TVNZ’s Sunday programme recently ‘examined’ the issue of puberty blockers for children who have gender dysphoria. But this wasn’t an ‘investigation’. This was a further pushing of the media’s own narrative and bias – sadly. As predicted, they didn’t talk to pediatricians who are raising the red flag – and there are many of them […]
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The Age 28 February 2021 From The Age in Australia comes the warning about how a ban on ‘conversion therapy’ would work in practice: “The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission has been equipped with power to investigate church groups and other organisations engaged in gay conversion practices, including seizing documents and pursuing them
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60 Minutes Australia (2019) What happens when a child is wrongly diagnosed as transgender by doctors. At 12 he wanted to transition to a girl. He believed he was a girl in a boy’s body. At 14 he reverted back to being his biological male. “I guessed I realised I could be happy without changing
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“This same-sex attraction was unwanted and caused huge amounts of distress and mental anguish including suicidal thoughts.” I was born in Hamilton NZ, and at the age of 18 moved to the UK to live. I am bisexual. At least that’s how some people would describe me – though I wasn’t born this way. For
In yet another media item completely supportive of a ban on ‘conversion therapy’ (which is yet to be specifically defined), the author of the opinion piece in the Dominion Post at the weekend “Gay conversion therapy is harmful, hateful, and doesn’t work” let slip the ultimate goal. It’s not about protecting people from coercive or
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Democracy Project 23 February 2021 Banning gay conversion therapy obviously presents its own problems — including infringing upon freedom of religion and freedom of speech — but a ban on gender identity conversion therapy adds another level of complication when transitioning from one gender to another can involve puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mastectomies, vaginoplasties or
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The Age (Australia) February 2021 Doctors and psychiatrists want the Andrews government to make changes to its plan to ban gay conversion therapy, due to concerns it will discourage some practitioners from treating vulnerable patients. The Victorian branches of the Australian Medical Association and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists say the
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“I have been free from the torment in my mind for more than forty years” Before I was five, I experienced three separations from both parents. I arrived prematurely in the early 1950’s. Not considered strong enough to go home with my mother, I remained in hospital care until I was deemed ready. Back then
Family First Media Release 16 February 2021 Official advice to the Minister and Associate Minister of Health regarding ‘conversion therapy’ has revealed that a ban is not recommended. Official Information Act requests show that in 2018, Associate Minister of Health and Green MP Julie Anne Genter was advised by the Ministry of Health: “Due to
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The Daily Signal 9 February 2021 Children “have been very seriously damaged” in receiving treatment at the United Kingdom’s premier gender identity facility, a former psychiatrist there says in a bombshell interview. Dr. David Bell faced disciplinary action after writing an internal report in 2018 raising concerns about procedures at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which
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