Tag: gender-affirming model
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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…
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Call on Minister for Health to Urgently Review Tasmanian Gender Service Treatment Guidelines
Following recent statements by Dr Marci Bowers and Dr Erica Anderson, two top US gender medical providers and board members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), we are calling on the Tasmanian Health Minister Jeremy Rockcliff to implement a review of current treatment guidelines used by the Tasmanian Gender Service for the…
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Inquiry into Tasmania Gender Service – Letter to Children’s Commissioner Leanne McLean
Exchange of emails between Isla MacGregor, member of Women Speak Tasmania and Children’s Commissioner Leanne McLean Letter from Isla MacGregor 18.08.22 Dear Leanne, Re: Inquiry into Tasmania Gender Service following closure of Tavistock Gender Clinic Women Speak Tasmania are writing to you to request that you urgently conduct an independent inquiry into the current “gender…
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Primum non nocere – An Open Letter to Australia’s Doctors
Dear Doctor, In Australia, we have a clear template of the standard referral pathway. General practitioners refer to specialists, who refer to sub-specialists. Whenever we feel we need a more specialised opinion than our own we refer the patient to a colleague along this pathway. We can often choose to whom we refer; we may…
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Call for New Guidelines for Gender Medicine
WPATH WHISTLEBLOWERS SPEAK OUT Following recent statements by Dr Marci Bowers and Dr Erica Anderson, two top US gender medical providers and board members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), we have today contacted the office of federal Health Minister Greg Hunt and Tasmanian Health Minister Jeremy Rockcliff and urged them to…
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Protest in Support of Tasmanian Parliamentary Inquiry into Medical and Surgical Intervention for Children with Gender Dysphoria.
Members of Women Speak Tasmania are protesting today at 12.45 pm outside the Tasmanian Gender Services premises at 60 Collins Street. The protest is part of an international movement to draw attention to the unethical medicalisation of children with gender dysphoria. WST, in partnership with International Partners for Ethical Care (PEC), will be protesting with…
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Push on Politicians to Back Federal Child Trans Health Inquiry
Women Speak Tasmania has recently backed calls for a federal parliamentary inquiry into the models of care, including medical and surgical interventions, currently being offered to children and young people presenting at gender services in Australia. The ‘gender affirming’ approach adopted by such as the Gender Clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital for Children has…