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#21251954 at 2024-07-20 14:02:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

#36 - Part 24
Australian Politics and Society - Part 8
>>20954971 Video: Cass Down Under - "Centre-right politics in Australia is alert to the message of paediatrician Hilary Cass, who is about to make a virtual visit to the country. Members of the centre-right Liberal Party in Australia's most populous state have endorsed a motion urging a ban on medicalised gender change for minors. The motion, passed at Saturday's state council meeting of the party's New South Wales (NSW) division, calls on "the federal and state governments to ban chemical (drug) and surgical gender dysphoria treatment for minors due to the inability of a child to provide informed consent to these types of procedures." The motion is not binding on the parliamentary Liberal Party, which is in opposition, but the overwhelming support shown by members and delegates on Saturday sends a signal to the leadership ahead of a vote on legislation that would allow minors easier access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. England's Cass report - which deplored the "remarkably weak evidence" for youth gender medicine and confirmed the experimental status of puberty blockers - was cited in support of Saturday's motion at the state council meeting of the NSW Liberals. Dr Cass, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health who led England's 2020-24 review of youth dysphoria care, has agreed to take part in a webinar on the relevance of her report to Australia. The July 2 webinar will be moderated by Professor Philip Morris, president of the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists (NAPP), which in 2019 became the first Australian medical society to call for an inquiry into paediatric gender medicine." - Bernard Lane - genderclinicnews.com
>>20954995 Q Post #1735 - There is nothing more precious than our children. Evil has no boundaries. https://genius.com/Slayer-evil-has-no-boundaries-lyrics - The choice to know will ultimately be yours. These people are SICK!To those who are courageous enough to speak out - we stand with you! You are not alone in this fight. God bless. Q

>>20955150 US Marine on rape charge placed on bail, denied trip home to await trial in America - A US Marine charged with rape while on rotation in the Top End has had his plans to return home to await trial put on ice after being placed on bail in the Darwin Local Court on Friday. The court heard the 24-year-old - who cannot be named before being committed to stand trial - had been issued with a notice to appear after the charge was laid on May 1. But prosecutor Rhiannon McGlinn said her office had requested the case be relisted a day before his Marine Corps contract was due to lapse to ask that he be placed on bail instead. "I understand he then had plans to return to the United States of America," she said. "However the US Marine Corps has been in contact with my office and has notified us they will keep him here if there is a bail order requiring him to remain in Darwin." In granting bail, Mr Neill ordered the man to live at the Defence Establishment Berrimah and not travel more than 100km from Darwin while surrendering his travel documents and steering clear of the airport. "I'm satisfied that circumstances exist which warrant the imposing of bail conditions on the defendant because of his situation with the US Marine force and his potential to depart the jurisdiction," he said.
>>20959141 Labor cancels visas of 20 foreign criminals in Direction 99 fallout - The number of visas re-cancelled by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles more than doubled to 20 at the weekend, as he faces a new attack from the Coalition over his claims that drones are being used to monitor foreign criminals. As senior Labor figures deny the government made "a mistake" in implementing Direction 99 under pressure from New Zealand last year, opposition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan demanded the government reveal whether it was indeed flying drones near schools to track foreign-born criminals and prevent them coming into contact with children. "The Albanese Labor government needs to come clean: are they now saying that drones are flying over schools?" Mr Tehan said. "If this is the case, which schools? And have the parents of schoolchildren who attend these schools been notified? Once again this sounds like fantasy land to defend the indefensible, which is the sheer incompetence of Andrew Giles."

