Category: Paediatric Gender Medicine
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Royal Children’s board must not ignore judge’s trans case findings
After an experienced and highly respected judge has so strongly criticised the hospital’s chief of medicine, one might expect the board to announce it was treating the issues raised with the utmost seriousness. Justice Andrew Strum, who recently decided the case of Re Devin, was so concerned about the evidence he heard from a clinician…
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Retired judge Steven Strickland says key puberty blocker case ‘may have been different’ in light of new evidence
A judge who helped decide a landmark case giving parents – not courts – the authority to approve puberty blockers for their children says the outcome might have been different if today’s medical evidence had been available. A judge who helped decide a landmark case in 2013 giving parents, rather than courts, the authority to…
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How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost
The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation. One day last December, a clutch of dark-suited lawyers descended the steps of the Supreme Court to a hero’s welcome. The lawyers, from the American Civil Liberties Union, had that morning joined counterparts from the Biden administration in asking the court to…
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Analysis from the article: “Critiques of the Cass Review: Fact-Checking the Peer-Reviewed and Grey Literature”
by Kathleen McDeavitt, J. Cohn, and Stephen B. Levine, published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy* (2025, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 175-199). This document critiques four articles that challenged the Cass Review, a report on pediatric transgender healthcare commissioned by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The analysis covers the document’s purpose,…
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Tasmanian Doctors Julie Sladden and Rachel Bradley join national call to halt gender affirming interventions for gender distressed youth
Tasmanian Doctors Julie Sladden and Rachel Bradley join national call to halt gender affirming interventions for gender distressed youth WST congratulate Tasmanian Doctors Julie Sladden and Rachel Bradley for signing an Open Letter calling for the halt of gender affirming interventions for gender distressed youth. The Open Letter signed by over 100 clinicians calls on…
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Australian clinicians call for halt of gender affirming interventions
Over 100 Australian clinicians have signed the letter calling for the halt of gender affirming interventions. Read below: OPEN LETTER TO AUSTRALIAN HEALTH BODIES REGARDING GENDER-AFFIRMING INTERVENTIONS As clinicians, we call on our professional bodies and regulatory authorities to urgently acknowledge and respond to recent international and local developments in the field of youth gender…
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Children’s hospital backs Michelle Telfer after judge’s criticism
The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne has championed its chief of medicine Michelle Telfer after a judge found she gave misleading evidence in support of a mother who wanted her child to be prescribed puberty blockers. The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne has championed its chief of medicine Michelle Telfer as a highly respected pediatrician who saves lives –…
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Doctor’s advocacy trumped duty to objectivity in court
The public should know why gender-affirming care became the dominant practice in Australia without good quality evidence to support it. Medicalised gender change for distressed minors, driven by puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, is experimental treatment. Since 2019, jurisdictions as different as Finland, Florida, Sweden and England have independently put these hormonal treatments to the…
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Judge critical of Michelle Telfer over gender guidelines, evidence
Judge Andrew Strum has criticised the evidence of gender medicine expert Dr Michelle Telfer and allowed publication of her name and of the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne following a landmark case. Australia’s foremost gender medicine expert and the lead author of the nation’s guidelines on gender-affirming care, Michelle Telfer, was excoriated by a Family Court…
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Exclusive: Why Wes Streeting changed his mind on cross-sex hormones
The evidence that shifted the Government’s position on providing the treatment to children is revealed here. It emerged last week that the health secretary was “actively reviewing” whether to restrict or ban the prescription of cross-sex hormones to children who want to transition to another gender. On 28 April, a group of clinical specialists was…