The Australian Doctors Federation, the Australian Medical Professionals Society and the Nurses’ Professional Association Australia have joined forces to urge an end to what they call “experimental” practices on vulnerable children.
They are demanding an urgent ban on the prescribing of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones to gender distressed youth.
The medical professionals called on all political leaders to be responsible and safeguard children.
They highlighted the actions of governments around the world which have already taken action on this issue.
WHAT THE DOCTORS’ FEDERATION REQUESTED
The Australian Doctors’ Federation wrote:
“We request that in every state in Australia, “gender treatments” — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery — are banned for those under 18 years of age immediately.”
“Australia should follow the UK Cass Review, which included seven systematic reviews — the highest form of medical evidence.”
“The integrity of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) review process is now compromised through conflicts of interest.”
“THESE PRACTICES ARE NOT MEDICINE AND NEED TO BE STOPPED”
“The Australian judiciary has now recognised that these treatments are unsafe.”
“Gender as a socially constructed, self-declared, fluid identity is not a pathology requiring medical and (irreversible and potentially mutilating) surgical interventions.”
“These practices are not medicine and need to be stopped.”
The doctors group supported an open letter to Health Minister Mark Butler, endorsed by the Australian Medical Professionals Society and supported by the Nurses Professional Association Australia.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS’ LETTER TO HEALTH MINISTER
Dear Minister Butler,
As clinicians, we urgently call on you to discontinue the development of NHMRC guidelines for the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors.
Instead, we request a full inquiry or Royal Commission into the current practices being referred to as “gender care” in Australia.
Current practices lack scientific and medical credibility and do not meet accepted standards of evidence-based medicine.
They amount to systemic malpractice, enabled by flawed governance structures.
“WITH VULNERABLE CHILDREN AT RISK, WE MUST NOT DELAY ACTION”
Australia has frequently followed developments in the UK.
However, with vulnerable children at risk, we must not delay action until harm is entrenched.
Young people deserve evidence-based, family-centred care, with psychotherapy and psychosocial support as the first-line approach to gender-related distress.
Given the serious failings in the NHMRC process, we believe you must act decisively and place Australia under the guidance of the UK Cass Review recommendations for clinical care.
OTHER NATIONS HAVE REJECTED GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE MODELS
High-quality systematic evidence reviews, the highest standard in medicine, carried out in the UK, Sweden, Finland, and the United States have led to the rejection of the “gender-affirming care” (GAC) model.
New Zealand has also now banned the initiation of puberty blockers in youth with gender dysphoria.
KEY CONCERNS
Conflation of Sex and Gender
Sex is biological and immutable.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines gender as socially constructed and fluid over time, therefore not clinically diagnosable and not a biological pathology.
The biological reality is that it is not possible to change sex.
FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE QUESTIONS HER OWN RULING
The letter then goes into more detailed medical arguments.
it also pointed out that former Chief Justice Bryant has now questioned her 2013 Family Court judgment that allowed puberty blockers to be prescribed without court oversight.
She relied on the belief that they were “fully reversible” — a claim now proven to be false.
The letter to the Minister concludes:
We again call on you to provide clear guidance that clinical practice should align with the Cass Review and the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists, which recommend psychosocial support as the first-line intervention for minors.
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