Tag: Puberty Blockers

The latest domino in a long line of countries banning indiscriminate use of puberty blockers is New Zealand. The health minister says that there is a lack of high-quality evidence.

For some time, I have been concerned about the haste with which medical centres in Australia have given puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children with gender dysphoria. Is this what they are doing in other countries?

The Australian Doctors Federation says that a wave of alarming reports about gender medicine is being ignored here.

Chief executive officer of Women’s Forum Australia Rachael Wong, backed by many Catholic doctors, legal and ethical experts and politicians, has intensified her call for a national pause on youth “gender-affirmation” treatments pending the outcome of an independent public inquiry.

A Victorian Supreme Court judge recently said that decisions around giving a 12-year-old puberty blockers is equivalent to making a decision about whether chemotherapy should be given to a patient with cancer. The comparison was both wrong and alarming, writes Monica Doumit.

I am certain that in my lifetime, we will see a royal commission into the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on children.

Pseudoscience begins to unravel: Westmead doctors raise major doubts on Trans procedures for kids “There are none so blind as those who will not see,”...

Concerns about putting children on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are gaining traction worldwide.

The front cover of last week’s Catholic Weekly was probably the most dramatic front page in a while, and it was dramatic for a...

Medical practitioners are urging health ministers to exercise caution on irreversible interventions