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TVNZ One News 21 June 2021 The controversial use of electroshock treatment on children is at the centre of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Lake Alice’s child and adolescent unit. If used properly, the treatment can be a life-saving option in a small number of cases, according to psychiatrist Richard Porter. “People with depression […]

Daily Mail 21 June 2021 The NHS‘s only children’s gender transition clinic is currently running ‘conversion therapy for gay kids’ in a bid to persuade them that they are really trans, a gay psychologist who worked there has claimed. Dr Matt Bristow said he feared that the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust was ignoring the

NZ Herald 14 June 2021 New guidelines from the World Health Organisation calling for an end to compulsory and “coercive” treatment for mental illness should be a wake-up call for New Zealand, mental health experts say. A senior lecturer at Otago University, Sarah Gordon, who specialises in legal coercion and human rights, said the new

Stuff co.nz 5 June 2021 – CECILE MEIER Vulnerable young children are being locked in small rooms in mental health hospitals for days at a time, a practice that has drawn condemnation from experts. Between the ages of 15 and 17, Jane, who suffered PTSD, anxiety and depression after she was sexually assaulted and lost

PJ Media 11 August 2020 Last year, a groundbreaking study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) claimed to prove that transgender surgery improves the mental health of people suffering from gender dysphoria (the persistent and painful identification with the gender opposite one’s biological sex). Earlier this month, however, AJP issued a “correction” that acknowledged key flaws in

Peter Lynas is the Director of the Evangelical Alliance. The Government has got itself into a pickle on conversion therapy. It has promised to end it, pledging legislation in this year’s Queen’s speech, but also to protect those seeking spiritual support.   In reality, those two things are not mutually exclusive, but delivering both objectives will

The Australian 4 May 2021 Gender clinicians are under increasing pressure to enable “conveyor belt” medicalisation of children who arrive already convinced that hormonal drugs are the only solution to their distress, according to a landmark study. The first paper from Australian gender clinicians to tap into international concerns about the “gender affirmative” medicalised treatment model for

Yahoo News 6 May 2021 Psychotherapists could be criminalised for treating children who want to be transgender under new laws banning conversion therapy, the Government has been warned. Mental health professionals say that under new laws they could lose their licence or even face prison terms for exploring the reasons behind a child’s belief that they

Christian Post 14 April 2021 U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has assured that pastors will not face criminal charges for counseling individuals seeking help with unwanted same-sex attraction as Parliament seeks to ban so-called “conversion therapy.” In a March 27 letter responding to concerns raised by the Evangelical Alliance and its 3,500 member churches that clergy might

The Christian Institute 10 April 2021 A new report being used by LGBT lobby groups to put pressure on the Government to ban so-called conversion therapy has been dismissed as “fundamentally flawed”. The 2020 Conversion Therapy & Gender Identity Survey was produced by Stonewall, Mermaids, GIRES, LGBT Foundation and the Ozanne Foundation. Published last month,