The list of services funded by Medicare that most of the population want - shorter hospital waiting times, dental care for all under Medicare , just for starters - should be the priority.
Especially when ghouls in the medical profession KNOW surgeries don’t meet even the lowest bar in “First do no harm” and medical ethics.
Saving the announcement till after the election hints at capitulation to a lobby group rather than doing what’s right for ALL Australians.
REALITY: Eight studies suggesting that ‘transition’ is not always a bed of roses:
Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery:
Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12 fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not.
2 Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden (1973-2023):
Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour & psychiatric morbidity than the general population.
3 Trends in suicide death risk in transgender people: results from the Amsterdam Cohort of Gender Dysphoria study (1972–2017):
The suicide risk in transgender people is higher than in the general population and seems to occur during every stage of transitioning.
4 Suicide Mortality Among Adolescents in Finland (1996–2019):
Gender dysphoria alone did not predict mortality or suicide among adolescents referred to gender identity clinics. Psychiatric comorbidities were the primary predictors of mortality. Medical gender reassignment did not mitigate suicide risk.
5 Somatic Morbidity and Cause of Death in Denmark (1978–2010):
Individuals who underwent SRS, somatic morbidity increased from 19% pre-surgery to 23.2% post-surgery, with a mortality rate of 9.6%. The average age at death was 53.5 years.
6 Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery: a national database study:
From 107 583 patients, matched cohorts demonstrated that those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without surgery.
7 Suicide-Related Outcomes Following Gender-Affirming Treatment: A Review:
From 107 583 patients, matched cohorts demonstrated that those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without surgery.
8. Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery:
Gender-affirming surgery, while beneficial in affirming gender identity, is associated with increased risk of mental health issues.
It is interesting to note the reference to our Federal Health Minister and rather disturbing to read that he has some input into this issue:
Our Federal Health Ministry is the responsibility of a Minister Mark Butler and his deputy Ed Kearney.
This pair’s experience prior to entering Parliament as summarised in the Parliamentary website is as follows:
The Minister, Mark Butler’s only pre parliamentary work experience was:
Union Official from 1992 – 2007, fifteen years .
I assumed that his deputy would have a more convincing experience in health related issues.
Deputy Health Minister Ged Kearney:
Union Official 2002 – 2018, sixteen years.
It seems incomprehensible that Australia’s Federal Health Ministry is the responsibility of a pair with a total work experience of 31 Years as Union Officials
. . . . as if there's not enough misery in this gender nonsense without this pair getting involved.
How long can Australia keep sanctioning such unethical treatments, while the rest of the world pulls back from them? What will it take for people here to realise the media is promoting a dangerous, pseudo-scientific ideology in transgenderism?
I have a young son who favours Disney princesses over cars and trucks, and I hope he can grow up free to express himself and happy in his own skin without anyone telling him he has been born in the wrong body.
Yes, Eriko, the question is, how long? I believe the mainstream will be roused to action on this issue but no idea when, no idea how much damage & harm will be inflicted before sanity is restored.
The age-specific death rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia is quoted as 8.3 deaths per 100,000, compared to 2.1 per 100,000 for non-Indigenous children. The age-specific death rate for suicide among non-indigenous Australian children diagnosed with gender dysphoria is be zero.
. . . . and we’re wondering if the taxpayer should be funding genital reconstruction surgery including penectomy and construction of labia +/- neo vagina.
This proposal seems to be the definition of insanity. It’s like a bad horror movie which will engulf so many people when these confused and ill people wake up and realise the problem was in their head and not their body.
I have lost so much respect for the medical fraternity. Covid nonsense was bad enough but this is next level.
I include journalism as an institution that failed here. Obvious questions went unasked. Some journos acted in effect as publicists for gender medicalisation of kids & worked to keep colleagues in line by shaming & smearing them.
Bernard , your own previous regular opinion articles in our national broadsheet abruptly ceased, as the “ issue” was gaining more and more attention. Many readers have been appreciative of your recent reappearance in print. Would you care to comment on the explanation for the hiatus in your contributions? If there has been another journalist who has been prepared to alert the public about this medical scandal, he or she has escaped my notice ever since medical intervention in childhood gender dysphoria managed to assume the inexplicable clinical dominance in which it basks. Any sniff of a challenge has been only met with intolerance or personal retribution. I hope further future contributions continue to appear from you in the Australian newspaper.
There’s something so breathtaking when psychology or psychiatry cannot recognize a behavioral for what it is, when it’s utterly obvious to everyone, I still can’t find the explanation.
People have obsessive compulsions - to pilfer, to start fires, to wash themselves repeatedly, to drink, to touch certain things, to starve themselves, to binge and purge, to binge, mimic people around them, to mimic women, that they must remove a leg, a hand. That they are blind.
It is well-known in biology, sexual mimicry, a result of highly competitive male/female social environments. Males imitate women to avoid male competition socially and sexually. All major complex animal groups have the behavior except amphibians.
