On the Front Page of the Weekend Australian today

[NotYourCisterinAus]

There's article headlined "Doctor scrutiny of gender clinic reveals legal, safety fears".

It's a long article behind a paywall, so if has an archive link, please share! Meanwhile, quoting some of the pertinent bits:

"Senior physicians at the NSW Children's Hospital Westmead have studied the physical and mental health of 79 patients in a rare academic study of the outcomes of children who presented with gender distress and gender dysphoria. The findings cast doubt on the scientific basis of the gender-affirming approach followed by the nation's other children's hospitals.

In an open access academic paper, CHW psychiatrists, endocrinologists and other physicians, and a senior medical ethics expert, called for a "much more nuanced and complex approach" as analysis revealed 88 per cent of children presenting at Westmead's gender clinic had at leas one co-morbid mental health condition, with more than 50 per cent diagnosed with behavioural disorders or autism. One in five children who consulted the clinic with gender-related distress had these feeling resolved, and almost one in 10 with a formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria, some who had taken puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, later discontinued transitioning...

One of the central justifications for gender-affirming medicine - that it alleviated psychological distress - was not borne out in the experience of the young people studied, with 44 out of 50 patients diagnosed with gender dysphoria reporting ongoing mental health concerns four to nine years after presentation at the gender clinic, many after transitioning...

The study comes as the approach of doctors practising gender-affirming medicine comes under scrutiny in court, as parents seeking to block prescription of puberty blockers to their children call expert witnesses to challenge the evidence."

There's also a half-page (broadsheet, 8 columns) on the Tavistock, and a brief article about a detransitioner who had undergone a "chest masculinisation surgery, i.e. a double mastectomy ("Elizabeth's chest surgery was a disaster, with her right nipple graft "chronically leaking a watery fluid, while voids in her scarred left nipple graft accumulated a smelly past that had to be regularly squeezed out".")

There's also an editorial and a feature article in the "Inquirer" section of the paper. With luck this will help start a conversation in Australia.

Usually with a kicker of 'you are disgusting to be so concerned about other people's sex lives'. I think I have come across that two or three times in the past two weeks on MN

Part of me wonders if some of the reason that so much surrounding gender ideology and lgbt acceptance/training is so sexually explicit, is so when anyone comes at it talking about future sex lives , fertility, development of sex organs/reproductive system , we then look like the perverts and it creates the diversions needed to push on through .

It's largely because the points cannot be refuted. All you can do is try to make women feel that it's shameful of them to talk about it, or wrong of them to talk about it, by playing on the whole 'only weird people would say that' and fear of exclusion thing, or play somewhat desperately on their female socialisation to mummy others and get them to shut up in the belief that saying truths and talking about harm to women hurts men and children, and therefore they have a vagina based duty to act as a human shield for others. And suffer quietly, because that gives the men a get out clause to crack on doing what they like without taking any responsibility.