The Australian Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay has nominated Dr Michelle Telfer for a Human Rights Awards for her 'advocacy for trans and gender-diverse young people'.
This said ‘advocacy’ is inappropriate, not evidence based and is being systematically withdrawn as an acceptable intervention in children in most developed countries.
The outcome following gender transition in children is typically a ‘honeymoon period’ of five to ten years followed by a life of regret and misery.
I reference a few (of the many) long-term studies of the miserable long term outcome for those poor souls who put their hand up for ‘gender transition’
1. Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons in Sweden (1973–2023)
• Key Finding: Individuals who underwent sex reassignment surgery exhibited substantially higher risks of mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric conditions compared to the general population.
2. Suicide Mortality Among Adolescents in Finland (1996–2019)
• Key Finding: Gender dysphoria alone did not predict mortality or suicide among adolescents referred to gender clinics. Psychiatric comorbidities were the primary predictors of mortality & medical gender reassignment didn’t mitigate suicide risk.
3. Somatic Morbidity and Cause of Death in Denmark (1978–2010)
• Key Finding: Among individuals who underwent SRS, somatic morbidity increased from 19.1% pre-surgery to 23.2% post-surgery, with a mortality rate of 9.6%. The average age at death was 53.5 years.
4. Transition as Treatment: The Best Studies Show the Worst Outcomes
• Key Findings: Total mortality was 51% higher than in the general population, mainly from suicide, AIDS, CVS diseases, drug abuse and unknown causes
. . . . . . . Surely Ms Finlay could find a more deserving candidate for the Human Rights award than Dr Telfer
How on earth can a reviewer elect to be anonymous? All of the 'peer reviewers' who voted against this article should be named, as well as those who supported its publication. Perhaps TEMU could get away with anonymous reviews, but a medical journal? Very suss indeed.
I just came across this study that I haven’t seen before.
Makes one wonder how the brave souls at RCH can do what they do!
. . .Long-Term Follow-Up of Individuals Undergoing Sex-Reassignment Surgery: Somatic Morbidity and Cause of Death Sex Med March 2016
Studies of mortality in transsexuals have suggested an increased mortality risk compared with controls, for example:
Swedish study of 324 MtF and FtM individuals after SRS (follow-up = 11.4 years) found that the all-cause mortality rate was three times higher in this cohort compared with controls.
A Dutch long-term follow-up study of 966 MtF and 365 FtM individuals (follow-up = 18.5 years), a 51% higher mortality rate was found in MtF subjects compared with the general population.10 For FtM subjects, no increased mortality was found compared with the general population.
A Dutch study of 1,109 individuals receiving HT found no increased mortality overall, but in MtF subjects 25 to 39 years old, mortality was significantly increased because of suicide, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, CVD, drug abuse, and unknown causes.31 The only Danish study on transsexualism conducted thus far, which included 37 individuals, reported three deaths of 29 reassigned MtF individuals and no deaths of 8 FtM individuals studied from 1956 through 1978.
The Australian Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay has nominated Dr Michelle Telfer for a Human Rights Awards for her 'advocacy for trans and gender-diverse young people'.
This said ‘advocacy’ is inappropriate, not evidence based and is being systematically withdrawn as an acceptable intervention in children in most developed countries.
The outcome following gender transition in children is typically a ‘honeymoon period’ of five to ten years followed by a life of regret and misery.
I reference a few (of the many) long-term studies of the miserable long term outcome for those poor souls who put their hand up for ‘gender transition’
1. Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons in Sweden (1973–2023)
• Key Finding: Individuals who underwent sex reassignment surgery exhibited substantially higher risks of mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric conditions compared to the general population.
2. Suicide Mortality Among Adolescents in Finland (1996–2019)
• Key Finding: Gender dysphoria alone did not predict mortality or suicide among adolescents referred to gender clinics. Psychiatric comorbidities were the primary predictors of mortality & medical gender reassignment didn’t mitigate suicide risk.
3. Somatic Morbidity and Cause of Death in Denmark (1978–2010)
• Key Finding: Among individuals who underwent SRS, somatic morbidity increased from 19.1% pre-surgery to 23.2% post-surgery, with a mortality rate of 9.6%. The average age at death was 53.5 years.
4. Transition as Treatment: The Best Studies Show the Worst Outcomes
• Key Findings: Total mortality was 51% higher than in the general population, mainly from suicide, AIDS, CVS diseases, drug abuse and unknown causes
. . . . . . . Surely Ms Finlay could find a more deserving candidate for the Human Rights award than Dr Telfer
After being censored by a judge. Finlay continues to disappoint. So silent during covid.
How on earth can a reviewer elect to be anonymous? All of the 'peer reviewers' who voted against this article should be named, as well as those who supported its publication. Perhaps TEMU could get away with anonymous reviews, but a medical journal? Very suss indeed.
Anon peer review is the tradition. Speak freely etc, but open to abuse.
I just came across this study that I haven’t seen before.
Makes one wonder how the brave souls at RCH can do what they do!
. . .Long-Term Follow-Up of Individuals Undergoing Sex-Reassignment Surgery: Somatic Morbidity and Cause of Death Sex Med March 2016
Studies of mortality in transsexuals have suggested an increased mortality risk compared with controls, for example:
Swedish study of 324 MtF and FtM individuals after SRS (follow-up = 11.4 years) found that the all-cause mortality rate was three times higher in this cohort compared with controls.
A Dutch long-term follow-up study of 966 MtF and 365 FtM individuals (follow-up = 18.5 years), a 51% higher mortality rate was found in MtF subjects compared with the general population.10 For FtM subjects, no increased mortality was found compared with the general population.
A Dutch study of 1,109 individuals receiving HT found no increased mortality overall, but in MtF subjects 25 to 39 years old, mortality was significantly increased because of suicide, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, CVD, drug abuse, and unknown causes.31 The only Danish study on transsexualism conducted thus far, which included 37 individuals, reported three deaths of 29 reassigned MtF individuals and no deaths of 8 FtM individuals studied from 1956 through 1978.
these activities have no place in hospitals public or private. Leave the children alone!
I would question that homophobia, what ever that is, is common in high schools.