Canada’s dangerous commitment to trans-affirming care for minors
Across the Western world, a reversal is unfolding. Steps are being taken to drastically limit or ban many of the radical gender-transition interventions and adjacent trans-affirming policies involving minors. These policies have permitted unnecessary surgeries, but also, prescriptions of puberty blocking drugs, dispensed to minors, sometimes within minutes of assessment by a gender specialist, and at other times, to wait-listed patients “prior to their initial appointment” (Blanchard 2022).