March 12, 2021 the inaugural 'Detransition Awareness Day', provided an opportunity to raise awareness of detransition and of the stories of detransitioners. While Keira Bell is perhaps the most famous of the detransitioners. Many others have found it necessary to unite and to campaign for better treatment, both by society and by the medical profession. … Continue reading Detransition Awareness Day
Conversion Therapy Petition
On Monday 8th March a 'Westminster Hall Debate' was had in the United Kingdom parliament in response to a petition calling for a ban on LGBT Conversion Therapy. The full debate in Parliament is available on Parliament TV The petition calls for the Government to make running conversion therapy for LGBT people a criminal offence. This … Continue reading Conversion Therapy Petition
Newsletter: February 2021
February 2021 got off to a good start with Our Duty founder Keith Jordan getting a wider audience for concerns around the United Kingdom's approach to medical treatment in respected magazine The Critic: https://thecritic.co.uk/what-the-media-missed-about-the-care-quality-commissions-tavistock-report/ The Irish College of GPs reverses its stance on puberty blockers, and this was reported in The Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/irish-college-of-gps-reverses-stance-on-puberty-blockers-nh7kj6xbm An interesting … Continue reading Newsletter: February 2021
Dutch call for More Research
More research is urgently needed into transgender care for young people: 'Where does the large flow of children come from?' Thomas Steensma, Dutch researcher into gender treatments and one of the co-authers of the so-called 'Dutch Protocol' has expressed concerns that existing research is an insufficient basis upon which current pathways used to treat adolescents … Continue reading Dutch call for More Research
Billboards in USA
In an effort to raise awareness about the medical treatment of children and teenagers with gender dysphoria, a group of parents commissioned a billboard in Los Angeles. It went up in October 2020 and received minimal attention. A second billboard was commissioned in November in close proximity to Kaiser Permanente Hospital where there is a … Continue reading Billboards in USA
Research Updates – Summer 2020
In a short thread on Twitter, renowned Harry Potter author JK Rowling neatly summarised these new papers: NHS identity clinics have been functioning as if acting outside the ordinary requirement of good medical and psychiatric practice.Some may dismiss this paper by experienced psychoanalyst Marcus Evans, but they do so at their own peril.Freedom to ThinkIt … Continue reading Research Updates – Summer 2020
Canada bullies dutiful parent
This is possibly the most shocking story concerning the gender transition of a young person that we know of. Robert Hoogland is facing a jail sentence for the "crime" of trying to protect his daughter from being transitioned by the state. The Canadian court in British Columbia has placed reporting restrictions on this case, forcing … Continue reading Canada bullies dutiful parent
Meeting the Tavistock
Parents with children affected by gender incongruence have an opportunity to have their voices heard at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. The Tavistock is home to both GIDS (The Gender Identity Development Service - the service for children under 18) and GIC (The Gender Identity Clinic - the service for adults). Today, 11th … Continue reading Meeting the Tavistock
Australia to investigate autism link
Health ministers in charge of children’s hospital transgender clinics across Australia should take responsibility for investigating the overrepresentation of teenage patients with autism, according to federal Health Minister Greg Hunt. Mr Hunt’s intervention follows reports in The Australian that a leading authority on Asperger’s syndrome, Tony Attwood, wants an inquiry into the autism trend, and … Continue reading Australia to investigate autism link
Autism link to Trans Identities
This piece by Bernard Lane in The Australian is a thorough report on how autistic children and adolescents can be misdiagnosed as being transgender. https://twitter.com/Bernard_Lane/status/1269026208831938560 Archive Link: https://archive.ph/LwFCj