Posts Tagged ‘gender identity’

The Cass Review reader: investigations into the treatment of gender dysphoric children and youth

Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, April 15th, 2024 - 144 comments

The final report is a carefully worded document designed particularly for the systems of power in charge of child health, wellbeing and safeguarding: health systems and their managers, medical practitioners and their professional bodies, MPs and government departments, and NGOs.

It’s also a damning indictment of the poorly evidence medical experiment that has been done on gender non-conforming children in the past decade. It’s likely to be the biggest medical scandal many of us will see.

UN expert: Allow women and girls to speak on sex, gender and gender identity without intimidation or fear

Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, May 24th, 2023 - 155 comments

“I am deeply concerned at the escalation of intimidation and threats against women and girls for expressing their opinions and beliefs regarding their needs and rights based on their sex and/or sexual orientation”

– Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls

How I answered the census ‘gender’ question 

Written By: - Date published: 10:44 am, April 13th, 2023 - 77 comments

Guest Post by Laura López on the complex problems with the “What is your gender?” question in the New Zealand 2023 Census.

Notes from the CATA Conference: keynote address by Stella O’Malley

Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, August 12th, 2022 - 3 comments

The Child and Adolescent Therapists Association hosted a conference recently on children, adolescents and gender identity.

Should therapists and counsellors speak about the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children?

Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, August 4th, 2022 - 48 comments

Is there a connection between the closure of the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service in the UK, and a conference being held 12,000 miles away in Nelson, Aotearoa?

Supporting all the colours of the rainbow

Written By: - Date published: 1:00 pm, August 27th, 2014 - 69 comments

Labour’s Rainbow Policy got some attention for its promise to offer a third gender option on passports and drivers’ licences. Why is this a big deal?

The server will be getting hardware changes this evening starting at 10pm NZDT.
The site will be off line for some hours.