‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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.
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 […]