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The Parliamentary website cites Mark Butler, our Minister for Health & Aged Care, Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament:

• LLB(Hons) (University of Adelaide).

• MIR (Deakin University).

• BA(Juris) (University of Adelaide).

• Union official from 1992 to 2007

That’s it, that’s all!

A Union official for fifteen years, never had a proper job.

Obviously has zero exposure to Health and Aged Care yet charged with making a decision of monumental importance impacting the welfare of children.

It’s not difficult to guess who advised him.

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The problem with the RACPs advice is that it comes from a small interest group in the RACP which is dominated by the self appointed experts who will continue to support Gender Affirmation until their dying days.

It is a living example of the left’s march through the institutions.

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The resulting three-page brief cites the RACP advice under the heading, “Possible harm caused to trans kids through public inquiries.”

I hope this becomes widely known and the people who have had their kids treated so far find out they've been given these drastic interventions because...because it was too "harmful" to check if they actually did have benefits outweighing the risks.

How long did it take for lobotomies and thalidomide to stop in Australia?

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While wrestling with the challenges faced by those children who were unfortunate enough to be ‘born in the wrong body’, there exists other health problems affecting our children that deserve a mention.

Herewith a few:

• The death rate among Australian indigenous children age 0-4 is double that of their non indigenous counterparts

• The suicide rate of young indigenous children is four times that of their non indigenous counterparts. In one remote community in the country's Kimberley region, the rate is estimated to be seven times the national average

• The rate of Acute post-streptococcal Glomerulonephritis (a serious kidney disease) is some twenty times that of their non-indigenous counterparts.

• The rate of Acute Rheumatic fever (a serious disease affecting the heart valves) in Indigenous children is twelve times that of their non-indigenous counterparts and the death rate for the condition is near twenty times that of their non-indigenous counterparts.

• The rate of type ll Diabetes in indigenous children is 8-10 times that of their non-indigenous counterparts.

• Anaemia in Indigenous children is orders of magnitude greater than their non-indigenous counterparts

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Butler. The bloke whose definition of a woman is 'depends on the circumstance'.

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