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Why are gender ideologues excited about the new Germans treatment guideline? Norway | The Norwegian Directorate of Health has been asked to examine the gender treatment guidelines of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The Minister of Health and Care Services, Jan Christian Vestre, cited a specific request from two transgender advocacy groups that German-language jurisdictions be a possible model for Norway. In 2023, Norway’s independent healthcare investigator Ukom described the hormonal treatment of minors as experimental and recommended that the country’s 2020 gender-affirming guidelines be revised in the light of a “gold-standard” systematic review of the evidence. That revision is yet to happen. The redirected focus on Germany, Switzerland and Austria in fact relates to a single, German-language guideline issued amid strong criticism in March 2025. Unlike evidence-based guidance in England, Finland and Sweden, the German-language project failed to carry out a systematic review of the evidence and ignored the European shift to a more cautious treatment policy. The group Gender Identity Challenge (GENID) Norway, a critic of the gender-affirming model, said the decision to exclude the guidelines from Finland and Sweden—jurisdictions similar to Norway’s—was “particularly striking”. In an opinion article for the liberal-conservative newspaper Minerva, the GENID board called on Minister Vestre to explain the choice to examine the German-language guideline and not others, and to account for the failure to implement a revision of the 2020 guideline starting with the foundation of a systematic review. Link below to more gender clinic news from around the world…