Bernard Lane

Sydney

Freelance Journalist at GenderClinicNews

Journalist covering the international debate over youth gender clinics | May contain traces of poetry | Email [email protected]

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Free to be who you weren't

4 weeks ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

Trans away the gayUnited Kingdom | Former UK MP Chris Davies delivered a sharp dissent from a gender ideology motion at the Liberal Democrat party conference in Harrogate last weekend. “Conversion therapy was used to try and persuade gays and lesbians that they were really straight,” Mr Davies said.
Brand new?

1 month ago | genderclinicnews.com | Richard Byng |Bernard Lane

Make it newThe National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) says it has been asked to develop a new guideline for youth gender dysphoria rather than an update of the low-quality 2018 document from the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne. “NHMRC, as an independent statutory agency, has been tasked with developing new independent, evidence-based guidelines.
They were warned

1 month ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

The new S2k German-language guideline—on Gender Incongruence and Gender Dysphoria in Childhood and Adolescence: Diagnosis and Treatment—has been finalised and published. It has undergone a few changes since the draft release in March 2024, but most of these adjustments have been rather minor.
Outlier

1 month ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

Germany’s new “affirmation-only” treatment guideline for the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones goes beyond the weak evidence base, may lead to vulnerable young people suffering harm and should be withdrawn, according to prominent child and adolescent psychiatrist Professor Florian Zepf.
False promise

1 month ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

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Safety gap

1 month ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

Known unknowns The rationale for a research project linked to Australia’s most influential gender clinic admits that “critical gaps” in the scientific understanding of puberty blockers “undermine their safe and effective use.” This warning, as yet unreported in mainstream media, is at odds with widely publicised claims that puberty blockers—routinely prescribed off-label by Australia’s gender clinics to stop the normal sexual development of children as young as 9-13—are safe and beneficial,...
No room for sex

1 month ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

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Counter directive

2 months ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

A government ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for new patients in Queensland, Australia, is reportedly under challenge from within the system by the statewide Queensland Children’s Gender Service.
Speak, Hippocrates!

2 months ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

Drugs of desireFrance | The centre-right French newspaper, Figaro, has devoted a full page to a new book, The Sermon of Hippocrates: Medicine in the Grip of Identity Ideologies. Its authors, clinical psychologist Dr Céline Masson and child psychiatrist Dr Caroline Eliacheff, are co-founders of the gender medicine watchdog group the Little Mermaid.
Gender stronghold in revolt

2 months ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

President Javier Milei of Argentina, the nation that claimed to be the first in the world to enshrine the concept of gender identity liberated from biology, has issued a decree to prohibit gender medicalisation of minors.