#21251952 at 2024-07-20 14:01:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

#36 - Part 23
Australian Politics and Society - Part 7
>>20954768 Trans 'lab leak' unleashed a scandalous medical experiment - "Equality Australia, a transgender activist lobby, issued a curious media statement this week deploring England's Cass review into the medicalisation of distressed minors alienated from their birth sex. The statement ran to almost 900 words, but none could be spared to spell out puberty blockers or synthetic cross-sex hormones. Hiding behind the euphemism of gender-affirming care, the clinicians and activists quoted in the statement would have us believe the medical scandal documented by British pediatrician Hilary Cass is simply not relevant here in Australia. Yet it is, of course. Same hormonal drugs likely to sterilise minors and rob them of sexual pleasure as adults, same low-quality evidence base, same zealous affirmation of gender as the cause of distress. Teenagers turn up at gender clinics primed with the diagnostic checklist for gender dysphoria, but the true causes of their unhap?piness may lie elsewhere. Maybe undiagnosed autism, awkward same-sex attraction, mental health disorders, past sex abuse or just the unsurprising confusion of teenage brains exposed to a pseudoscientific celebrity culture of gender diversity." - Bernard Lane, former journalist with The Australian and writer of the genderclinicnews.com newsletter
>>20954866 People are in denial following the Cass report - it's like deprogramming cult members - "I suppose if I had been cheering on a vast medical experiment on children that was now shown to be extremely harmful, I might be keeping my head down. If I had been interning as a witch hunter, I might say, "I only helped with the pyres, I didn't actually light the fire." If I needed other people's small children to prove my very "existence" as an adult, I may keep rather quiet. Indeed, the reaction to the Cass Review has been notable in that many who have previously intoned trans rights slogans have just changed the subject. Their silence is deafening. The other reaction is almost Trumpian in its delusion. When presented with the biggest survey of the evidence by a top paediatrician, some zealots simply come out with their own "alternative facts". The disinformation they have spread has meant that Dr Hilary Cass, the report's author, has been threatened and advised not to travel on public transport. These people, quite frankly, disgust me. One of them, Patrick Harvie, the co-leader of the Scottish Greens, was asked five times on the Today programme whether he accepted Cass's findings and he would not answer. Thankfully, he is not in charge of NHS Scotland, which has now also paused the prescription of puberty blockers and will not give cross-sex hormones to new patients under 18." - Suzanne Moore - telegraph.co.uk
>>20954935 Australian transgender healthcare guidelines 'lack rigour and independence', say Cass review researchers - Australia's guidelines on gender-affirmative medicine lack rigour and independence, and fail to recommend formal assessment processes that screen for body image problems, autism spectrum disorder, sexual orientation, or physical health conditions, according to international researchers commissioned by the UK Cass review. University of York researchers conducted a study analysing international standards of care in gender-affirming medicine. The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne guidelines, which are followed by all Australia's children's hospitals, were examined. The review found all guidelines around the world, including Australia's, recommend a multidisciplinary approach to assessment, but few provide specific detail or clarity on the purposes of assessment. For instance, very few guidelines recommend formal measures or clinical tools to assess gender dysphoria. Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne guidelines in Australia were found to contain no recommendations for the discussion of body image, neurodiversity or autism spectrum disorder, sexuality, sexual functioning or sexual orientation, or physical health or conditions.

#21251276 at 2024-07-20 12:17:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

#21251271 at 2024-07-20 12:16:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

