Tag: gender-affirming model
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Analysis of The “41% Study” and Suicide in Transgender People
One of the most widely quoted claims in debates about gender identity and medical treatment is that “41% of transgender people attempt suicide.” This figure comes from a 2014 report titled Suicide Attempts among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults, based on the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS). For more than a decade, this statistic has…
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Doctor’s Case for Science in Teen Gender Dysphoria Care
Riittakerttu Kaltiala didn’t know how divisive transgender politics was until she called out the use of puberty blockers Finnish psychiatrist Riittakerttu Kaltiala holds a unique and important position in the treatment of gender dysphoria. She has had a front-row seat for the introduction and subsequent rollback of gender-affirming care in her native Finland across the…
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‘The situation has totally changed’: Finnish expert to talk at Australian gender dysphoria conference
Adolescent psychiatrist Riittakerttu Kaltiala has seen an improvement in treatment under new guidelines in Finland, where puberty blockers, cross hormones and surgery are no longer the norm. A leading adolescent psychiatrist says the treatment of young people with gender dysphoria in her homeland has “totally changed” since winding back the practice of gender-affirming care. Finnish…
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How the gender affirming care model failed our families
For years, the gender-affirming care model has shaped the treatment of kids presenting with gender dysphoria – no questions asked. Now, these parents want answers. It was in early April that Richard*, a dad from NSW’s Hunter Valley, first heard about a 58,000-word judgment handed down by Justice Andrew Strum in the Family Court. The…
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Judge’s ruling could rewrite nation’s gender medicine
Could it be that a judge – not a doctor – is about to change the face of gender medicine in Australia? Three significant Australian legal cases took out of the court’s hands the decision of whether a young person could be prescribed gender-affirming medicine. The Full Court in Re Jamie, in 2013, established parents…
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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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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 – Open Letter to Australian Health Bodies
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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As Mel’s gender ‘ricocheted’, she went under a surgeon’s knife
A woman is suing the doctors who performed her gender treatment, claiming she could not have given informed consent. A young woman who thought for years she was non-binary or a transgender man is suing two doctors and Monash Health for negligence, claiming gender treatment that included having both breasts surgically removed had caused her…