Tag: puberty-blockers
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The Cass Review significance
Rodney Croome has failed to grasp the significance of the Cass Review ratings of gender clinics in Australia outlined in Ben Seeder’s important investigative article (Examiner 16 June 2024). Dr. Cass alarming ratings on the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne have direct implications for service delivery at the Tasmanian Gender Service. In 2019 the National Association…
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Tasmanian minister ‘prefers’ national inquiry into child gender clinics
A senior state cabinet member has written to the federal government asking for it to consider staging a national review into public medical services for children experiencing gender dysphoria. Health Minister Guy Barnett confirmed he wrote to his federal counterpart, Mark Butler, this week, requesting that he consider a review of gender clinics, following the…
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Inquiring mind
Tasmania’s Liberal government has become the first Australian administration to recommend a national review of public gender services for minors. The island state’s Health Minister, Guy Barnett, who is also Attorney-General, said he had written to his federal counterpart—Australia’s Labor Party Health Minister, Mark Butler—to ask him to consider the idea. On Thursday, Mr Barnett…
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Banned drug leuprorelin acetate still being prescribed in Tasmania.
The drug leuprorelin acetate, now banned in the UK from use as a puberty blocker, is still being prescribed by the Tasmanian Gender Service (TGS). Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Italy have also implemented bans on the use of puberty blockers for under 18’s because of risks to patient safety. The bans have been implemented following…
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Puberty Blockers given off label at Tasmanian Gender Service
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…
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Letters to Tasmania Health Minister Guy Barnett
WST members campaigned for the safeguarding of children and the banning of Puberty blockers in children. We also request a proper inquiry into Tasmania Gender clinics Below are our correspondence 05th May 2024 Dear Health Minister Guy Barnett, I am writing in regards to the RTI Documents and Cass Report on Australian gender clinics that…
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Landmark British report offers insights for Tasmania’s transgender debate
A tectonic shift is taking place overseas in the debate over how to treat children that question their gender identity, and there are plenty of lessons to be learned in Tasmania. The UK government commissioned a review into the treatment of gender-diverse children back in 2020, and its full report by UK paediatrician Dr Hilary…
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Opinion: The Cass Review
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in ArticlesPersonal analysis of The Cass Review findings The Cass Review has laid bare a systematic lack of proper clinical evidence for the use of the ‘ gender affirming model’. Unlike what was discovered thanks to the publication of the WPATH files, the Cass Review puts the welfare of children as paramount and leaves the tropes…