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Tag: medical transition

  • Teen Girls Access Double Mastectomies via Gender Clinic – Letter to Linton Besser/Media Watch

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    Letter sent to Linton Besser and Media Watch on 11 January 2026 Cc. Bernard Lane, Rachel Baxendale and Stephen Rice. Dear Media Watch/ Linton Besser, Western Australia gender clinic enables double mastectomies for teenage girls, secret document reveals, article by The Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/western-australia-gender-clinic-enables-double-mastectomies-for-teenage-girls-secret-document-reveals/news-story/dbbf2c69dffa3a75c1f4e2f18cb97f2c I refer to the above article, about the medical scandal of teenagers…

  • The Collapse of the Dutch Protocol: Why Puberty Blockers for Children Are Unnecessary

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    The so-called Dutch Protocol, first developed in the Netherlands in the 1990s, has been the foundation for prescribing puberty blockers to children diagnosed with gender dysphoria. For years, it was promoted internationally as a model of “best practice.” But the global picture today tells a very different story: one of growing restrictions, suspensions, and outright…

  • Analysis of Gender Questioning Children and Family Law: An Evolving Landscape

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    Introduction This paper provides an overview of the challenges faced by the family law profession in Australia when dealing with matters involving gender identity in children and adolescents. Drawing on recent research, medical reviews, and legal precedents, it highlights the contested nature of gender-affirming approaches, the risks of medical intervention, and the crucial role of…

  • Social contagion aspect of transgender movement needs more attention

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    The trans movement has a lot in common with other movements of mass social contagion. Unfortunately, the medical profession is not immune. According to some enthralled commentators, the ascension of Donald Trump to the US presidency has heralded the death of woke. However, news of its death in Australia is greatly exaggerated. The most bizarre symptom of…

  • Puberty Blockers Given Off Label at Tasmanian Gender Service

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    Information obtained under Right to Information on the Tasmanian Gender Service (TGS) confirms the need for the Health Minister Guy Barnett to conduct an urgent Inquiry into the TGS: standards of care, transparency of the agency and use of off label Puberty Blockers. Women Speak Tasmania have forwarded the RTI documents to Guy Barnett as…

  • The Cass Review: A Critical Commentary

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    The Cass Review has laid bare a systemic lack of robust clinical evidence supporting the so-called “gender-affirming model” of care for children. Unlike the politically charged narratives that have dominated the debate, this comprehensive review puts the welfare of children first—prioritising medical knowledge, ethical practice, and reason over ideology. Puberty Blockers: An Unproven Experiment on…

  • LGB Tasmania funded the ‘Let Kids be Kids’ billboard in Hobart

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    A war of words between groups at the opposite ends of the transgender debate has escalated, with both groups launching campaigns to fund billboards promoting their views on the issue across the state. LGB Tasmania, which opposes medical transitions for people under the age of 18, claimed it has booked another billboard in the Launceston…

  • Stop the Social and Medical Transition of Vulnerable Children

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    Women Speak Tasmania and LGB Tasmania members kicked off an awareness raising campaign “Let Kids be Kids” Currently in this era of ‘gender affirmation’, schools are taking an active role in socially transitioning children with gender dysphoria, by encouraging the changing of names, pronouns, uniform and allowing them to enter single sex spaces and sports…