The clinical trial investigating the use of puberty blockers in children and adolescents, as heralded in The Cass Review, has reignited debates around the ethical and legal frameworks underpinning such research. Drawing on the principles of medical ethics, associated laws, and insights from critical analyses such as Genspect’s letter to the UK Health Secretary, the … Continue reading The Impossibility of an Ethical Clinical Trial on Puberty Blockers
Pledge for Protection
Our Duty calls upon candidates for the United Kingdom General Election to be held on 4th July 2024 to sign this pledge to protect vulnerable adolescents and uphold women's rights. In summary, committing to implement these five actions will remove the legitimacy afforded to harmful gender identity ideology thereby removing any authority - real or … Continue reading Pledge for Protection
Policy Change Resulting From Cass Review
Parents of a 17 year-old with transgender ideation should consider allowing their child to be referred into NHS child services.Our standing advice for UK members has always been that the NHS and CAMHS are unsafe for children presenting with transgender ideation. However, there are changes resulting from the Cass Review which force us to revise … Continue reading Policy Change Resulting From Cass Review
Statement on Lloyd Russell Moyle’s Conversion Practices Bill
On 1st March 2024 the House of Commons debated the second reading of a Private Member’s Bill promoted by the Labour MP for Brighton, Kemptown, Lloyd Russell Moyle MP. The debate can be watched on parliament.tv Our Duty, is a parent support and advocacy group established in 2018 to protect children from the harms of … Continue reading Statement on Lloyd Russell Moyle’s Conversion Practices Bill
Schools Guidance for England – Draft for Consultation
The UK Government consultation on the draft Guidance for Schools and Colleges: Gender Questioning Children was published on 19th December 2023. The consultation runs until 12th March 2024 We shall be making a submission in response to the consultation in due course, using our Universal Guidance as the benchmark. The Government has published two documents … Continue reading Schools Guidance for England – Draft for Consultation
California Parental Notification Policy for School Boards
Our Duty in conjunction with the Coalition for Parental Rights developed model Parental Notification Policies that can be adopted by school boards. https://ourduty.group/usa/schools-in-usa/california-school-districts/ To see these policies and the supporting materials visit this page.
New NHS Service Specification – The Our Duty Verdict
NHS England has now published, following public consultation, a final interim service specification for specialist gender incongruence services for children and young people. The public consultation on this draft interim service specification ran for 45 days from 20 October to 4 December 2022. It received 5,183 responses in total. Our Duty has previously set out … Continue reading New NHS Service Specification – The Our Duty Verdict
The Cass Review – Our Concerns
Introduction The Cass Review is being conducted as an independent review of gender identity services for children and young people, led by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass. It has been running for two years and published an Interim Report in February 2022. We have previously published responses to the Cass Review Interim Report, and a submission … Continue reading The Cass Review – Our Concerns
Submission to the UPR 2023
Our Duty Canada’s Submission to the UPR 2023 Our Duty Canada (ODC) recently submitted a Stakeholders report to the 2023 United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR occurs every 4.5 years and provides a check-in to see how Canada is measuring up to its commitments pursuant to the United Nations Convention on the Rights … Continue reading Submission to the UPR 2023
Conversion Practices Bill – Concerns
The UK Government has announced that it shall proceed with a ban on 'Conversion Practices' and that this bill shall include transgenderism. This is a great cause for concern. Firstly, we consider our children who have transgender ideation have been 'converted' - however, we doubt that the proposed Bill will be designed to stop all … Continue reading Conversion Practices Bill – Concerns