This is the front page of today's Australian on how "judgment day" has arrived for 'gender-affirming care':
Today, the reckoning for those involved in the irreversible damage of vulnerable gender distressed children and young people came one step closer.
In an extraordinary fall from grace, Australia's leading youth gender clinician and clinic have been exposed for putting ideology before evidence-based medicine.
- In April, Family Court Judge Andrew Strum excoriated Dr Michelle Telfer for giving misleading evidence in support of puberty blockers for a 12-year-old.
- The judge removed custody from the mother and blocked treatment, citing a lack of formal diagnosis after six years of care at Royal Children’s Hospital.
- Telfer was rebuked for comparing restrictions on gender treatments to Nazi oppression.
- The court also questioned the national gender treatment guidelines she authored, arguing they ignore the inability of children to consent to life-altering decisions.
- Initially anonymised, Telfer was publicly named after The Australian successfully petitioned the court, citing public interest.
The exposure of Telfer as an activist and the criticism of the Royal Children's Hospital treatment guidelines (used by gender clinics around the country) is a huge moment in our fight to end the harmful medical transitioning of children and young people. Not to mention the 12-year-old boy who was spared irreparable damage.
And the good news is, the pressure is mounting on our governments to take action. For example, just this year:
- 100+ doctors, academics, MPs, lawyers, advocates and detransitioners signed our open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calling for an urgent national independent inquiry and a halt on all youth gender treatments, with Health Minister Mark Butler subsequently announcing a review of the national treatment guidelines
- The LNP Queensland Government paused the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to new patients under 18 pending an independent review
- A review was ordered of South Australia's gender clinic after almost two dozen children were prescribed gender treatments without prior psychiatric assessment in line with government guidelines.
- Brave Victorian detransitioner Mel Jefferies launched her legal action against the doctors who performed her gender treatment — including cutting off her healthy breasts — which she claims caused her "significant harm"
- More and more medical professionals, legal experts, MPs and parents have been speaking out against transgender treatments for children and young people
The ideology of Australian gender clinicians and clinics has been exposed, and it's high time our leaders stopped politicising this issue and took action.
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