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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 was published in Spotlight.