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
NHS Updates Guidance
https://twitter.com/jameskirkup/status/1268461888775602177 James Kirkup asks: Given that the NHS now says that hormone therapy for gender-variant children has unknown long-term effects on the physical and mental health of those children, why is the NHS still using such treatments on children? And we would add… Why is the NHS still using such treatments on adolescents and young … Continue reading NHS Updates Guidance
Will Malone Interview
https://youtu.be/vfQDdArmJMY Resisting Adolescence - Episode Two Endocrinologist Will Malone is interviewed by Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull - a.k.a. Posie Parker. This interview is notable for the way Kellie-Jay gets Dr Malone to convey the information in a way that is understandable to the layperson
In Australia
Health Minister Greg Hunt remains silent on whether there will be a probe into transgender health care in Australia. The issue is not going away. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/hunt-keeps-mum-on-his-veto-of-probe-into-trans-kids-treatment/news-story/e8ac16080f335168563f49c1a1b13d64
BBC Newsnight
This TV programme includes an interview between Emily Maitlis and Elizabeth van Horn of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. During this interview, Emily Maitlis asks some of the questions we had previously pitched at the Council of Governor’s meeting. Specifically, that people are put on medical pathways without the requisite evidence, and that … Continue reading BBC Newsnight
The Trans Train
The Trans Train - Swedish documentary (with English subtitles)
Editorial in BJGP
This editorial in the British Journal of General Practice is an objective and accurate report on Gender incongruence in children, adolescents, and adults. Authors are: Susan Bewley, Damian Clifford, Margaret McCartney and Richard Byng https://bjgp.org/content/69/681/170
Medical Transitions
https://youtu.be/3obFi7kXdDQ Medical Transitions - Long Term Outcomes A video survey, by Paul Dirks, of all the long-term outcome studies on medical transition over 10 years. Error: near the end of the video I state that in Adams, 2017 the "past year" measure was for treated individuals. This is not necessarily the case and would have … Continue reading Medical Transitions
Health Risks
Transgender people can end up 'badly damaged' says Lord Robert Winston https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/01/transgender-people-can-end-badly-damaged-says-lord-robert-winston/