Tag: puberty-blockers
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Judges warned of ‘worst medical scandal in 100 years’
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in NewsFamily Court judges are being urged to consider new evidence of the effects of hormone treatments and puberty blockers on young Australians that refutes a gender-affirming model of care. The paper documents in forensic detail a lack of clinical consensus on the concept of gender dysphoria, the diagnostic process or even whether a diagnosis is…
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TikTok takes on transformative role
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in NewsLawrence Bing sits in front of the camera with his eyes closed and smiles nervously into a mirror as his mother undoes his chest covering to perform his “top surgery reveal”. He looks ecstatic as he opens his eyes and sees the results, faint fresh scars across a chest that once held his breasts. The…
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‘We have lost our child to this insidious ideology’
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in NewsAmid a raging public battle, thousands of parents across Australia are privately struggling with a transgender culture that has their children in its grip. Lost and angry, they’re ready to speak out. It was a sunny weekend afternoon four years ago when Elizabeth discovered her 13-year-old daughter was binding her developing breasts with packing tape.…
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Gender questioning children and family law: an evolving landscape
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in ResourcesAcademic paper by Ms Belle Lane, Barrister, Victorian Bar dated May 2023
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The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak
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in NewsPrisha 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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NSW Westmead Children’s Hospital Study points to urgent review of Tasmanian Gender Service Guidelines
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Premier Jeremy Rockcliff needs to take urgent action on the findings of a study covered in The Australian today including on the front page Doctor scrutiny on gender clinic reveals legal, safety fears. The Tasmanian Gender Service has come under pressure from numerous groups in Tasmania in past years over its ‘affirmative only approach’, the…
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An Open Letter to Australia’s Doctors
Dear Doctor, In Australia, we have a clear template of the standard referral pathway. General practitioners refer to specialists, who refer to sub-specialists. Whenever we feel we need a more specialised opinion than our own we refer the patient to a colleague along this pathway. We can often choose to whom we refer; we may…
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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…