Tag: Tasmania Gender Service
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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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Call for Children’s Commissioner to Conduct Inquiry into Tasmanian Gender Service following closure of Tavistock
Women Speak Tasmania have written to the Tasmanian Children’s Commissioner urging her to establish an independent inquiry into the current “gender affirmation” model of treatment being used by the Tasmanian Gender Service for the treatment of minors struggling with gender dysphoria. WST wrote to Leanne Mclean to advise her of the recently announced closure of…
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Inquiry into Tasmania Gender Service – Letter to Children’s Commissioner Leanne McLean
Exchange of emails between Isla MacGregor, member of Women Speak Tasmania and Children’s Commissioner Leanne McLean Letter from Isla MacGregor 18.08.22 Dear Leanne, Re: Inquiry into Tasmania Gender Service following closure of Tavistock Gender Clinic Women Speak Tasmania are writing to you to request that you urgently conduct an independent inquiry into the current “gender…
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Protest in Support of Tasmanian Parliamentary Inquiry into Medical and Surgical Intervention for Children with Gender Dysphoria.
Members of Women Speak Tasmania are protesting today at 12.45 pm outside the Tasmanian Gender Services premises at 60 Collins Street. The protest is part of an international movement to draw attention to the unethical medicalisation of children with gender dysphoria. WST, in partnership with International Partners for Ethical Care (PEC), will be protesting with…
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Health Minister Sarah Courtney Must Review Use of Puberty Blockers
Women Speak Tasmania today contacted the Health Minister Sarah Courtney’s office to seek an urgent review of the treatment guidelines used by the Tasmanian Gender Service following from last week’s UK High Court decision in the case of Keira Bell and Mrs A. “The decision determined that experimental treatments for children and young people with…