Tag: Tasmania
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Calls for Commonwealth Inquiry into Gender Clinics
In response to WST correspondence with Health Minister Guy Barnett, we are pleased that the Tasmanian Liberal Government is the first Government in Australia to back a Commonwealth inquiry into gender clinics and their guidelines in response to release of England’s groundbreaking Cass Review. Spokesperson Dr Elizabeth Caballero Pastor said, ‘While our initial request to…
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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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Letter to Jo Palmer about the dangers of gender ideology at schools
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WST member sent a letter to Education Minister Jo Palmer about the impacts of social transition in schools, the role of social media in rapid onset gender dysphoria and safety bathroom policy Contents of the letter… Dear Jo Palmer, I’m writing this letter to make you aware of the increasingly troubled teaching of gender ideology…
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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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First, do not harm
I could not agree more with Rodney Croome (Mercury 17 April) that ‘no one should have to endure being told they are fundamentally broken’. But, equally, I would have thought that it is no great leap for Rodney Croome to understand that no child is born in the wrong body, that no child is broken.…