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.
Dispute over blockers abandoned in Family Court, call for public enquiry
A dispute between the parents of a primary-school-age child over the use of puberty blockers has been suddenly settled when an expert witness’s recommendation of the use of the drugs was withdrawn.