Resources and Research on
1) Pediatric Gender Affirming Care
2) DEI
3) Critical Theories
1) Pediatric “Gender Affirming Care”
Resources are not produced by Colorado Principled Physicians and they are shared here for conversation and discussion; they do not necessarily represent the views of Colorado Principled Physicians or its members.
Academic or professional papers on pediatric gender medicine?
The final report of the Cass Review is the report of a four-year independent review of evidence by a team led by NHS UK pediatrician, Dr. Hilary Cass. 246 pages, plus references and appendices.
StatsForGender.org has organized peer-reviewed research by topic.
Health and Human Services Gender Dysphoria Report US Department of Health and Human Services issues 409 page report on pediatric gender dysphoria. Recommends that the US change course in favor of the approach adopted by European countries that rejects the affirmation-only model and advances psychosocial interventions.
HB25-1039 Costs of Procedures Gender-affirming and facial feminization procedures vary widely in cost, from a few hundred dollars annually for hormone therapy to $60,000+ for complex surgeries like phalloplasty. Most procedures involve additional fees for anesthesia, facility use, and follow-up care, with total expenses often depending on individual needs and treatment plans.
News Articles:
'Considerable Uncertainty' Remains About Gender Treatments For Kids, Canadian Researchers Warn, “Two new major reviews by Canadian researchers echo findings of U.K. review that led to ban on puberty blockers for trans-identifying youth.”
A Consensus-No-Longer, The American Society of Plastic Surgeons becomes the first major medical association to challenge the consensus of “gender -affirming care” for minors.
Research Into Trans Medicine Has Been Manipulated, Court documents from a case in Alabama reveal that WPATH exerted undue influence over the independent systematic reviews it commissioned from Johns Hopkins University, potentially undermining the credibility of its findings.
The New York Times Interview with Dr. Hilary Cass, Hilary Cass Says U.S. Doctors Are ‘Out of Date’ on Youth Gender Medicine.
The Cass Review Won't Fade Away, How youth gender medicine broke almost every liberal institution it touched.
The Free Press with Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, “Gender Affirming Care is Dangerous, I know Because I Helped Pioneer It.”
The New York Times interview with Dr. Hilary Cass, Hilary Cass Says U.S. Doctors Are ‘Out of Date’ on Youth Gender Medicine.
The WPATH Files show that leaders are aware of the risks and consent issues involved in “gender-affirming care” in minors.
N.Y. Times Pamela Paul Opinion, Why is the U.S. still pretending we know gender-affirming care works?
The mental health establishment is failing trans kids, Washington Post Op-Ed from 2021: Gender-exploratory therapy is a key step. Why aren’t therapists providing it? Perspective by Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson.
Top Plastic Surgeon Won't Commit to Opposing Bans of Gender-Transition Treatment For Minors, plus he decries WPATH for lack of transparency.
Podcasts:
The Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (The Cass Review). Dr. Hilary Cass speaks on Boston’s NPR station, WBUR. On Point podcast, May 8, 2024: 'Cass Review' author: More 'caution' advised for gender-affirming care for youth.
This Is One of the Biggest Medical Malpractice Scandals in History. Michael Shellenberger, climate activist, bestselling author and journalist discusses the shocking revelations published in the WPATH Files. The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, March 28, 2024: Apple Spotify YouTube
I Worked in ‘Gender’ House of Horrors. Psychotherapist Marcus Evans is a whistleblower who worked at the Tavistock Clinic which has been shut down for its treatment of children who wanted to ‘transition’ to the other sex. Heretics podcast, March 31, 2024: Apple Spotify YouTube
The biggest Gender Scandal in History. Andrew Doyle is a TV presenter for GB News who wrote Free Speech and The New Puritans. He discusses one of the biggest scandals in history - the WPATH Files leak that showed doctors knew they were ruining lives…but went ahead anyway. Heretics podcast, March 14, 2024: Apple Spotify YouTube
Videos:
The British Medical Journal interviewed Dr. Hilary Cass to explain the results of her evidence review and her recommendations. 32 minutes.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) Grills a doctor who supports providing gender affirming care for minors at the June 6, 2023 U.S. House of Representatives Energy Committee hearing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hyXQWmf2r0
Powerful and articulate House Committee testimony: Psychiatrist Miriam Grossman,M.D., June 14, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azx8e5nmc9g&t=5s
Popular books:
Abigail Shrier, investigative reporter, covered the explosion in young girls seeking “gender affirming care” in her book, Irreversible Damage.
Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness, by Miriam Grossman M.D.
Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, by Helen Joyce
What other organizations are advancing evidence-based medicine in this area?
The Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine (SEGM).
The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) in Medicine.
2) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Medicine
Academic or professional papers:
Ian Kingsbury, Ph.D. and Jay P. Greene, Ph.D. evaluate the systematic reviews that evaluate racial segregation, we mean, um, concordance, in medicine, in Racial Concordance in Medicine: The Return of Segregation.
Sociologist and philosopher Musa al-Gharbi, Ph.D. reviews the history and evidence behind D.E.I. in Diversity is Important. Diversity-Related Training is Terrible.
Articles:
Bari Weiss, in The Free Press, says it’s time to End DEI. She discusses the dangers of DEI, including anti-semitism.
Raheem Williams say “I am Black and Reject Diversity Programming. Here’s Why.”
Erec Smith, former DEI director writes about DEI at Human Progress and on Glenn Loury’s Substack.
Daryl Davis: “We should be anti-racism, not anti-racist, when we refer to the person as opposed to a state of being. We don’t want to be against the person, but against their belief system which is racism.”
Harvard Law School Professor Randall L. Kennedy claims D.E.I. decreases academic freedmen in “Mandatory DEI Statements Are Ideological Pledges of Allegiance. Time to Abandon Them.”
Colorado regulators are trying to increase racial “concordance” (race pairing, aka segregation).
A Black doctor and and an immigrant doctor are suing the state of California over DEI.
Articles on DEI failing to deal with, or increasing, anti-semitism:
DEI minimizes anti-semitism. Did pushing against anti-semitism lose a DEI director—who is Black—her job?
Articles on DEI harming lay people:
A “gifted and talented” school was closed in Seattle on the basis of “inequity.” Black parents asked to keep it, but their concerns were dismissed as “tokenizing.”
Videos:
Bari Weiss, on YouTube, says it’s time to End DEI. She discusses the dangers of DEI, including anti-semitism. 22 minutes.
Coleman Hughes, on YouTube, gives a TED talk on what “color blindness” really means. Hint: It’s a metaphor, not a claim to be literally blind to color. 13 minutes
Books?
The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, by Coleman Hughes.
Liberal Columbia linguist John McWhorter wrote a book about the religious views of DEI-related beliefs. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, by John McWhorter.
What other organizations are advancing evidence-based, principled medicine in this area?
The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) in Medicine.
3) Critical Theory, an Illiberal Speculative (Made-up) Philosophy Detached from Reality
Book on Critical Theories, a.k.a Applied Postmodernism, a.k.a Social Constructivist Identitarianism, or whichever name one prefers for such ideas:
Social Justice Fallacies, by Thomas Sowell
The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids, by Logan Lancing and James Lindsay
Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: (Expanded Edition), by Stephen R. C. Hicks
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam, by Vivek Ramaswamy
Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation, by Karol Markowicz and Bethany Mandel
The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World, by Andrew Doyle
Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children by Samuel Blumenfeld (Author), Alex Newman (Author)
When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives, by Heather Mac Donald
Podcasts
What’s REALLY Happening on College Campuses. Rikki Schlott, an American journalist, co-author of ‘The Canceling of the American Mind’ with Greg Lukianoff, who previously worked for his organisation FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.) On Triggernometry podcast, March 6, 2024: Apple Spotify YouTube
What other organizations are advancing philosophy based in reality?
Professor Stephen R. C. Hicks’ YouTube Channel.
