The ethics of subjecting children to an untrialled medical intervention that includes use of off-label hormonal therapy and mutilating irreversible sterilising surgical procedures, all in the absence of an appropriate clinical trial to confirm safety and efficacy is unethical.
The fact that the ever expanding cohort lining up for this process harbour a high prevalence of a multitude of mental health conditions including: Autism spectrum disorders, anxiety and depressive disorders, eating disorders.
The fact that a multiple studies of ‘desistance’ (individuals who spontaneously no longer questioning their birth) is in the range of 60-95%, meaning they ‘grow out of’ their gender dysphoria.
Bring on the legislation and ban this shameful process.
"If you think that what we are doing in Victoria [where the gender-affirming medical model has a de facto monopoly] is world class and top notch, you have nothing to fear from an inquiry and you have nothing to fear from this being examined and scrutinised,” he said."
Exactly. And calling someone names is not addressing the issue. If it works so well, let's see all the outcomes, long term, for instance the 9 year outcomes of those 211 from the clinic in 2014? How are they doing now? Or they could use all the long term outcomes from elsewhere...oh, hm, nothing to see here.
Would these people support a drastic sterilizing treatment on their kids for cancer if no one had checked whether it actually worked past the standard remission time for the cancer?
The ethics of subjecting children to an untrialled medical intervention that includes use of off-label hormonal therapy and mutilating irreversible sterilising surgical procedures, all in the absence of an appropriate clinical trial to confirm safety and efficacy is unethical.
The fact that the ever expanding cohort lining up for this process harbour a high prevalence of a multitude of mental health conditions including: Autism spectrum disorders, anxiety and depressive disorders, eating disorders.
The fact that a multiple studies of ‘desistance’ (individuals who spontaneously no longer questioning their birth) is in the range of 60-95%, meaning they ‘grow out of’ their gender dysphoria.
Bring on the legislation and ban this shameful process.
"If you think that what we are doing in Victoria [where the gender-affirming medical model has a de facto monopoly] is world class and top notch, you have nothing to fear from an inquiry and you have nothing to fear from this being examined and scrutinised,” he said."
Exactly. And calling someone names is not addressing the issue. If it works so well, let's see all the outcomes, long term, for instance the 9 year outcomes of those 211 from the clinic in 2014? How are they doing now? Or they could use all the long term outcomes from elsewhere...oh, hm, nothing to see here.
Would these people support a drastic sterilizing treatment on their kids for cancer if no one had checked whether it actually worked past the standard remission time for the cancer?
Thank you for all your informative reporting!
Thank you Bernard for your tireless efforts to have this issue debated. I feel progress is being made!