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 […]