#36 - Part 23
Australian Politics and Society - Part 7
>>20954768 Trans 'lab leak' unleashed a scandalous medical experiment - "Equality Australia, a transgender activist lobby, issued a curious media statement this week deploring England's Cass review into the medicalisation of distressed minors alienated from their birth sex. The statement ran to almost 900 words, but none could be spared to spell out puberty blockers or synthetic cross-sex hormones. Hiding behind the euphemism of gender-affirming care, the clinicians and activists quoted in the statement would have us believe the medical scandal documented by British pediatrician Hilary Cass is simply not relevant here in Australia. Yet it is, of course. Same hormonal drugs likely to sterilise minors and rob them of sexual pleasure as adults, same low-quality evidence base, same zealous affirmation of gender as the cause of distress. Teenagers turn up at gender clinics primed with the diagnostic checklist for gender dysphoria, but the true causes of their unhap?piness may lie elsewhere. Maybe undiagnosed autism, awkward same-sex attraction, mental health disorders, past sex abuse or just the unsurprising confusion of teenage brains exposed to a pseudoscientific celebrity culture of gender diversity." - Bernard Lane, former journalist with The Australian and writer of the genderclinicnews.com newsletter
>>20954866 People are in denial following the Cass report - it's like deprogramming cult members - ''"I suppose if I had been cheering on a vast medical experiment on children that was now shown to be extremely harmful, I might be keeping my head down. If I had been interning as a witch hunter, I might say, "I only helped with the pyres, I didn't actually light the fire." If I needed other people's small children to prove my very "existence" as an adult, I may keep rather quiet. Indeed, the reaction to the Cass Review has been notable in that many who have previously intoned trans rights slogans have just changed the subject. Their silence is deafening. The other reaction is almost Trumpian in its delusion. When presented with the biggest survey of the evidence by a top paediatrician, some zealots simply come out with their own "alternative facts". The disinformation they have spread has meant that Dr Hilary Cass, the report's author, has been threatened and advised not to travel on public transport. These people, quite frankly, disgust me. One of them, Patrick Harvie, the co-leader of the Scottish Greens, was asked five times on the Today programme whether he accepted Cass's findings and he would not answer. Thankfully, he is not in charge of NHS Scotland, which has now also paused the prescription of puberty blockers and will not give cross-sex hormones to new patients under 18."' - Suzanne Moore - telegraph.co.uk
>>20954935 Australian transgender healthcare guidelines 'lack rigour and independence', say Cass review researchers - Australia's guidelines on gender-affirmative medicine lack rigour and independence, and fail to recommend formal assessment processes that screen for body image problems, autism spectrum disorder, sexual orientation, or physical health conditions, according to international researchers commissioned by the UK Cass review. University of York researchers conducted a study analysing international standards of care in gender-affirming medicine. The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne guidelines, which are followed by all Australia's children's hospitals, were examined. The review found all guidelines around the world, including Australia's, recommend a multidisciplinary approach to assessment, but few provide specific detail or clarity on the purposes of assessment. For instance, very few guidelines recommend formal measures or clinical tools to assess gender dysphoria. Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne guidelines in Australia were found to contain no recommendations for the discussion of body image, neurodiversity or autism spectrum disorder, sexuality, sexual functioning or sexual orientation, or physical health or conditions.

#20954971 at 2024-06-02 07:30:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

>>20954706
>>20954768
>>20954866
>>20954935
Cass Down Under

Centre-right politics in Australia is alert to the message of paediatrician Hilary Cass, who is about to make a virtual visit to the country

Bernard Lane - MAY 28, 2024

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Members of the centre-right Liberal Party in Australia's most populous state have endorsed a motion urging a ban on medicalised gender change for minors.

The motion, passed at Saturday's state council meeting of the party's New South Wales (NSW) division, calls on "the federal and state governments to ban chemical (drug) and surgical gender dysphoria treatment for minors due to the inability of a child to provide informed consent to these types of procedures."

The motion is not binding on the parliamentary Liberal Party, which is in opposition, but the overwhelming support shown by members and delegates on Saturday sends a signal to the leadership ahead of a vote on legislation that would allow minors easier access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

The NSW Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023, a private Bill introduced by independent member Alex Greenwich, would allow gender-distressed minors aged 16-17 to authorise their own irreversible hormone treatment, with risks including sterilisation and sexual dysfunction. The Bill would also permit doctors in some circumstances to give children younger than 16 puberty blockers without the knowledge or consent of parents.

Under centre-left Labor premier Chris Minns, the state of NSW continues the expansion in supply of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones begun by the previous Liberal health minister Brad Hazzard.

Last month, the Liberal opposition leader in Western Australia, Libby Mettam, announced a policy to prohibit medical gender transition for children under 16, should she be elected to govern.

"In light of the recent publication of the Cass review in the UK, a WA Liberal Government would ban the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone treatments and surgical intervention for children under the age of 16 for the purpose of gender transition," Ms Mettam said.

