Tag: gender-affirming model
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Does the gender-affirming model provide trans youth the healthcare they need? There are good reasons to think it doesn’t
Over the last 10 to 15 years, the number of children and adolescents seeking medical help for gender dysphoria has rapidly increased in Australia. In the context of uncertainty over how to respond to this phenomenon, the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for Trans and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents (ASOCTG) was developed by an interdisciplinary team of…
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Lost in Transition
Gender affirming care to treat children with dysphoria is discredited overseas yet routine here. Trans, by its nature, ia a world where appearances differ from reality. After years of the activist slogan that “trans women are women”, Britain’s highest court ruled in April that, under eqquality law, a woman is a biological female. In a…
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Questions regarding The Tasmania Gender Service – Letter to Jacquie Petrusma
Letter sent to Tasmania Minister for Health Jacquie Petrusma on 31 March 2025 Dear Minister Jacquie Petrusma, Re: Questions regarding The Tasmanian Gender Service I am writing to you as a follow up from our meeting on 18th March confirming our questions to you about the Tasmania Gender Service and some additional question Q1. As…
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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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Associated Risks with Current Gender Affirming Care Model – Letter to Jacquie Petrusma
Dear Minister Jacquie Petrusma, Re: Request for meeting to discuss the risks associated with the current gender-affirming care model for children in Tasmania. I am writing to you in light of recent developments regarding the use of puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria. As you may know, the UK government recently made its ban…
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WPATH: Not Evidence-Based, Children at Risk
The recently released WPATH Files expose disturbing internal communications among clinicians responsible for the so-called “Standards of Care.” These exchanges show that WPATH is not a scientific or evidence-based organisation, but one driven by ideology and activism. WPATH and the Repetition of Medical Scandals History provides sobering lessons about what happens when ideology or medical…
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The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak
Prisha Mosley was 17 when she was first given testosterone on a clinic in North Carolina, after she had declared to her parents that she was a boy. She had struggled through her teen years with anorexia and depression after a sexual assault. Luka Hein had both breast removed as a 16 year old on…
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Doctor scrutiny on gender clinic reveals legal, safety fears.
Doctors treating children at a major public hospital gender clinic have questioned the basis of the ‘gender-affirming’ approach in medicine. Senior physicians at the NSW Children’s Hospital Westmead’s gender clinic have studied the physical and mental health of 79 patients in a rare academic study of the outcomes of children who presented with gender distress…
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Who Speaks for Children? Commissioner Called to Support Gender Service Inquiry
In August 2022, Women Speak Tasmania wrote to Leanne McLean, Tasmania’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, calling for an independent inquiry into the treatment model being used by the Tasmanian Gender Service. This request followed the high-profile closure of England’s Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service, after an ongoing review by Dr Hillary Cass found the…