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Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender
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Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender
@CanSG_org
We are a group of UK and Ireland based clinicians calling for greater understanding of the effects of sex and gender in healthcare #FirstDoNoHarm
Joined February 2022
While trans activists attempted to halt yesterdays conference with chants of ‘you don’t care if children die’ the real suicide figures were discussed inside. Thankfully they are very rare and there is no evidence that medical treatment reduces them in fact quite the opposite (
- CAN-SG is not a ‘gender-critical pressure group’. We are a network of clinicians & medical whistleblowers doing ‘medicine as usual’. CAN-SG membership is only available to clinicians & healthcare workers. We strongly object to these misrepresentations of our organisation and
- We're a group of UK & Ireland based clinicians calling for greater understanding of the effects of sex and gender in healthcare. We campaign for clearer dialogue, better data collection, rigorous science and improved treatment options for gender dysphoria
- FOI response has revealed that Chief Medical Officer @DrGregorSmith has approved SPATH as Scotland's new treatment protocol. GPs will be able to prescribe hormones, & refer patients for surgery, without psychological assessment. This decision goes against @Hilary_Cass
- Please sign and circulate our letter requesting the NHS reinstate women in their health care guidance.
- An NHS radiologist expresses serious concerns about diagnostic procedures being affected by gender ideology
- The conference yesterday was a great success. Over 150 attended in person with hundreds watching on the livestream. The speakers were fantastic and the footage will be put on the CAN-SG website soon. Protesters tried but did not succeed in impeding access to the conference. It
- Drs have been urged to return to “ordinary best practice” involving non-medicalised methods when treating children/young people with gender dysphoria. Speaking at the CAN-SG #FirstDoNoHarm conference clinical psychologist Anna Hutchinson said that the practices at the Tavistock
- “When normal clinical discussion begins to be framed as prejudice, it is patients who suffer. Healthcare should be driven by evidence not ideology" Dr Stella Kingett, co chair, CAN-SG #FirstDoNoHarm
- Our letter advising the reintroduction of the word ‘woman’ into NHS guidelines is gaining traction.Please continue to sign and circulate it.
- Thank you to everyone who signed our letter to NHS chiefs urging them to reinstate the word “woman” in health information for women - an impressive 7000 signatures, including over 1200 clinicians. Here’s a thread with links to news coverage yesterday, on International Women’s Day
- The policy of "affirmation" ... was an inappropriate clinical stance brought about by influential activist groups and some senior...staff Dr David Bell CAN-SG Read his full page opinion piece on @thecassreview in @guardian today #FirstDoNoHarm
- Poignant testimony from Ritchie Herron about what the growing community of detransitioners need from clinicians in terms of healthcare. Ritchie describes a ‘clinical fatigue’ where where clinical interventions are necessary but the trauma acquired from poor surgery is aRitchie Herron will talk at the CAN-SG conference, from his perspective, about vulnerable adults, medical gender transition and detransition. Join the livestream: buytickets.at/clinicaladviso…
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