Tag: Australia
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Call on Health Minister to defer debate on Conversion Bill and back push for National Inquiry
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) have called on the Health Minister Guy Barnett to defer debate on The Justice Miscellaneous (Conversion Practices) Bill 2024 and back the call from Dr Philip Morris, President of the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists (NAPP) for an independent investigation into treatments being used for vulnerable children struggling with gender dysphoria. WSTs call…
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Opinion: The Cass Review
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in ArticlesPersonal analysis of The Cass Review findings The Cass Review has laid bare a systematic lack of proper clinical evidence for the use of the ‘ gender affirming model’. Unlike what was discovered thanks to the publication of the WPATH files, the Cass Review puts the welfare of children as paramount and leaves the tropes…
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Anthony Albanese under pressure to probe puberty blocker harms
Anthony Albanese is being urged to replicate a landmark British review into interventionist medical treatments that enable young children to change gender, amid increasing concern that puberty blockers may cause serious harm. The National Association of Practising Psychiatrists has urged the federal government to facilitate a national independent investigation into the use of treatments including puberty blockers…
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Women’s team with five trans players dominates women’s football tournament
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An amateur women’s football team featuring five transgender players has ignited controversy after absolutely dominating a women’s competition in Sydney. A Sydney women’s soccer team which features five transgender players has sparked controversy after dominating the North West Sydney League pre-season Beryl Ackroyd Cup. The Flying Bats Women’s Soccer Club claimed the $1000 prize after…
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Open Letter to the Australian Human Rights Commission
Is the Australian Human Rights Commission conducting a witch-hunt? We are a group of civil society organisations, health practitioners, researchers, lawyers, writers and individuals, people of faith and atheists, from across the political spectrum. We are writing to express our deep alarm at the Australian Human Rights Commission’s current project aimed at “mapping” alleged threats…
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Rebuttal to Four Corners, BLOCKED: The battle over youth gender care
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Dianna T Kenny PhD On 10 July the ABC Four Corners presented a program entitled, “BLOCKED”2 about gender dysphoria and its treatment in young people. I was so concerned by the coverage that I felt it incumbent upon me to provide a more balanced account of the current state of research in the care of gender…
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The gender issue deserves urgent and open debate
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in NewsParenting has never been easy and the onslaught of competing pressures vying for the attention of impressionable young minds makes ti more difficult still. For many, navigating the highly charged terrain of puberty represents a high-water mark ni the parental challenge. As we now know, a potent new factor has been added to the mix.…
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Year 7 students are urged to question their gender identity as part of a ‘well-being’ program – parents left fuming
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in NewsAustralian students as young as 12 have been encouraged to explore new gender identities without their parents knowledge. The move is part of a well-being program for students running in multiple states to help bolster their mental health. But some teachers and students claim that ‘well-being coordinators’ are going too far. In one example a year seven…
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Judges warned of ‘worst medical scandal in 100 years’
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in NewsFamily Court judges are being urged to consider new evidence of the effects of hormone treatments and puberty blockers on young Australians that refutes a gender-affirming model of care. The paper documents in forensic detail a lack of clinical consensus on the concept of gender dysphoria, the diagnostic process or even whether a diagnosis is…
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‘We have lost our child to this insidious ideology’
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in NewsAmid a raging public battle, thousands of parents across Australia are privately struggling with a transgender culture that has their children in its grip. Lost and angry, they’re ready to speak out. It was a sunny weekend afternoon four years ago when Elizabeth discovered her 13-year-old daughter was binding her developing breasts with packing tape.…