Cass Review of the Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People, released April 9, 24

Articles on the Cass Review: Sex Matters  BBC  The Guardian  Unherd   The Spectator

NY Times  Andrew Sullivan  Interview with Hilary Cass on Fresh Air 

NY Times Interview with Hilary Cass      Cass Info Sheet in Spanish  Summary of Cass Review

Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine: https://segm.org/ A compendium of current articles, research, and policies, as well as a guide to the history of gender medicine and surgeries. Analyses of current theories, trends, treatments, and laws in transgenderism and the rise of gender dysphoric children and adolescents in Western countries.

Support for Parents of Gender Questioning kids at Genspect (A rational approach to gender)

Step by step support for relatives and parents

Guide for Parents

Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (DIAG) - main website with resources

What is “Gender Affirming Care”? Fact Sheet based on: Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (DIAG)

Interview by Jenny Poyer Ackerman (co-founder of DIAG) with Arienne, mother of a desisted male, who testified to the California Education Assembly Committee against AB1955.

Parent Voices:

Parents of Desisters

Lily Maynard mother of a desisted daughter

Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT)

Jenny Poyer Ackerman - Transmuted podcast - mother of a trans identified daughter

Mrs. Miller - mother of a trans identified daughter

No Way Back: The Reality of Gender Affirming Care

Documentary following the lives of 6 detransitioners

The WPATH Files: leaked documents, videos, and report on activists behind gender affirming care for youth

As kids, they thought they were trans. They no longer do.

By Pamela Paul, New York Times, February 10, 2024

I thought I was saving trans kids, now I am blowing the whistle: Jamie Reed’s testimony on what is actually happening at Gender Care clinics in the U.S. (queer woman married to a transman) Google doc printable version

I spent 13 years living as a man. After my spouse’s exposé, I am detransitioning: Tiger / Roxanna Reed, Jamie Reed’s wife, writes on the trauma and internalized homophobia that convinced her to live as as a trans “man”.

“When it comes to trans youth, we’re in danger of losing our way” by Erica E. Anderson, Ph.D, former president of the United States Professional Association for Transgender Health.

January 3, 2022 8:30 am - Updated January 4, 2022 11:38 am  SF Examiner

Link to copy of full text on a google doc

The Mental Health Establishment is Failing Trans Kids, article published in the Washington Post

in November, 2021, by Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson (WaPo link here)

“Outbreak: On transgender teens and psychic epidemics” by Lisa Marchiano (full article)

Pages 345-366 | Published online: 06 Oct 2017  

Psychological Perspectives

A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought, Volume 60, 2017 - Issue 3: Gender Diversity

Young Detransitioner Voices:

ROGD Boys: A group of narratives of detransitioned young men and resources to support males

Laura Becker “Funk God” Detransitioner Female - Interviewed for Soft White Underbelly

Jonni Skinner Male - Interviewed by Stella O’Malley for Beyond Gender

Maia “Poet” Desister and Detransitioner Female - Interviewed by Julie Bindel

Forrest Smith Detransitioned Male - Interviewed by Stella O’Malley

Kobe Detransitioner Male - Interviewed by Benjamin Boyce

Elle Smith Female - Presentation at WDI in Seattle, November 2024: Minute 47:37-56:00

A Message to Parents by Ritchie Herron, a detransitioned gay man

Some nuance please substack: an article by an anonymous detransitioner

By Any Other Name: the story of my transition and detransition by Helena Kerschner, Feb 2022

Helena, now 23, identified as non-binary and transgender throughout her teenage years, transitioning with HRT from the age of 18 - 19 before detransitioning.

BITE Model - Behavioral Control - written by Helena Kerschner, April 2022

Detransition Q&A YouTube video, 2019, Pique Transition Project, Helena and 3 young women discuss transitioning and detransitioning

Open Letter from Detransitioners: Sinéad Watson, Keira Bell, Rachel Marie Foster, and Carol Freitas, co-founder of DetransVoices.org, citing the need for gender exploratory therapy before medicalized treatment for gender dysphoria.

