Women Speak Tasmania have written to the Tasmanian Children’s Commissioner urging her to establish an independent inquiry into the current “gender affirmation” model of treatment being used by the Tasmanian Gender Service for the treatment of minors struggling with gender dysphoria.
WST wrote to Leanne Mclean to advise her of the recently announced closure of England’s Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service after an ongoing review by Dr Hillary Cass found the service was “not a safe or viable long-term option”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62335665
“The Tasmanian Gender Service follows the same ‘gender affirmative’ treatment model as the Tavistock service subjecting young people to what many clinicians are now saying are experimental treatments that can lead to sterility, sexual dysfunction and long term health problems. Developments that the Tasmanian community are unaware of.”
“In 2019 over 260 health professionals signed a petition and wrote to then Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt calling on him to conduct an inquiry over their shared concern about the epidemic of childhood gender dysphoria and the lack of scientific basis for its current treatment.”
“The signatories included 20 professors or associate professors, 14 paediatricians, 20 psychiatrists including 9 child psychiatrists, and many other doctors.”
“England has joined Sweden, France and Finland in taking a more cautious approach to medically interfering with the natural puberty of children.”
“Last year statements by Dr Marci Bowers and Dr Erica Anderson, two top US gender medical providers and now former board members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), further confirm the growing international concern over affirmative model of care for minors at the growing number of gender clinics internationally.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/top-trans-doctors-blow-the-whistle
“It is imperative that her office takes action in the lead up to any Anti Conversion bill being tabled in the Tasmanian Parliament as the developments in the UK are highly significant.”
“We have advised the Commissioner to consult with Dr Phillip Morris, the President of the National Association of Practicing Psychiatrists (NAPP).
“The NAPP Guideline states ‘Psychotherapy for gender dysphoria must NOT be conflated with conversion therapies’ and that “a balanced, compassionate, respectful, caring, cautious, conventional and contemporary approach to the assessment and treatment of young people with gender dysphoria/incongruence”.
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For further information contact:
Isla MacGregor xxxxxxxxxxx
Dr Morris can be contacted on xxxxxxxxx