This is very encouraging news, particularly given the requirement that the investigation is 'an independent and headed by appropriately qualified and trustworthy experts who are NOT affiliated with the gender clinic'
The reality that a multitude of scientific papers confirm that the desistance rate of gender dysphoric children is of the order of 70-80% surely should ensure that children not get sucked into the irreversible vortex that is transition.
"Dr Stathis argued that if youth gender medicine were to be criticised as “experimental”, that label should also be applied to most treatments used by child and adolescent psychiatry because low-quality evidence was the norm."
I suspect most treatments do not sterilize the young person or commit them on a pathway to lifetime hormone usage which takes their body out of normal operating conditions (with increased mortality, heart disease, immune disease, bone density harm....etc.).
The evidence of benefit is shaky if at all there beyond anecdotes but the harm is significant. It's time to start walking this back, physicians....
why do they expect their evidence review to give anything that Sweden and NICE didn't get? They're reproducible, that's the whole point....they can actually start acting on it!
Kudos and gratitude to brave Dr. Spencer! Where are the rest of the clinicians and if you are one... how are you going to explain to people in 5 years why you weren't at her side right now?
Dr Jillian Spencer is a hero and I hope Dr Reilly is correct about an upcoming review. Do you think it is the secretive review which the Australian referenced a while ago or a different one? Why are we kept in the dark about such important matters relating to our health system? That 2018 spike in Queensland is indeed intriguing. Does it have anything to do with legislative changes, I wonder, or more likely, the activism and publicity in the lead up to those changes? Wasn't Queensland going through a Gender Bender during that period? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/9868068
If such an “independent inquiry “ is conducted, might this provide the RANZCP and the RACP with the opportunity to acknowledge the inappropriate capture of social science, which has had them bluffed ( along with AHPRA) , might I say, to their shame. Surely the colleges and the statutory body, (both ostensibly charged with training of medical participants and the protection of the public ( in this case, children) from inappropriate or dangerous treatments, respectively) would be expected to be central to a genuine inquiry. Alas, the ALP government made no change to it’s 2018 policy position ( of obligatory affirmation treatment protocol in minors) at the recent federal conference, so the political levers will probably stay unchallenged. It would be too ambitious to expect any change without a change of government. Come the revolution. Queensland could start things It would be a vote winner or a lot of hats will be eaten
This is very encouraging news, particularly given the requirement that the investigation is 'an independent and headed by appropriately qualified and trustworthy experts who are NOT affiliated with the gender clinic'
The reality that a multitude of scientific papers confirm that the desistance rate of gender dysphoric children is of the order of 70-80% surely should ensure that children not get sucked into the irreversible vortex that is transition.
"Dr Stathis argued that if youth gender medicine were to be criticised as “experimental”, that label should also be applied to most treatments used by child and adolescent psychiatry because low-quality evidence was the norm."
I suspect most treatments do not sterilize the young person or commit them on a pathway to lifetime hormone usage which takes their body out of normal operating conditions (with increased mortality, heart disease, immune disease, bone density harm....etc.).
The evidence of benefit is shaky if at all there beyond anecdotes but the harm is significant. It's time to start walking this back, physicians....
why do they expect their evidence review to give anything that Sweden and NICE didn't get? They're reproducible, that's the whole point....they can actually start acting on it!
Kudos and gratitude to brave Dr. Spencer! Where are the rest of the clinicians and if you are one... how are you going to explain to people in 5 years why you weren't at her side right now?
Dr Jillian Spencer is a hero and I hope Dr Reilly is correct about an upcoming review. Do you think it is the secretive review which the Australian referenced a while ago or a different one? Why are we kept in the dark about such important matters relating to our health system? That 2018 spike in Queensland is indeed intriguing. Does it have anything to do with legislative changes, I wonder, or more likely, the activism and publicity in the lead up to those changes? Wasn't Queensland going through a Gender Bender during that period? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/9868068
If such an “independent inquiry “ is conducted, might this provide the RANZCP and the RACP with the opportunity to acknowledge the inappropriate capture of social science, which has had them bluffed ( along with AHPRA) , might I say, to their shame. Surely the colleges and the statutory body, (both ostensibly charged with training of medical participants and the protection of the public ( in this case, children) from inappropriate or dangerous treatments, respectively) would be expected to be central to a genuine inquiry. Alas, the ALP government made no change to it’s 2018 policy position ( of obligatory affirmation treatment protocol in minors) at the recent federal conference, so the political levers will probably stay unchallenged. It would be too ambitious to expect any change without a change of government. Come the revolution. Queensland could start things It would be a vote winner or a lot of hats will be eaten