Tag: puberty-blockers
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Chronology of Burnie Library Forum Cancellation – Emails
Below are the details of our cancelled forum, originally scheduled for 21 March 2024 at the Burnie Library. The event was to present the latest developments from Europe regarding the use of puberty blockers and gender-affirming treatments in children and young people. It also included detailed information from the UK Government’s Cass Review, an independent…
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Forum: Puberty Blockers – The 21st Century Global Medical Scandal
Women Speak Tasmania recently organised a public forum at Burnie Library to discuss paediatric gender medicine and to provide parents with information about puberty blockers and related treatments. The event, scheduled for Thursday morning, was cancelled by the library on Monday — less than two hours into the first business day after the forum had…
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WPATH: Not Evidence-Based, Children at Risk
The recently released WPATH Files expose disturbing internal communications among clinicians responsible for the so-called “Standards of Care.” These exchanges show that WPATH is not a scientific or evidence-based organisation, but one driven by ideology and activism. WPATH and the Repetition of Medical Scandals History provides sobering lessons about what happens when ideology or medical…
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Analysis of the Leak Files from The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH)
The internal emails reveal serious ethical, medical, and scientific concerns within WPATH itself. Far from presenting a unified, evidence-based standard of care, these exchanges show members openly acknowledging the lack of evidence, the risks to young people, and the fact that they are making things up as they go. 1. Acknowledgement of Lack of Evidence…
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Puberty blocker and insurance bans are red flags for Premier Rockcliff on trans health care
Recent bans and restrictions on the use of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for treatment of gender dysphoria in minors in numerous European countries, along with changes to insurance cover for doctors in Australia, is a wake up call to Premier Rockcliff over trans child health care. Spokeswoman Isla MacGregor said “Women Speak Tasmania…
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The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak
Prisha Mosley was 17 when she was first given testosterone on a clinic in North Carolina, after she had declared to her parents that she was a boy. She had struggled through her teen years with anorexia and depression after a sexual assault. Luka Hein had both breast removed as a 16 year old on…
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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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When Children Say They’re Trans
Hormones? Surgery? The choices are fraught—and there are no easy answers. By Jesse Singal Claire is a 14-year-old girl with short auburn hair and a broad smile. She lives outside Philadelphia with her mother and father, both professional scientists. Claire can come across as an introvert, but she quickly opens up, and what seemed like shyness reveals…