Tag: puberty-blockers
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US Health Swears Off Gender Meds for Kids
America’s federal health authorities have aligned with Europe’s more cautious position on care for gender-distressed minors On May 1, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its 409-page Gender Dysphoria Report outsourced to independent researchers. What follows is a lightly edited excerpt from the report’s discussion of key ethical questions raised by gender medicalisation…
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Lost in Transition
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in NewsGender 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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Is this the beginning of the end for puberty blockers?
Is this the beginning of the end in Australia for the experiment of using puberty blockers for gender-incongruent children? It began as a compassionate solution to the difficulties that trans people had in being accepted as the sex with which they identify. A Dutch doctor came up with a solution to block puberty, so a…
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Top children’s hospital silent on judge’s criticism of gender care guidelines
The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne has refused to respond to a Family Court judge’s criticism of its care standards for children presenting with gender concerns. One of the nation’s top children’s hospitals has refused to publicly defend its own treatment standards for patients questioning their gender, following calls for the “concerning” guidelines to be repealed…
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Judge lashes child gender-medicine experts in blow for clinic
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in NewsOne of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts has been ruled to have misled the Family Court when giving evidence to support a mother who wished to prescribe her child puberty blockers. One of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts has been ruled to have misled the Family Court when giving evidence to support a…
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Health Minister Mark Butler congratulated on inquiry into gender medicine for children
Women Speak Tasmania congratulates the federal Health Minister Mark Butler on his decision to establish an inquiry into gender medicine guidelines for young people suffering gender distress. Mark Butler’s decision comes in the wake of the recent whistleblower allegations about the rogue Cairns Sexual Health Service that have prompted the Queensland Government to suspend the…
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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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Queensland Government pauses access to puberty blockers
Queensland has put a temporary hold on children accessing puberty blockers after concerns were raised over a young child accessing the service. Health minister Tim Nicholls confirmed an independent review into puberty blockers will be carried out after a 12-year-old was prescribe a puberty blocker by the Cairns Sexual Health Service in May 2024. Mr…
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Health Minister Jacquie Petrusma called on to follow Queensland Premier’s ban on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones
Today, Premier of Queensland, David Crisafulli announced that puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for minors with gender distress will be banned. Premier David Crisafulli’s actions following revelations that Cairns Sexual Health Service was providing puberty blockers to children as young as 12 years old without parental consent or any oversight. In light of such…