Thanks to the Australian and Bernard Lane for Publishing Our Comments About the Affirmative Model
NEWS COMMENTARY
Bernard Lane has been writing articles about transgender issues for The Australian. Those articles can be found listed under his BIO.
Lane included GHQ statements for an article about conversion therapy laws and how these will be used to immediately affirm the significant increases in trans-identified youth:
“Health chiefs can’t ignore ‘global epidemic’ of transgender teens”
Here is the quoted GHQ commentary:
Justine Kreher, from a new US-based LGBT group Gender Health Query worried about overdiagnosis of gender dysphoria and medicalisation of minors, said most LGBT people were not aware of the risks.
“The evidence is strong that early social transition (living as the opposite sex) and use of hormone blockers will lead to the over-medicalisation — or “conversion” — of LGB minors who would have outgrown gender dysphoria with maturation,” she said.
“It’s already happening as known cases are mounting. The question is, how high will the percentage be?”
Gender Health Query’s international board includes trans adult Miranda Yardley and lesbian feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith from the University of Melbourne.
Ms Kreher, also a board member, said LGBT lobbies and progressive media refused to discuss “the reality that for many gender-nonconforming youths, or even adults, there isn’t a clear line between gay and trans”.
“Trans people argue transition as a minor is a human right (but troubled) LGB people would argue the right to mature and accept oneself, without being medically defaced by the psychology and medical profession, is a human right.”
Ms Kreher said activist promotion of medicalised gender change had been “extremely effective in inducing suicide terror in the public”.
“People should take suicide risk seriously, but it is also exaggerated and employed to manipulate people to not care about serious risks to minors who may (grow out of gender dysphoria) with time,” she said.
“These risks include sterilisation, loss of sexual function, impacts on bone and circulatory health, and a reduction in IQ if they take hormone blockers.”
The article included commentary from mental health professionals expressing similar concerns:
The internationally recognised sex researcher, Ray Blanchard, joined online debate about the Queensland bill, tweeting: “Conversion therapy laws are Trojan Horses, ostensibly about banning attempts to change sexual orientation in adults, actually about banning therapy to help gender-dysphoric children and youth become comfortable with their anatomic sex”.
And:
Dr Parry pointed out that many children grew out of gender dysphoria, becoming “more comfortable with birth gender or a same-sex orientation”. Clinicians say this is a reason to be cautious about medical interventions.
Psychologist Dianna Kenny, who treats gender dysphoric youth, told the committee that trans activists “vehemently denied the role of social contagion in the spread of gender dysphoria in young people because it flies in the face of their flawed ideology that children are the experts regarding their own gender identity”.
Dr Kenny, a specialist in developmental psychology and a former professor at Sydney University, said beliefs and attitudes were especially contagious in centralised social networks.
“This network is highly centralised with only one voice — the trans activist lobby — being heard above the desperate cries of terrified parents and horrified academics, doctors, psychologists and psychotherapists.”
She said this social contagion was affecting not just children and adolescents but also medical practitioners, legislators and educators.
The article confirms this is mainly affecting young females:
There were at least 216 patients on controversial puberty blocker drugs (up 108-fold over six years).
The clinic refuses to reveal birth sex data but 94 per cent of the 84 under-18s on opposite-sex hormones were taking testosterone, meaning they were born female.
Thanks to the paper and author for airing our concerns.
REFERENCES
Lane, B. (2020, February 11) “Health chiefs can’t ignore ‘global epidemic’ of transgender teens.” The Australian. Retrieved from https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/health-chiefs-cant-ignore-global-epidemic-of-transgender-teens/news-story/5849a55ba47884befdc9eb72d25d32d7