In humans, generally it’s the males, and by imitating women they successful avoid men - less than half the violent death rate of other men - and are able to invade women’s domains without males present. They enter prisons as women and reproduce via rape without male competition. They enter women’s sports and physically dominate women without male competition. They mark women’s spaces by pissing, and they enter women’s domains to dominate them sexually by exposing themselves in gyms and spas. All well-understood.
Part of their imitation is the evolution of a delusion - by thinking they are real women, they don’t signal the deception as easily - von Neumann wrote of this strategy in game theory.
Psychology/psychiatry has assumed a “folie à deux” delusion imagining that confirming a delusion is helpful.
The discussion is actually “how much can we help these men deceive women and men”, not “reduce dysphoria”. The “dysphoria” is the result of failed imitation, which is the fascinating origin of the entire problem.
Not that they are dysphoria from a mystical alignment, but they are unhappy that they can’t convince themselves and others of the sexual mimicry.
Nobody seems to psychiatrically question the compulsion to mimicry. Ever.
Mimisexuality.
If only they were biologists and not mystics. Humans are animals, this is an animal behavior. Rape is an animal behavior too, sometimes a compulsion, but we don’t affirm it.
It is recognized for what it is, and people (women) are protected against it.
I had not heard of the AMA’s association with this character, but I’m not surprised. The Association is prone to embrace fashionable untested woke nonsense.
The AMA rendered great harm to many in women in their endorsement of the ‘Pelvic Sling’ device for the treatment of pelvic-floor prolapse a condition that is experienced by some women following childbirth.
Despite the fact that the procedure had not undergone clinical trial the AMA’s endorsement encouraged women to be treated with the device (a similar situation to their endorsement of Gender Transition in children)
The outcome was irreversible damage to tens of thousands of women and resulting billions of dollars following law suits for the women thus damaged.
. . . . Only some 30% of Australian doctors are members of the AMA.
It’s totally amazing how much public credibility the AMA gets, based on nothing really. Makes a mockery of frontline health staff. I was very lucky to have missed out on getting that awful pelvic mesh myself, only good luck I didn’t.
I'm late to this but you know what will happen. Cosmetic surgery is not covered by Medicare or private insurance. Now everyone who wants a boob job will just declare themselves non binary et voilà! And this is really what is behind this. Follow the money.
An absolute abuse of public funding.
The list of services funded by Medicare that most of the population want - shorter hospital waiting times, dental care for all under Medicare , just for starters - should be the priority.
Especially when ghouls in the medical profession KNOW surgeries don’t meet even the lowest bar in “First do no harm” and medical ethics.
Saving the announcement till after the election hints at capitulation to a lobby group rather than doing what’s right for ALL Australians.
REALITY: Eight studies suggesting that ‘transition’ is not always a bed of roses:
Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery:
Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12 fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not.
2 Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden (1973-2023):
Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour & psychiatric morbidity than the general population.
3 Trends in suicide death risk in transgender people: results from the Amsterdam Cohort of Gender Dysphoria study (1972–2017):
The suicide risk in transgender people is higher than in the general population and seems to occur during every stage of transitioning.
4 Suicide Mortality Among Adolescents in Finland (1996–2019):
Gender dysphoria alone did not predict mortality or suicide among adolescents referred to gender identity clinics. Psychiatric comorbidities were the primary predictors of mortality. Medical gender reassignment did not mitigate suicide risk.
5 Somatic Morbidity and Cause of Death in Denmark (1978–2010):
Individuals who underwent SRS, somatic morbidity increased from 19% pre-surgery to 23.2% post-surgery, with a mortality rate of 9.6%. The average age at death was 53.5 years.
6 Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery: a national database study:
From 107 583 patients, matched cohorts demonstrated that those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without surgery.
7 Suicide-Related Outcomes Following Gender-Affirming Treatment: A Review:
From 107 583 patients, matched cohorts demonstrated that those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without surgery.
8. Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery:
Gender-affirming surgery, while beneficial in affirming gender identity, is associated with increased risk of mental health issues.
It figures.
It is interesting to note the reference to our Federal Health Minister and rather disturbing to read that he has some input into this issue:
Our Federal Health Ministry is the responsibility of a Minister Mark Butler and his deputy Ed Kearney.
This pair’s experience prior to entering Parliament as summarised in the Parliamentary website is as follows:
The Minister, Mark Butler’s only pre parliamentary work experience was:
Union Official from 1992 – 2007, fifteen years .
I assumed that his deputy would have a more convincing experience in health related issues.
Deputy Health Minister Ged Kearney:
Union Official 2002 – 2018, sixteen years.
It seems incomprehensible that Australia’s Federal Health Ministry is the responsibility of a pair with a total work experience of 31 Years as Union Officials
. . . . as if there's not enough misery in this gender nonsense without this pair getting involved.
It would be better if a Health Minister had a background in science, or even better, good thinking skills.
How long can Australia keep sanctioning such unethical treatments, while the rest of the world pulls back from them? What will it take for people here to realise the media is promoting a dangerous, pseudo-scientific ideology in transgenderism?
