Toast to the Washington Post
Letter to the Editor to Share why you Care
The Cass Review continues to reverberate out with more media coverage and policy changes on an international level, including the banning of puberty blockers in Scotland.
In the US, two high-profile OpEds have continued to highlight the findings of the Cass Review. The first, “The US needs a bipartisan, open-minded gender medicine commission”, was written by Lisa Selin-Davis and published in the Boston Globe. The second OpEd, “A new report roils debate on youth gender care,” was written by therapist Paul Garcia-Ryan and published in the Washington Post.
This move by the Washington Post is unprecedented and represents another significant milestone in the legacy media’s willingness to allow for more open debate of youth gender medicine.
Write a Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post
Please take a few minutes to write a Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, to thank them for publishing the OpEd, and to call for more investigative reporting on the Cass Review and its implications for youth gender medicine in the United States.
Write your email to: letters@washpost.com
Here is a sample outline of what you could write:
1) I am a _______ (mother, lesbian, father, gay man, doctor, therapist, transgender adult, teacher, etc) and I am writing to thank you for publishing Paul Garcia Ryan’s guest OpEd on youth gender medicine
2) Like Garcia-Ryan, I too believe youth experiencing gender incongruence deserve better care
3) Add your reasons why you care, why you are concerned, and any important points you want to make about the article or the topic itself
4) End with a statement about how this article is a step in the right direction, and that you hope the Washington Post will continue to show courage in supporting journalists and writers to do true investigative work on this issue - you may highlight any area where you want to see them do more reporting and investigation
As always, if you submit a letter, please leave us a note in the comments! Share the inspiration with others to help it ripple out.
Dear Editor,
Thank you so much for publishing today’s Op-Ed on The Youth Gender debate sparked by the Release of the Cass Report.
As the parent of an autistic teen who thinks it is possible to change one’s sex, it is always a relief to read something in the mainstream that takes a more circumspect approach on this issue. Someday soon, I hope to see an investigative piece that is not just in the op-ed section which has been the case with the Washington Post and the NY Times.
The piece on the Autistic Trans college kid who wanted to be accepted into the sorority was in the online edition of the WaPo for quite some time, among other articles of a pro trans nature.
Please consider doing an investigative article on WPATH’s influence on the APA, AMA and AAP. Also dig into the release of the WPATH files. They are quite revealing. Interview parents who are struggling. Interview both detransitioners and people who have transitioned, (ideally been transitioned for more than 10 years).
This issue may not affect enough of the population in the more tangible ways but I believe it has affected everyone in the less tangible ways, ie. our speech(how we refer to people, pronouns) , how we think about biology and our sense of reality. It is no trivial matter and it will leave a lasting affect on my kids’ generation for years to come.
Thank you,
My words of wisdom submitted to WaPo:
I am a physician with special interest in the evidence behind medical strategies to affirm a trans identity, and have followed the Cass Commission for at least 2 years. Its release is a huge resource for medicine and the broader society as we try to sort out what actually helps gender dysphoric kids. It has been extensively covered in the UK media outlets of all political persuasions. In the US, not so much. I see your editorial, an article in the NYT, and something in the Atlantic, plus not surprisingly in conservative outlets like the NY Post. We need to be hearing much more. Unfortunately, opinions on gender have aligned with political identity in the US. With the Cass Report, the UK is taking the lead in getting politics out of gender care. We need more of that in the US.
The Washington Post took early leadership in covering questioning voices back in 2021 when it published the editorial by Erica Anderson and Laura Edwards-Leeper advocating gender exploratory treatment for gender questioning kids. That was a good start, but you now have an enormous opportunity to inject science into the American debate. I hope you will aggressively share the Cass Report with the American public.