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Dec 9, 2024 | 
informeddissentpodcast.substack.com | Lisa Davis
We dish about what happened both inside and outside the Supreme Court, and touch briefly on the new detransitioner lawsuit against gender-affirming care’s doyenne, Johanna Olson-Kennedy. Supreme Court transcriptEconomist story by Jesse Singal about Kaya Clementine Breen’s lawsuit. Jamie’s speech on the steps of SCOTUS. Ben’s speech.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Lisa Davis
A few months ago, I had coffee with friends I hadn’t seen in a while. We’d been traveling similar political paths for some time: solidly lefty Democrats who’d soured on what we’d come to see as our party’s excesses, particularly around identity. We recognized that the DEI industry had created far more fissures than inclusion, that the COVID school closures were a mistake, the lockdowns excessive, the overtolerance of crime problematic.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
broadview.news | Lisa Davis
The Cass Review’s 388-page Final Report, released last April, is the world’s most comprehensive document on youth gender medicine. Tasked by England’s National Health Service to investigate, renowned pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass spent four years gathering evidence and interviewing stakeholders from all sides of the debate over how to treat gender dysphoric kids. The conclusion she came to?
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
broadview.news | Lisa Davis
The Anthropology Research Group on Homosexuality in 1978, hoping to convince the American Anthropological Association to allow for the study of homosexuality—legitimize and destigmatize it. In 1987, it became the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA)—the anthropologists themselves demanded representation, not just the approval of subject matter they studied.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Lisa Davis
Imagine that, in the past decade, many young people developed a serious illness — one that had previously been rare. Let’s say there’s no consensus about how to diagnose or treat it, nor any way to discern who would grow out of it naturally or for whom it would be permanent. Still, some parents and providers passionately support a specific, highly invasive medication. So does an advocacy group that creates the guidelines most Americans follow.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
realityslaststand.com | Lisa Davis
Reality’s Last Stand is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paying subscriber or making a one-time or recurring donation to show your support. Lisa Selin Davis is the author of HOUSEWIFE: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead and TOMBOY: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different. She’s currently researching a book on the youth gender culture war. This article was originally published on the author’s Substack: .
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
broadview.news | Lisa Davis
Last night, I had drinks with a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time, determined not to talk about The Issue. But a few minutes before I arrived, I found out that The New York Times had decided not to publish a part of a story about the World Professional Association for Transgender Health—an advocacy group that creates “standards of care” for trans medicine, which American medical groups avow to adhere to (they don’t) and claim are evidence-based (they aren’t).
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
pharmacytimes.com | Lisa Davis
June 12, 2024Pharmacy Practice in Focus: OncologyJune 2024Strategies to advance sex and gender equality nationally and globally in oncology have been initiated in recent years. Lisa E. Davis, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, BCOP, is the editor in chief of Pharmacy Practice in Focus: Oncology.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
broadview.news | Lisa Davis
In April and May, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies offered a two-part workshop for journalists. “Transgender Coverage: Avoiding rhetoric to deliver meaningful journalism,” was hosted by a white-haired Poynter faculty member of gentlemanly manner, and featured a clinician, a lawyer, and a variety of gender-creative journalists. The aim of these webinars was to “remove ourselves from the politics of outrage to explore the facts.”Unfortunately, they outrageously flouted the facts.
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May 9, 2024 | 
broadview.news | Lisa Davis
Hi, all. For the last year, I’ve been putting together a timeline of key events in the history of youth gender medicine, from the 1998 Dutch paper to the first trans kids conference, from the debut of Jazz Jennings to the Cass Review, Sissy Boy papers, GIDS opening, first social transition guidelines for schools, 4thWaveNow, Title IX: key moments and developments in media, medicine, academia, pop culture, law, research etc.
