Health Minister Mark Butler congratulated on inquiry into gender medicine for children

Women Speak Tasmania congratulates the federal Health Minister Mark Butler on his decision to establish an inquiry into gender medicine guidelines for young people suffering gender distress.

Mark Butler’s decision comes in the wake of the recent whistleblower allegations about the rogue Cairns Sexual Health Service that have prompted the Queensland Government to suspend the use of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones pending a thorough review into the CSHS.

While WST welcomes the inquiry, we will be suggesting to Mark Butler that a specially formed panel of experts in the area of evidence based gender medicine would be a preferable body to conduct this inquiry rather than the NHMRC.

WST understands that Mark Butler had already ‘been warned by his own department that England’s landmark Cass review found puberty blockers did not improve mental health and that the treatment guidelines used by gender clinics across Australia have been rated poorly for rigour……the federal Department of Health reports that the RCH treatment document is among the majority of gender dysphoria guidelines around the world rated poorly by the Cass review for their lack of rigorous development and independence. “*

*https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/what-butler-knows?fbclid=IwY2xjawIJStdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQ3Pxnje857AbZKWhx5F8NOoWmtqVoH3fluDVvoPwumBe3YUDHMsMyn4Ag_aem_zfVyknxd5UjbEAguYfF57g

Currently the Tasmanian Gender Service is providing puberty blockers that have been banned in several countries and is not monitoring for outcomes of its treatments.

For further information contact 

Dr Elizabeth Caballero Pastor (retired GP)

[email protected]

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