‘Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It.' Riittakerttu Kaltiala, article from October 30, 23, The Free Press Original version

Gender: A Wider Lens podcast Episode 62: Pioneers Series Adolescent identity with Riittakerttu Kaltiala, Finnish adolescent psychologist and researcher

Psychologists Stella O'Malley & Sasha Ayad interview a researcher in Finland who has researched the rise in gender dysphoric teens and helped create new guidelines in Finland that prioritize psychological care for young people presenting with Gender Dysphoria, rather than focusing only on gender transition requests.  

An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’

By Jonathan Kay, 19 Mar 2019 17 min read

Keira Bell: My Story   As a teen, she transitioned to male but came to regret it. Here’s how it felt to enter history in the trans debate.  Apr 7, 2021

Keira’s story led to the 4 year long Cass Review in the UK.

Scott Newgent, lesbian woman and transman on her story on transitioning and the harm it has caused. Written statement and full video of her statement on Wesley Yang’s substack.

“Texas investigations into gender-affirming care for kids aren’t just cruel, they hurt science” by Lisa Selin Davis, author of “Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different.”

March 4, 2022, San Francisco Chronicle

Link to copy of full text on a google doc

Lisa Selin Davis: letter to schools about secret social transitioning

Series of articles on Trans Youth identity formation: “When sons become daughters” by Angus Fox

Femsplainers Podcast: When sons become daughters

Interview with Angus Fox on talking with parents trying to help their children get help sorting through their gender dysphoria and interview with Corinna Cohn, a trans woman who transitioned at a young age.

“What I wished I’d known when I was 19 and had sex reassignment surgery” by Corinna Cohn

April 11, 2022 Washington Post

“Doctors have failed them, say those who regret transitioning” by Alicia Ault, published on WebMD on March 22, 2022

Trans Train: 3 / 4 part Swedish documentary available on Youtube.

Links for Part 1, 2, and 3

Stopping the Trans Train Part 4: Genspect Synopsis Part 4

https://www.transgendertrend.com/teenager-says-theyre-transgender/: Blog post on the website Transgender Trend.

A controversial guide for trans activists advises them to 'force team' the demands of trans-identified males with the historical struggles of racial minorities. https://4w.pub/trans-activist-guide-encourages-forced-teaming/

Black Women’s Caucus Statement Against Gender Ideology - Women’s Declaration International - this explains how Black girls and women are hurt most by the misogyny of gender ideology and the harm done by force-teaming.

Planned Parenthood is Helping Teenagers Transition After a 30 Minute Consult. Parents and Doctors are Sounding the Alarm. FreeBeacon, by Aaron Sibarium, October 4, 2023

Evolutionary Biologist, Heather Heying: Protect Children: do not allow them to medically transition, a very well explained article on why we need to stop the process of medicalization and allow for developmental maturation in our youth.

Why are so many girls deciding they’d rather be boys - explained comic book style

Letter from Finland and Sweden on trans kids and medicalization / long term studies / why these countries changed protocols on medicalizing trans identified children.

By Lisa Selin Davis, author of TOMBOY: The Surprising History & Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different

When Affirmation Becomes Dangerous "Diagnostic overshadowing" can mean gender-distressed teens don't get good mental health care by Lisa Selin Davis

Trans youth suicide study: Some notes of context and caution around the suicidality rates of trans identifying teens and young adults

How Schools Can Better Support Gender Non-conforming Kids: an article published on Parents for Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) substack. This article highlights the ways in which affirmation only at schools can be quite harmful toward psychological integration of the child.

Amicus Brief against a school district that socially transitioned an 11 year old student without parental consent in Chico, California

Secrets at School on Transgender Identities: a leftist teacher perspective by a mother of a desisted young adult child.

LGB Resources and Voices against Transitioning young people and “transing the gay away”

LGB Courage Coalition website / LGB Courage Coalition substack

LGB Alliance USA

Letter to young lesbian - to share with any young lesbian who believes her body to be “wrong”

Carol Substack “Sour Patches” - a detransitioned butch lesbian, wife, and mother living in CA  

Advocating for Radical Acceptance: Carol’s interview with Arienne on AB1955

Lesbians United YouTube Channel