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1 day 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 week 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 week 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?

1 week ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

On May 1, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its 409-page Gender Dysphoria Report outsourced to independent researchers. What follows is a lightly edited excerpt from the report’s discussion of key ethical questions raised by gender medicalisation of minors.

2 weeks ago | genderclinicnews.com | Bernard Lane

To block or not to block? Australia’s federal Health Minister Mark Butler sought urgent advice on the case for “a pause or ban” on puberty blockers. Citing new safety restrictions in the UK, Mr Butler’s office asked health bureaucrats last December for a briefing on “the weight of evidence in support of a pause or ban in the Australian context,” according to documents obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) law.