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Great article. Re the ABC, they still have their disgraceful child-grooming video on TikTok, about how great puberty blockers are. All their articles on trans issues support the trans-industrial complex.

So much for investigative journalism.

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I know one senior ex ABC person, who sees sense on this issue. I don’t know younger ABC people & I’m curious how a conversation about this would go, assuming an openness to at least start a conversation.

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When a conversation is happening, there is a chance for change. When people are closed minded, there is no conversation. Edward DeBono used the term [mental] 'arrogance clamp and once said I would go as far to say it is the only cause of stupidity.

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Sep 20·edited Sep 20Liked by Bernard Lane

"In his expert report, dated May 2023, Dr Roman said social transmission of psychiatric syndromes was 'very common,' especially among teenage and young adult females. He cited the examples of anorexia being reinforced among groups of in-patient females, and the practice of sharing images of self-harm on social media."

This is an example of a fact-based scientific finding that trans rights activists and their credulous allies will not tolerate and will seek to discredit at every opportunity. That includes mounting savage attacks on the researchers in order to threaten their careers. They'd say that up is down if it served their cause. They're remarkably effective at getting away with it in the mainstream media.

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That is true, Ollie. And yet of course, what Roman & others say resonates with open minds. Which is why I want more people to hear his voice.

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Trans activists in America have opened a new front in their battle to make "affirming care" the only option for the treatment of gender dysphoria -- they are promoting laws that label any psychological intervention, or even assessment, as "conversion therapy," which has been effectively outlawed in the US. Psychologists will not be able to even explore the reasons behind a child's feeling of dysphoria; instead, they will be required to immediately put the child on the path to transition, because "the child knows best what is their authentic identity." We are marching toward legally mandated medical child abuse.

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Same in many states in Australia.

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It is more important than ever for skilled and creative lawyers to find legal theories to challenge the suppression of health care professionals' independent judgment in service of gender ideology.

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The American Medical Association (approximately 18% of US doctors are members) compared) in the Australian Medical Association) is committed to some very serious gender nonsense.

I quote two (of a myriad) examples of the AMA USA suggested ‘gender-neutral terminology (such violation of logic provides a clear picture of where the mindset)

• The use of “pregnant people” over “pregnant women”.

• In discussing pregnancy and parenting, use nongendered terms such as “pregnant people”, “pregnant individuals” and “persons with childbearing potential”.

By way of comparison our ( Australian) AMA (approx. 28% of Australian doctors are member of the AMA) is perhaps slightly less absurd but still wide of the mark particularly when it comes to a lack of understanding the concept of ‘evidence based care’.

I refer to the quote from the AMA ‘Position Statement 2021:

• Doctors have an ethical and professional duty to provide evidence-based care impartially and without discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and sex characteristics.

The term 'evidence-based medicine' was introduced in 1990 by Prof Gordon Guyatt of McMaster University School of Medicine. He is widely considered the global expert on the subject.

Guyatt’s comment as it relates to the WPATH guidelines for gender care:

"When there's been a rigorous systematic review of the evidence and the bottom line is 'we don't know,'" he says, then "anybody who then claims they do know is not being evidence based."

The low rates of membership in the respective AMA’s may be a result of dissatisfaction with the level of woke-saturation contained therein.

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