NHMRC Consultation
We submitted a response to the National Health and Medical Research Council/Medical Research Future Fund's Statement on Sex, Gender, Variations of Sex Characteristics, and Sexual Orientation in Health and Medical Research during their public consultation phase.
Open Letter from Health Professionals Expressing Concern Around NSW Framework for Gender Treatment
In an open letter to NSW MPs, more than 35 psychiatrists, psychologists and doctors criticised the government’s decision to appoint the Sax Institute to undertake a review which formed the basis of the NSW framework, questioning the “validity and reliability” of the evidence they used to support the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children and young people.
Dr Jillian Spencer, Queensland child psychiatrist, advocates for caution in treatment of gender care
Dr Jillian Spencer, a senior staff specialist in the Queensland Children’s Hospital’s consultation liaison psychiatry team, was suspended from clinical duties in mid-April after she raised concerns around puberty blocker use without an appropriate mental health assessment.
'Affirmation Generation’: a new, must watch doco
Detransitioners Michelle, Laura, Cat, David, Joel and Abel tell the stories of their gender distress, transgender medicalization, and subsequent detransition. Without diagnostic clarity or mental health evaluations, their doctors quickly affirmed them as “transgender,” and mindlessly ushered them along the path of medical transition. (The “gender-affirming care” is the only treatment recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.) These young people were harmed irrevocably by the doctors they trusted. AFFIRMATION GENERATION demonstrates how the “one-size-fits-all” medicalization – the “gender-affirming care” – has failed these patients.