Category: Women Healthcare
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ACON given $7 million to produce non-gendered language cancer campaign
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The Albanese government has given a seven-figure contract to a LGBTQ group which produced a cancer campaign targeting women, using non-gendered language such as “people with a cervix”. The federal government awarded a $7 million contract to a LGBTQ lobby group to produce a women’s cancer campaign using non-gendered language, despite the public health message…
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Trans men ‘becoming postmenopausal’ in their 20s
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Study found many had bladder and bowel symptoms they would expect to see in a woman after the menopause Transgender men are suffering from “postmenopausal” problems like incontinence in their 20s because of taking testosterone, a study has revealed. Experts analysed 68 transgender men who were taking the cross-sex hormone to change their identity from female to…
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Is Terry White Pharmacy excluding mothers?
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The Terry White Chemmart Catalogue which was for items on sale from 1st June until 20th June 2023, contained the page shown below. The section entitled A family affair includes the sentence, ‘The birthing parent is the most important person in the family to be vaccinated.’ This is yet another example of the insidious and…
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How did NHS body get the law so badly wrong over its rules on same-sex care?
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Patients are supposed to be at the heart of everything the NHS does. This is considered such an important principle that, a decade ago, the fledgling NHS constitution was rewritten after the mid-Staffs scandal, in which so many patients died, to make clear it should frame every aspect of NHS work. Yet, last week, the NHS Confederation, the membership…
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Sleepwalking through the minefield
Commercial surrogacy and the global response Many would-be parents, who can offer a child a good life but cannot themselves conceive, experience an aching desire for a child to nurture and care for. Assisted reproductive technology (“ART”) has enabled those with reproductive difficulties, or who are unable to have a child naturally, to have a…
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Rodney Croome OAM out of order on surrogacy
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Rodney Croome’s recent statement questioning the legal requirement that altruistic surrogates be at least 25 years of age and have already given birth, exposes his poor judgement in commenting on matters about which he is ill informed – namely women’s rights and reproduction https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-29/parents-of-tasmania27s-first-surrogate-baby-call-for-more-supp/6355392 The Nordic Model Australia Coalition (NorMAC) expressed their deep concern that…