass review. Article 1.

    The Yale Integrity Project (YIP) report was released by the Yale Law School in response to the Cass Review in July 2024: “An Evidence-Based Critique of “The Cass Review” on Gender-affirming Care for Adolescent Gender Dysphoria”. This critique has multiple problems.  We will publish a series of articles to explain them, rather than trying to…

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    July 26, 2024
  • Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: Suicide Rates

    Compared to the rest of their peers, children with gender dysphoria are reported to have a significantly increased risk of suicide. However, the risk of suicide is also dramatically increased in children diagnosed with depression, autism and eating disorders and other conditions that commonly present in children with gender dysphoria.1,2,3,4 This raises the question whether…

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    July 15, 2024
  • The Cass Review provides guidance on gender-affirming care: SA’s medical community is now at a crossroads

    On 10 April 2024, the UK’s NHS released the Cass Review, or the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People, which followed a four year investigation of the evidence on social transition and medicalisation of gender distressed children and youth. On 17 May 2024 Spotlight, a public health news publication in…

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    June 19, 2024

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