Category: Media Files
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Gender dysphoria under the microscope in federal review of puberty blocker prescription
A newly announced inquiry by the National Health and Medical Research Council will cut short the Queensland government’s review of puberty blocker prescriptions. Health Minister Mark Butler has announced a nationwide review of best practices for trans and gender diverse youth following the Liberal Queensland government’s decision to halt prescription of puberty blockers. In a…
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Call for federal inquiry into kids gender therapy
More than 100 doctors, academics, lawyers, politicians and so-called ‘detransitioners’ are calling for the Albanese government to pause the use of puberty blockers for children in Australia. More than 100 doctors, academics, lawyers, politicians and so-called “detransitioners” are calling for the Albanese government to launch an immediate inquiry into youth gender medicine and to pause…
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Rape is rape regardless of sexual orientation, non-binary offender told
A North-West offender has been jailed for rape with the judge telling them that unconsensual sex was a crime regardless of the form in which it was committed. The offender, who cannot be named, was sentenced in the Supreme Court in Burnie on Tuesday. The offender identifies as non-binary and their victim identifies the same…
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Barnett meets with group seeking end to optional sex on certificates law
Attorney-General Guy Barnett has met with a feminist group that is calling for the repeal of the state’s sex self-ID legislation. Parliament passed the amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act in 2019, making the listing of babies’ gender optional on birth certificates and allowing any individual over 16 to change their listed gender on the…
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United Kingdom’s ban on puberty blockers for children is not a culture war but a safety matter
Yet again, Australia’s health ministers and officials have been warned about puberty blockers, the drugs given to minors who reject their birth sex and want the “wrong puberty” to be chemically suppressed. The typical response from our gender medicine lobby, and their social justice backers in politics, is that any scepticism about standards of evidence…
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Tasmanian minister ‘prefers’ national inquiry into child gender clinics
A senior state cabinet member has written to the federal government asking for it to consider staging a national review into public medical services for children experiencing gender dysphoria. Health Minister Guy Barnett confirmed he wrote to his federal counterpart, Mark Butler, this week, requesting that he consider a review of gender clinics, following the…
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Inquiring mind
Tasmania’s Liberal government has become the first Australian administration to recommend a national review of public gender services for minors. The island state’s Health Minister, Guy Barnett, who is also Attorney-General, said he had written to his federal counterpart—Australia’s Labor Party Health Minister, Mark Butler—to ask him to consider the idea. On Thursday, Mr Barnett…
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Landmark British report offers insights for Tasmania’s transgender debate
A tectonic shift is taking place overseas in the debate over how to treat children that question their gender identity, and there are plenty of lessons to be learned in Tasmania. The UK government commissioned a review into the treatment of gender-diverse children back in 2020, and its full report by UK paediatrician Dr Hilary…
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Tasmania will this coming week face its free speech litmus test
In the opinion piece “Tasmania will this coming week face its free speech litmus test”, Benjamin Seeder argues that Tasmania’s commitment to free speech would be tested by the planned visit of Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan to Hobart. Seeder describes free speech as a foundational democratic right from which other freedoms flow and contends…