Tag: WPATH
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ABC Reporting on ‘Anti-Trans’ Content: When Framing Goes Beyond the Evidence
The ABC has reported on a University of Melbourne study claiming a link between exposure to “anti-trans” content and mental health harms among transgender people. The subject is important. But so is the standard of evidence, particularly when a national broadcaster is reporting claims involving self-harm, suicidality and young people. The problem with the ABC…
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Request for review of Tasmanian Gender Service clinical pathways following new questions concerning WPATH guidance – Email to Bridget Archer
Email to the Tasmanian Minister for Health, Bridget Archer, dated 16 August 2026 Dear Minister Archer, I am writing on behalf of Women Speak Tasmania to ask you to reconsider the clinical governance and guidelines underpinning the Tasmanian Gender Service (TGS), following new developments concerning the evidentiary basis of guidance issued by the World Professional…
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Tasmania should review gender-care pathways as questions grow over WPATH evidence base
Women Speak Tasmania is calling on the Tasmanian Government to review the clinical pathways used by the Tasmanian Gender Service after new reporting about the evidentiary basis of WPATH guidance. According to The Australian on 15 August, lawyers for WPATH told a US court that statements in its Standards of Care are “opinions about what…
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Is Tasmania Acting Too Late to Protect Children?
Women Speak Tasmania raised serious questions with the Tasmanian Government in May about clinical governance, evidence and safeguards in the provision of puberty suppression and gender-affirming hormones to patients under 18. Three months later, new developments have made those questions more urgent. When governments are responsible for the care of children, waiting for greater certainty…
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Dangers of Gender Affirming Model and WPath – Letter to Simon Wood
Dear Simon, My name is xxxxxxxxx and as a resident of Bass I would like to congratulate you on your re-election as our representatives in the Tasmanian Parliament. It is my hope that you will continue to represent the interests of your constituents in these very challenging times. I would also like to use this…
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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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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 New Guidelines for Gender Medicine
WPATH WHISTLEBLOWERS SPEAK OUT 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 have today contacted the office of federal Health Minister Greg Hunt and Tasmanian Health Minister Jeremy Rockcliff and urged them to…