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@Valereee Is this organization notable? AFAICT, they were founded a few years ago to oppose a conversion therapy ban and hosted one conference that made news. I'd been holding off on writing the article myself bc the sources seemed to poor when I checked a few months ago lol. Looking at the sources in the article:
Source Analysis
Affinity A primary source, that doesn't mention CAN-SG, from an evangelical org opposing all bans on conversion therapy
Pilgrim 2023 only mentions CAN-SG once to say they were founded to oppose the MOUCT They went on to contribute to two activist organisations of gender-critical professionals, extant at the time of writing (‘Thoughtful Therapists’ and the ‘Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender’). (also, this author is generally FRINGE and spends the piece more broadly attacking conversion therapy bans)
The Guardian just says they criticized the WHO The Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender, a network of clinicians mainly in the UK and Ireland looking at the debate over sex and gender in healthcare, questioned why the WHO appeared to be promoting gender-affirming care as always the best approach. “There are no robust randomised-controlled trials supporting gender-affirming medical and surgical interventions, and therefore there are no studies which tell us about the efficacy of these interventions, in children or adults,” the organisation said in a statement. (randomised-controlled trials are generally considered very unethical in this field)
TransLucent Not sure if this is an RS, but only mentions CAN-SG in passing about their conference She is also the keynote speaker at the upcoming conference of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG). While the name of this organisation might suggest it aims to facilitate a clinical consensus in an area characterised by uncertainty and division, the advance publicity for the conference suggests its approach is relentlessly hostile to gender affirming care.
The Times A commentary dripping with transphobia, which, among other things, questions whether it was transphobic for CAN-SG members to misgender their patients
Discounting the SPS and primary sources, we have the Guardian quoting them complaining about WHO[1], a fringe academic source who only says they were founded to oppose the MOUCT[2], and coverage of the controversy over a single conference of theirs in PulseToday[3] and the unreliable for GENSEX Telegraph[4].
