🇨🇦 Parliament resumes on the 23rd and #billc8 to bank conversion therapy is likely to be reintroduced. This is a thread of some of my previous threads on the matter for reference purposes. This was a detailed comment on the previous bill. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1269735… /2
1/ Here's what Trump has said about stopping medical transition of minors. Some of it makes sense but other parts are questionable and probably unconstitutional.
2/ "I will sign and executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age." Easy to do, and will make it easier to work for reform at the state and local level. Note that it includes adults.
3/ "I will then ask Congress to permanently stop federal tax dollars being used to promote or pay for these procedures ...."
Easily done and would cut off support for gender medicine under Medicare, Medicaid, prisons and military health plans.
1/ Some thoughts from Canada on how the US election will impact the gender debate. Rachel Levine will be fired and most of Biden's executive orders on the application of Title IX to sports and trans health care will be repealed.
2/ The Supreme Court will hear the Skremetti case on state bans on youth gender medicine before Trump takes office. If the case goes as expected, the result will be to leave the issue of youth gender medicine to the states.
3/ This will create a situation where half the states ban medical gender transition of minors and in the other half parents who won't consent to medical transition risk losing custody of their children. Neither side is likely to provide adequate mental health support.
1/ The authors of the Canadian Paediatric Society position statement on gender affirming care have now published a response to the recent letter to the editor calling for a review of the position statement in light of the Cass Review. academic.oup.com/pch/advance-ar…
2/ The response repeats falsehoods such as the claim that the systematic reviews commissioned by the Cass Review excluded studies which were not randomized control trials when in fact the systematic reviews considered and evaluated all types of studies. cass.independent-review.uk/home/publicati…
3/ The response relies heavily on a critique of the Cass Review by Dr. Meredithe McNamara et al. distributed by the "Yale Integrity Project." The first peer reviewed rebuttal to this paper has just been published. adc.bmj.com/content/early/…
1/ The proposals by @ABDanielleSmith to protect gender-questioning youth in schools and healthcare are generally consistent with best international practice and evidence but there are still a few problem areas. .
@ABDanielleSmith 2/ Banning gender reassignment surgery on minors should be a non-issue. Activists claim it never happens but it does. Someone too young to get a tattoo shouldn't be able to get an elective double mastectomy. nationalpost.com/news/young-det…
@ABDanielleSmith 3/ The proposal to restrict puberty blockers and cross sex hormones to children over 16 is close the the current policies in England, Sweden and Finland. These countries do make an exemption for patients enrolled in a research program.segm.org/Swedish-2022-t…
1/ The Trevor Project study which claims that "anti-transgender" laws caused increases in suicide attempts among trans and non-binary youth is a flawed study that is being presented in a misleading and irresponsible way.
2/ The 72% increase in suicide attempts highlighted in the press release misrepresents data in the study which refers to an increase of 72% above the sample mean. Also, the methodology used cannot prove causation.
3/ The actual results are all inconsistent. The study reports 18 results and found 6 which were not statistically significant, 2 which were negative and 2 where the increase was less than 10% above the sample mean.
1/ The Department for Education in England no longer recognizes the concept of a trans child. The latest version of it statutory guidance on keeping children safe in schools has replaced LGBT with LGB and
gender questioning children. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66cef97c…
2/ Compare with the 2023 statutory guidance which simply referred to "children who are LGBT" as a group and talks about the need for staff to provide a "safe space." web.archive.org/web/2024082215…
3/ The shift in language is significant because it rejects the trans activist strategy of conflating gender identity and sexual orientation as well as the view that children who question there gender are automatically "trans" if they say so.