I have a young son who favours Disney princesses over cars and trucks, and I hope he can grow up free to express himself and happy in his own skin without anyone telling him he has been born in the wrong body.
Yes, Eriko, the question is, how long? I believe the mainstream will be roused to action on this issue but no idea when, no idea how much damage & harm will be inflicted before sanity is restored.
The age-specific death rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia is quoted as 8.3 deaths per 100,000, compared to 2.1 per 100,000 for non-Indigenous children. The age-specific death rate for suicide among non-indigenous Australian children diagnosed with gender dysphoria is be zero.
. . . . and we’re wondering if the taxpayer should be funding genital reconstruction surgery including penectomy and construction of labia +/- neo vagina.
This proposal seems to be the definition of insanity. It’s like a bad horror movie which will engulf so many people when these confused and ill people wake up and realise the problem was in their head and not their body.
I have lost so much respect for the medical fraternity. Covid nonsense was bad enough but this is next level.
I used to be complacent about our institutions, such as medicine. No longer.
Same here and I am one of them!
I include journalism as an institution that failed here. Obvious questions went unasked. Some journos acted in effect as publicists for gender medicalisation of kids & worked to keep colleagues in line by shaming & smearing them.
Bernard , your own previous regular opinion articles in our national broadsheet abruptly ceased, as the “ issue” was gaining more and more attention. Many readers have been appreciative of your recent reappearance in print. Would you care to comment on the explanation for the hiatus in your contributions? If there has been another journalist who has been prepared to alert the public about this medical scandal, he or she has escaped my notice ever since medical intervention in childhood gender dysphoria managed to assume the inexplicable clinical dominance in which it basks. Any sniff of a challenge has been only met with intolerance or personal retribution. I hope further future contributions continue to appear from you in the Australian newspaper.
There’s something so breathtaking when psychology or psychiatry cannot recognize a behavioral for what it is, when it’s utterly obvious to everyone, I still can’t find the explanation.
People have obsessive compulsions - to pilfer, to start fires, to wash themselves repeatedly, to drink, to touch certain things, to starve themselves, to binge and purge, to binge, mimic people around them, to mimic women, that they must remove a leg, a hand. That they are blind.
It is well-known in biology, sexual mimicry, a result of highly competitive male/female social environments. Males imitate women to avoid male competition socially and sexually. All major complex animal groups have the behavior except amphibians.
In humans, generally it’s the males, and by imitating women they successful avoid men - less than half the violent death rate of other men - and are able to invade women’s domains without males present. They enter prisons as women and reproduce via rape without male competition. They enter women’s sports and physically dominate women without male competition. They mark women’s spaces by pissing, and they enter women’s domains to dominate them sexually by exposing themselves in gyms and spas. All well-understood.
Part of their imitation is the evolution of a delusion - by thinking they are real women, they don’t signal the deception as easily - von Neumann wrote of this strategy in game theory.
Psychology/psychiatry has assumed a “folie à deux” delusion imagining that confirming a delusion is helpful.
The discussion is actually “how much can we help these men deceive women and men”, not “reduce dysphoria”. The “dysphoria” is the result of failed imitation, which is the fascinating origin of the entire problem.
Not that they are dysphoria from a mystical alignment, but they are unhappy that they can’t convince themselves and others of the sexual mimicry.
Nobody seems to psychiatrically question the compulsion to mimicry. Ever.
Mimisexuality.
If only they were biologists and not mystics. Humans are animals, this is an animal behavior. Rape is an animal behavior too, sometimes a compulsion, but we don’t affirm it.
It is recognized for what it is, and people (women) are protected against it.
Worrying that the AMA are advised by this pervert, who probably has been involved in discussions with Butler https://open.substack.com/pub/genevievegluck/p/trans-identified-male-hired-by-australian-596?r=d6rnf&utm_medium=ios
I had not heard of the AMA’s association with this character, but I’m not surprised. The Association is prone to embrace fashionable untested woke nonsense.
The AMA rendered great harm to many in women in their endorsement of the ‘Pelvic Sling’ device for the treatment of pelvic-floor prolapse a condition that is experienced by some women following childbirth.
Despite the fact that the procedure had not undergone clinical trial the AMA’s endorsement encouraged women to be treated with the device (a similar situation to their endorsement of Gender Transition in children)
The outcome was irreversible damage to tens of thousands of women and resulting billions of dollars following law suits for the women thus damaged.
. . . . Only some 30% of Australian doctors are members of the AMA.
It’s totally amazing how much public credibility the AMA gets, based on nothing really. Makes a mockery of frontline health staff. I was very lucky to have missed out on getting that awful pelvic mesh myself, only good luck I didn’t.
I'm late to this but you know what will happen. Cosmetic surgery is not covered by Medicare or private insurance. Now everyone who wants a boob job will just declare themselves non binary et voilà! And this is really what is behind this. Follow the money.