"We would also initiate a comprehensive review to examine the suitability of these interventions for treating gender incongruent children to ensure the treatment of young people and children with gender dysphoria is safe in the long and short term.

"This policy is consistent with recent restrictions on medical interventions for treatment of gender incongruent children in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Italy, the UK, and the US."

England's Cass report - which deplored the "remarkably weak evidence" for youth gender medicine and confirmed the experimental status of puberty blockers - was cited in support of Saturday's motion at the state council meeting of the NSW Liberals.

The motion, put up by the Coffs Harbour branch of the party, was carried by a show of hands, according to a person at the meeting, who estimated that perhaps a dozen of the 500-plus members and delegates in the room voted against the motion.

Upper house member Jacqui Munro, who describes herself as "the NSW Liberal Party's first LGBTQI+3 woman parliamentarian", reportedly spoke against the motion as contrary to a family's right to choose healthcare for children.

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#20954778 at 2024-06-02 05:55:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

>>20954768

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If you read the Cass report, you will note her surprise that gender medicine is not like any other medicine. Powerful drugs were introduced as routine treatment for children before any good evidence of their risk-benefit ratio or long-term effects. Puberty blockers are approved for hormone-dependent cancers, endometriosis and precocious (or premature) puberty. Their use with gender dysphoria is off-label. Children's hospitals across the world, including Australia, skipped clinical trials, offered gender-affirming care as the gold standard and only later launched research projects to get the missing data on safety and efficacy. Definitive results are years away.

Meanwhile, some European health authorities were worried enough to order a systematic review of the evidence base.

This is considered the best way to gauge the quality of research said to justify a treatment; the method for searching the scientific literature and rating the studies is upfront, alert for bias and repeatable by sceptics. Since 2019, there have been systematic reviews of the evidence for hormonal treatment of gender-distressed minors in Finland, Sweden, England, Germany and Florida. Cass had another done. Each of these reviews, undertaken independently, has concluded that the evidence base is very weak and uncertain, especially for puberty blockers, the effects of which on the adolescent brain are unknown.

How did reputable hospitals come to allow experimental treatment of children? Like the rest of us, the medical profession swims in the same cultural soup where trans rights are human rights and gender medicalisation is somehow progressive; scepticism is career-ending transphobia. Many otherwise thoughtful people have not thought to check the sources for alarming predictions that 50 per cent or so of trans youth will attempt suicide if they don't get gender-affirming care.

And from health ministers down to hospital managers, those worried about medicalisation of children have drawn comfort from the reassuring claim that all treatment strictly follows recognised guidelines. These clinical guidelines play an outsize role in gender medicine precisely because good quality evidence is absent. Systematic reviews sit at the top of the evidence pyramid; guidelines and other forms of bias-prone expert opinion are at the bottom.

Two of the three guidelines invoked in Australia are relied on by the health sector in many countries. These come from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and the Endocrine Society. The third, issued by the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne (RCH), has been the vehicle for importing and entrenching the gender-affirming model in Australia. Cass had these gender dysphoria guidelines independently evaluated. Only Finland's and Sweden's survived scrutiny. On the key measure of the rigour of their development, Sweden's scored 71 per cent; RCH was rated at 19 per cent. This is the document that persuaded our Family Court judges to wind back their supervision of treatment decisions involving minors.

The RCH guideline, which argues that psychosis in a child should not necessarily prevent medicalised gender change, drew heavily on those from WPATH and the Endocrine Society.

The most recent WPATH guideline, which introduced to the world a new eunuch gender identity calling for "medically necessary" castration, cites an RCH paper to bolster its evidence claims.

In fact, that 2019 paper contains no evidence but merely describes the hospital's belated research project, Trans20, which disarmingly admits the "urgent need for more evidence".

Cass notes this circularity whereby low-quality gender-affirming guidelines reference one another, creating "an apparent consensus on key areas of practice despite the evidence being poor".

