by Jonathon Van Maren, The Bridgehead
According to a new paper published in the Pediatrics & Child Health, the flagship journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society, Canadian pediatricians should push “full steam ahead” with sex change “treatments” for minors.
These “treatments” are referred to as “gender-affirming care,” an Orwellian phrase which contains the premises of gender ideology under the guise of neutrality and ensures that coverage of the debate surrounding these “treatments” is prejudiced towards the transgender agenda.
As I’ve noted several times before, as far as the Canadian establishment is concerned, the four-year long Cass Review, initiated by the UK National Health Service, simply does not exist. The Cass Review found that transgender “treatments,” particularly for minors, produced dubious results and that the use of puberty blockers was essentially experimental. As a result, the Tory government passed an emergency ban on puberty blockers; the ban was made permanent by the new Labour government.
The authors of the new paper ignored the Cass Review entirely, as did the vast majority of the Canadian press corps.
Instead, as the National Post noted, the paper “suggests that parents who don’t unquestionably affirm their child’s expressed gender risk harming their child,” and “advises pediatricians to offer parents of gender-questioning children advice on social transitions and the many benefits of an affirming environment, and to ‘support menstrual suppression’ using medications such as hormone blockers for a gender dysphoric 12-year-old ‘if appropriate and desired by the patient.’”
The Cass Review found that even social transitioning could be dangerous for the psychological health of children—but despite that, Calgary pediatrician Darrell Palmer told the Post, the authors of the paper are “essentially advocating for socially transitioning children.” Pam Baffone of the parent organization Canadian Gender Report had a similar reaction, noting that the paper “is extremely biased” and omits “inconvenient truths.”
When contacted by the Post, the BC Children’s Hospital insisted that “research conducted over many decades supports the safety and accessibility of gender-affirming care in this province” and that the authors of the paper consulted the Cass Review—but if that is the case, they clearly ignored its findings. As the Post reported: