Tag: Justice Andrew Strum
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Royal Children’s board must not ignore judge’s trans case findings
After an experienced and highly respected judge has so strongly criticised the hospital’s chief of medicine, one might expect the board to announce it was treating the issues raised with the utmost seriousness. Justice Andrew Strum, who recently decided the case of Re Devin, was so concerned about the evidence he heard from a clinician…
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Retired judge Steven Strickland says key puberty blocker case ‘may have been different’ in light of new evidence
A judge who helped decide a landmark case giving parents – not courts – the authority to approve puberty blockers for their children says the outcome might have been different if today’s medical evidence had been available. A judge who helped decide a landmark case in 2013 giving parents, rather than courts, the authority to…
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Children’s hospital backs Michelle Telfer after judge’s criticism
The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne has championed its chief of medicine Michelle Telfer after a judge found she gave misleading evidence in support of a mother who wanted her child to be prescribed puberty blockers. The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne has championed its chief of medicine Michelle Telfer as a highly respected pediatrician who saves lives –…
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Doctor’s advocacy trumped duty to objectivity in court
The public should know why gender-affirming care became the dominant practice in Australia without good quality evidence to support it. Medicalised gender change for distressed minors, driven by puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, is experimental treatment. Since 2019, jurisdictions as different as Finland, Florida, Sweden and England have independently put these hormonal treatments to the…
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Judge critical of Michelle Telfer over gender guidelines, evidence
Judge Andrew Strum has criticised the evidence of gender medicine expert Dr Michelle Telfer and allowed publication of her name and of the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne following a landmark case. Australia’s foremost gender medicine expert and the lead author of the nation’s guidelines on gender-affirming care, Michelle Telfer, was excoriated by a Family Court…
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ABC Schtum on Strum
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by Vera Figner Back in 2022, when Paul Barry had a go at his fellow-journos at the ABC for not reporting on the closure of the UK’s Tavistock youth gender clinic, one Julia Holman – who was at that stage the executive producer at RN Breakfast – commented: We’ve had plenty of occasions since then to point out things…