Meagre evidence, no real consensus among clinicians and a risk of lifelong harm to children. If this isn't enough to prod our politicians towards a national inquiry, they may find it harder to ignore the negligence lawyers and medical indemnity insurers.

Bernard Lane, a former journalist with The Australian, writes the newsletter genderclinicnews.com

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/deceptive-promise-of-the-dutch-protocol/news-story/9b745c5e92eb10cef50b22943fdbcf57

https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/

https://cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CassReview_Final.pdf

#20954768 at 2024-06-02 05:51:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

>>20954706
>>20705542 (pb)
Trans 'lab leak' unleashed a scandalous medical experiment

Gender medicine is not like any other medicine. Powerful drugs used off-label and surgical castration have introduced to the world a new eunuch gender identity. Now the scientific foundations are emerging as threadbare.

Bernard Lane - April 13, 2024

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Equality Australia, a transgender activist lobby, issued a curious media statement this week deploring England's Cass review into the medicalisation of distressed minors alienated from their birth sex. The statement ran to almost 900 words, but none could be spared to spell out puberty blockers or synthetic cross-sex hormones.

Hiding behind the euphemism of gender-affirming care, the clinicians and activists quoted in the statement would have us believe the medical scandal documented by British pediatrician Hilary Cass is simply not relevant here in Australia. Yet it is, of course. Same hormonal drugs likely to sterilise minors and rob them of sexual pleasure as adults, same low-quality evidence base, same zealous affirmation of gender as the cause of distress.

Teenagers turn up at gender clinics primed with the diagnostic checklist for gender dysphoria, but the true causes of their unhap?piness may lie elsewhere. Maybe undiagnosed autism, awkward same-sex attraction, mental health disorders, past sex abuse or just the unsurprising confusion of teenage brains exposed to a pseudoscientific celebrity culture of gender diver?sity.

Cass can't pull the plug on social media, but the final report she released this week should be enough to shut down blockers and hormones as routine treatment for gender-distressed minors in England. More cautious, less medicalised treatment policies already have been adopted in Finland and Sweden; in the US, almost half the states - those run by Republicans - have restricted hormonal and surgical interventions for minors.

Elsewhere in what we call the developed world, ideologically qualified gender clinicians carry on regardless, affirming the latest disembodied gender identity of a troubled teenager and doing what can be done to create an opposite-sex facsimile with drugs and surgery. In Australia, private surgeons have performed double mastectomies on girls as young as 15 who imagine they can identify out of being female. Our federal and state governments still appear locked in uncritical expansion of gender-affirming medicine as if it were lifesaving. Cass is not the first to point out that the evidence to justify the "transition or suicide" campaign simply isn't there.

So, how did we end up here?

It has been likened to a lab leak. Cass explains: "Based on a single Dutch study, which suggested that puberty blockers may improve psychological wellbeing for a narrowly defined group of children with (gender dysphoria), the practice spread at pace to other countries." This "Dutch protocol" of not-too-early puberty blockers, followed by cross-sex hormones and surgery, entered the scientific literature not long before a troubling shift in the culture.

Around 2010-15, when teen?agers began to spend more time home on social media and less time in the rough and tumble of life outside, clinics started to witness an unprecedented explosion of would-be gender patients.

Before, the classic patient was one of the few males whose early childhood distress had not been resolved by time and normal development. Now, the typical profile internationally is a teenage girl with plenty of other problems but no early history of rejecting her birth sex. And now puberty, with its yuck factor, can be stopped - just like hitting a pause button - and there's time to explore cool gender identities. In melodramatic mode, activists even speak of "the wrong puberty" as inflicting irreversible harm.

But weaknesses in the Dutch research have become more obvious with time, and it isn't clear if the claimed mental health benefits even apply to today's very different patient group starting puberty blockers as young as ages eight to 12. In reality, blockers seem not a pause but the first step on a potentially lifelong medical path; international data suggests almost all those begun on blockers will go on to cross-sex hormones.

How can such young children consent to trading away future rights to having a family and sexual fulfilment for what may be short-run satisfaction with a new, unstable identity?

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