Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (DIAG)
https://www.di-ag.org/
It’s not just Republicans who are concerned about ‘gender-affirming care’!


WHO WE ARE
Over the past 10 years, gender ideology has rapidly swept the nation, largely via hijacking the gay rights movement, and under the guise of kindness. Understandably, Democrats were quick to get on board. You’re here because you know gender ideology and the medicalization of children is in direct opposition to core liberal values: protecting children and other vulnerable people from harm; upholding the rights of women and girls to safety, dignity, protection of their honors and achievements; holding as foundational the scientific method, including practicing evidence-based medical care; freedom of speech and thought. You know biological reality is immutable and that we cannot continue to throw gay, lesbian, and gender non-conforming/gender distressed children under the wheels of this regressive, out of control, ideological bus.
​We think so too. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and we’re Dems, or recently ex-Dems, or newly politically homeless former Dems, who still hold onto our liberal values but believe that our party has veered way off track.
​We all share a common concern: our Democratic representatives, and many of our liberal friends, neighbors, relatives, icons, and organizations are supporting and promoting a harmful ideology and shutting down necessary discourse on the topic of gender. Remaining incurious about the sudden rise in adolescent girls and boys seeking escape from their bodies, the dangerous and disturbing realities of “gender affirming care,” and the irrational elevation of gender identity over the biological reality of sex, is neither ethical nor sustainable.
​Our core group of founders is an all-volunteer group of parents, public health professionals, attorneys, teachers, and others who care deeply about the welfare of those affected by gender ideology. We are all balancing family situations and jobs that require anonymity.
​Please feel free to contact us<https://www.di-ag.org/connect> with any questions.
MISSION STATEMENT
For too long, the harms of the gender-transition industry have been hidden behind rhetoric. DIAG is an organization of lifelong democratic voters working to depoliticize and shed light on this ideologically driven medical scandal.
​We’re building a movement to shift the prevailing narrative around these experimental, dangerous medical practices that comprise “gender affirming care” (sex trait modification) and clear the path for a safer, saner, evidence-based response to gender distress.
GOALS

  *   Create a large coalition of Democrats (and those who have recently unaffiliated), who are deeply concerned about our Democratic representatives’ willful ignorance and silence in the face of the destructive effects of sex trait modification (STM) (euphemistically known as “gender affirming care”) and gender identity ideology, and the large-scale promotion of gender identity ideology.
  *   Demonstrate that there is a growing movement of Democrats who are critical of gender-identity ideology and STM, and that these criticisms are based on child safeguarding and science, not bigotry and ignorance.
  *   Increase our Democratic representatives‘ and candidates’ understanding of STM to shift their support away from experimental medical intervention and the “affirmation” model toward exploratory therapy.
·        Develop a public health campaign to reach target audiences, providing evidence-based information about “gender affirming care.”
https://www.di-ag.org/who-we-are


Melissa Raven
MPsych(Clin) MMedSc(ClinEpid) PhD
Psychiatric epidemiologist and policy analyst
Research Fellow
Critical and Ethical Mental Health<https://www.adelaide.edu.au/robinson-research-institute/critical-and-ethical-mental-health/> research group (CEMH)
www.adelaide.edu.au/robinson-research-institute/research/groups/cemh/<http://www.adelaide.edu.au/robinson-research-institute/research/groups/cemh/>
Robinson Research Institute
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
University of Adelaide
55 King William Road, North Adelaide SA 5006, AUSTRALIA
PhD: Depression and antidepressants in Australia and beyond - a critical public health analysis https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3686/


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