Tag: transgender
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Analysis of the AusPATH / RCH Gender Standards of Care for Trans and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents (2023)
The guidelines, developed by the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Gender Service and endorsed by the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health (AusPATH), are intended to provide a clinical framework for supporting trans and gender diverse children and adolescents across Australia. They are directed at health professionals — paediatricians, endocrinologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, GPs, nurses, fertility specialists…
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Analysis of Transgender Athlete Policies in Sport: Balancing Fairness and Inclusion
Fundamental Disjunction in Policy Approaches This analysis highlights a central divide in global sports policies: the tension between trans inclusivity and ensuring a level playing field for female athletes. Historically, many sports organisations assumed that testosterone suppression would adequately mitigate the performance advantage of male-to-female transgender athletes. Guidelines often specified testosterone thresholds as a measure…
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Open Letter to the Australian Human Rights Commission
Is the Australian Human Rights Commission conducting a witch-hunt? We are a group of civil society organisations, health practitioners, researchers, lawyers, writers and individuals, people of faith and atheists, from across the political spectrum. We are writing to express our deep alarm at the Australian Human Rights Commission’s current project aimed at “mapping” alleged threats…
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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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Tasmania’s The Examiner newspaper parts ways with editor in wake of fake trans incident letter
The editor at the centre of a faked account of a man entering female change rooms at a public pool being printed in a major Tasmanian newspaper has parted ways with the publication. Mark Westfield has told the ABC he is no longer the editor of The Examiner newspaper, just days after explaining he did not have…
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Women Speak Tasmania transgender forum angers: Charles Wooley opinion
I DECIPHERED a new acronym this week. TERF; trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Stay with me. Yes, I know many of you find this stuff irritating because it only seems to footer in the sidelines of history when the main game right now is will China invade Taiwan and what will ScoMo take to Glasgow, if he…
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Women Speak Tasmania forum to go ahead despite public backlash
A GROUP that likens transgenderism to a “cult” and a “social contagion” is holding a public forum at Hobart Town Hall. Women Speak Tasmania plans to hold its event on November 27 despite public backlash, with 18 people writing letters of complaint to Hobart City Council. One of the speakers will be Hobart sociologist Geoff…
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Couple fined after police find both with child exploitation images
A 30-year-old woman going through a gender change and her 23-year-old male partner have each been convicted of possessing child exploitation material. Anna Koizumi Umpisa Simmons appeared in the Burnie Magistrate’s Court on Monday after pleading guilty to one count of possessing child exploitation material. Magistrate Leanne Topfer fined Simmons $500 plus court costs, but…