Bernard Lane

1 month ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

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1 month ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

Stop it nowA report revealing that Chile’s health authorities knew there was no good evidence for gender medicalisation of minors has been approved by a historic vote of the country’s Chamber of Deputies. The report from a special investigative commission of the chamber—the lower house of the Chilean Congress—calls for the immediate suspension of the government’s “Gender Identity Support Program (PAIG),” which refers children for hormonal treatment.

1 month ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

Harm cloaked in euphemismFrance | “You don’t cut off young women’s breasts based on feelings!” is the title of a petition to the French National Authority for Health, whose leaked draft treatment guideline would allow gender-distressed girls to undergo double mastectomies from the age of 16.

1 month ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

Our gender clinic is “one of the world’s best” and our interventions to help children with gender dysphoria “adhere to strict clinical governance standards.” Our treatment guideline has been “peer reviewed at the highest level, published in the Medical Journal of Australia[MJA] and adopted by healthcare providers across Australia and the globe.” “As a public institution we expect and welcome public scrutiny that is fair, objective and factual.” Such was the tone of the open letter issued by...

1 month ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

How is it that the untrustworthy treatment guidelines of the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne were approved by the hospital’s governance processes, endorsed by health departments and medical bodies across the nation and are still to this day used to guide clinical practice at virtually all of Australia’s public youth gender clinics?