This morning ABC Radio National interviewed the BBC journo Hannah Barnes about the Tavistock clinic scandal. For the ABC, this is a potential breakthrough. It's true that the producer/presenter did not ask the obvious question, Is something like the Tavistock happening here? Instead, they referred listeners to Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne & a local trans lobby group as if they were sources of accurate & independent information.
I'm sure you are right, Guy. Litigation present & future is no doubt exercising the minds of health & hospital managers. The other element is mass media. Politicians & their advisers have been told that gender clinics are a fringe issue pursued by the odd obsessive journalist. The pressure on politicians would dramatically increase were the ABC, The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age all too take the story seriously & report it in detail.
I suspect the only thing that will make the proponents of this shocking treatment see reason is the successful law suits which will be coming soon. And when the first ones are successful it will start the avalanche.
Health professionals committed to continuing the affirmative model in the management of gender dysphoria surely must be aware of the growing storm.
The lack of credible research to support an experimental, irreversible, mutilating and sterilising procedure in otherwise healthy young people is raising ever more serious questions as to the ethics of proceeding with this approach.
It is probable that sometime, in the not-too-distant future, that mandated changes will occur and difficult questions will be asked by some of those individuals dissatisfied with the outcome of all that affirmation.
This morning ABC Radio National interviewed the BBC journo Hannah Barnes about the Tavistock clinic scandal. For the ABC, this is a potential breakthrough. It's true that the producer/presenter did not ask the obvious question, Is something like the Tavistock happening here? Instead, they referred listeners to Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne & a local trans lobby group as if they were sources of accurate & independent information.
I'm sure you are right, Guy. Litigation present & future is no doubt exercising the minds of health & hospital managers. The other element is mass media. Politicians & their advisers have been told that gender clinics are a fringe issue pursued by the odd obsessive journalist. The pressure on politicians would dramatically increase were the ABC, The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age all too take the story seriously & report it in detail.
Yes, Vincent. I suspect the BMJ investigation will reach many medicos who hitherto haven’t thought much about gender medicine.
Bernard
I suspect the only thing that will make the proponents of this shocking treatment see reason is the successful law suits which will be coming soon. And when the first ones are successful it will start the avalanche.
Health professionals committed to continuing the affirmative model in the management of gender dysphoria surely must be aware of the growing storm.
The lack of credible research to support an experimental, irreversible, mutilating and sterilising procedure in otherwise healthy young people is raising ever more serious questions as to the ethics of proceeding with this approach.
It is probable that sometime, in the not-too-distant future, that mandated changes will occur and difficult questions will be asked by some of those individuals dissatisfied with the outcome of all that affirmation.