Tag: gender-affirming model
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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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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…