Opinion: It’s time Canadian medical leaders stood up to gender medicine

Last spring, esteemed pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass issued her final report of an exhaustive four-year-long inquiry into clinical “gender identity” practices in the United Kingdom. After forensically plucking away at the basis for herding minors down an irreversible pathway of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and genital-revision surgery, she concluded that the evidence supporting those practices simply doesn’t exist.

Yet on this side of the pond, we remain unwilling to acquiesce to the truths laid bare by the Cass Review. The unfounded construct of “gender-affirming care,” which holds that gender incongruence can manifest as early as age four, and that questioning a minor’s gender self-identification is both harmful and unethical, continues to hold sway in Canadian and American classrooms, courtrooms, boardrooms and, sadly, doctors’ exam rooms.

Read more on the National Post.