The Australian
Trans surgery âmay be judgedâ a mistake by future generations
Bernard Lane
26 November 2021
The surgical removal of healthy breasts from girls who identify as boys is an experiment that future generations may judge harshly, a psychiatrist has warned.
Transparency, please: the troubling case of Imogen
Bernard Lane
6 November 2021
The name of Keira Bell, the 24 year-old detransitioner who regrets her medically assisted spell as a trans male, is known around the world because of her litigation against Englandâs Tavistock gender clinic. Few know about the Australian case of âImogenâ, the pseudonym for a troubled teen who transitioned in the other direction from birth as a boy to a new identity as a trans girl. Imogenâs story comes back into focus, now that Bellâs landmark victory against the UK Tavistock clinic has been overturned on appeal.
GPs face legal risks over hormones for teens
Bernard Lane
29 July 2021
GPs have been warned they may face disciplinary action or law suits if they give cross-sex hormone drugs to transgender-identifying minors.
Protesting long waits for specialist gender clinics, trans health advocates have promoted the US-style âinformed consentâ model as a fast-track to hormonal treatment not requiring expert Âdiagnosis of the distressful condition gender dysphoria.
But GPs are being misled about the law, which demands a formal diagnosis and a multidisciplinary treatment team with specialists before 16 and 17-year-olds can be given these hormone drugs Âcarrying a risk of infertility, according to University of Queensland legal academic Patrick Parkinson and senior psychiatrist Philip Morris.
Judges to oversee transgender teen treatment
Bernard Lane
20 July 2021
New patients at the gender clinic, which cannot be named for legal reasons, have to get court approval before they can go ahead with life-altering hormonal treatments that are in high demand by teenagers who identify as transgender.
Swedish clinic moves first to halt trans drugs for children
Bernard Lane
11 May 2021
Trans lobby âburiesâ defence of hormone drugs
Bernard Lane
31 March 2021