Members of Women Speak Tasmania are protesting today at 12.45 pm outside the Tasmanian Gender Services premises at 60 Collins Street. The protest is part of an international movement to draw attention to the unethical medicalisation of children with gender dysphoria.
WST, in partnership with International Partners for Ethical Care (PEC), will be protesting with a sign which states –
‘NO CHILD IS BORN IN THE WRONG BODY’
Spokesperson Isla MacGregor said, ‘We are calling on all candidates for the coming Tasmanian state election to support the urgent establishment of a Parliamentary Inquiry into the experimental and irreversible treatments being used on vulnerable children’.
PEC held similar protests earlier this year across the USA, with more planned over the coming months.
Also today, protests will be held by the Coalition for Biological Reality in Melbourne outside the Health Minister’s office, and by International Women’s Day Brisbane Meanjin (not affiliated with PEC) in Brisbane outside the Queensland Health Department office.
Under the affirmation model of care, gender dysphoric children are diagnosed as ‘transgender’ and funnelled into an experimental medical pathway lacking robust evidence to support the medical and surgical interventions provided. Beginning with ‘social transitioning’, children are then prescribed experimental, high risk puberty blockers, then cross-sex hormones, followed by drastic and irreversible ‘gender confirmation’ surgeries. In Australia, girls as young as 15 have been approved for double mastectomies.
‘Children are being medically transitioned, who, without the influence of ‘affirmation care’, would otherwise come to terms with their natal sex. Among them are high numbers of gay, lesbian and bisexual children, children with a history of trauma and also those diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder’.
‘Previously healthy children are reaching their mid-twenties and discovering they have osteopenia, the precursor to osteoporosis. The effects of cross-sex hormones often result in infertility’.
‘This is a medical scandal and time will show that. We expect many lawsuits in the near future’, said Isla MacGregor
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