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#21252006 at 2024-07-20 14:08:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

#36 - Part 42
Australian Politics and Society - Part 26
>>21131120 Cut-back deployment sends 'dangerous message' on ADF capability - The Albanese government has dramatically scaled back Australia's participation in America's biggest military exercise as the nation faces a decade-long capability crisis following years of under-investment in defence. Australia's contribution to the biennial Rim of the Pacific war games off Hawaii is the smallest in at least a decade, and comes amid Anthony Albanese's decision to skip next week's NATO summit in Washington in a move the Coalition has warned could signal an early election. The Australian Defence Force has sent just 320 personnel, a single warship and one P-8A maritime reconnaissance aircraft to RIMPAC 2024, which the US has hailed as its biggest yet. The contingent falls 80 per cent short of the nation's 2022 contribution, when the ADF provided 1600 personnel, three surface ships, a Collins-class submarine, two Poseidon aircraft, an army combat group, and a clearance diving team. It comes as the navy's fleet - already one of the oldest and smallest in decades - is decimated by defects, maintenance problems and a personnel crisis that shows no signs of abating.
>>21131124 Going AWOL at RIMPAC bares our lack of fight - "The biennial RIMPAC exercise, which runs for the next month, is by some distance the most important military exercise Australia participates in. Involving 29 nations, 40 surface ships, 150 aircraft and some 25,000 personnel, it is an exercise that China truly hates because it does more than any other to prepare countries across the region to repel any military adventurism from Beijing. China's state-run mouthpiece the Global Times fumes that this year's RIMPAC will "sabotage, not safeguard, peace and stability in the region" because the exercise will practise drills aimed at sinking a Chinese aircraft carrier. Yet at a time when the Albanese government claims the rise of China has delivered the most frightening strategic outlook in a generation, Australia cannot muster more than symbolic military support for this year's RIMPAC. At the last RIMPAC in 2022, we sent 1600 personnel, three warships, a Collins-class submarine, two P-8A Poseidon aircraft and an army amphibious combat group, together with mine warfare and clearance diving teams. This year we are sending 320 personnel, a single warship, and a single air force P-8A Poseidon maritime reconnaissance aircraft. In other words, Australia is providing one of the 40 surface ships involved in RIMPAC, just one of the 150 aircraft involved and just 1.29 per cent of the personnel. It is a shamefully microscopic contribution for a supposed ?middle power that spends $55bn on defence a year and harbours ambitions to become an operator of nuclear-powered submarines." - Cameron Stewart - theaustralian.com.au
>>21131140 Gender affirmative guidelines just an echo chamber, says UK expert - The British paediatrician who carried out a world-leading review of care models for children with gender distress has criticised trans healthcare guidelines as an "echo chamber" based on weak evidence that show no efficacy in alleviating the psychological distress of young people. Hilary Cass, who led the landmark review of gender-affirming care that prompted the UK's Nat?ional Health Service to ban the prescription of puberty blocker hormone drugs for children under 16, said that gender affirmative care guidelines around the world had not followed an evidence-based approach, and "sort of copy and paste off each other" in order to justify their medical approaches. Dr Cass, a former president of the UK's Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, participated in a panel live from the UK on Tuesday night, which was hosted by Australian psychiatrist Phillip Morris, the president of the ?National Association of Practising Psychiatrists, one of the first bodies to call for caution on experimental medical treatments and greater wholistic psychotherapy for young people with gender distress. Dr Cass criticised the activist World Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare for essentially suppressing evidence that the standards of care it ?devised were not evidence-based and showed no proof of alleviating the distress of children. "The evidence base is weak ... international guidelines have for the most part not followed standard evidence-based approaches," Dr Cass told the Australian seminar. "And it has influenced most other international guidelines. There is a sort of echo chamber of sort of copying and pasting off each other. The only guidelines that have taken an independent and evidence based ?approach are the Swedish and the Finnish guidelines."

#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.

#21251378 at 2024-07-20 12:34:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

#36 - Part 42
Australian Politics and Society - Part 26
>>21131120 Cut-back deployment sends 'dangerous message' on ADF capability - The Albanese government has dramatically scaled back Australia's participation in America's biggest military exercise as the nation faces a decade-long capability crisis following years of under-investment in defence. Australia's contribution to the biennial Rim of the Pacific war games off Hawaii is the smallest in at least a decade, and comes amid Anthony Albanese's decision to skip next week's NATO summit in Washington in a move the Coalition has warned could signal an early election. The Australian Defence Force has sent just 320 personnel, a single warship and one P-8A maritime reconnaissance aircraft to RIMPAC 2024, which the US has hailed as its biggest yet. The contingent falls 80 per cent short of the nation's 2022 contribution, when the ADF provided 1600 personnel, three surface ships, a Collins-class submarine, two Poseidon aircraft, an army combat group, and a clearance diving team. It comes as the navy's fleet - already one of the oldest and smallest in decades - is decimated by defects, maintenance problems and a personnel crisis that shows no signs of abating.
>>21131124 Going AWOL at RIMPAC bares our lack of fight - "The biennial RIMPAC exercise, which runs for the next month, is by some distance the most important military exercise Australia participates in. Involving 29 nations, 40 surface ships, 150 aircraft and some 25,000 personnel, it is an exercise that China truly hates because it does more than any other to prepare countries across the region to repel any military adventurism from Beijing. China's state-run mouthpiece the Global Times fumes that this year's RIMPAC will "sabotage, not safeguard, peace and stability in the region" because the exercise will practise drills aimed at sinking a Chinese aircraft carrier. Yet at a time when the Albanese government claims the rise of China has delivered the most frightening strategic outlook in a generation, Australia cannot muster more than symbolic military support for this year's RIMPAC. At the last RIMPAC in 2022, we sent 1600 personnel, three warships, a Collins-class submarine, two P-8A Poseidon aircraft and an army amphibious combat group, together with mine warfare and clearance diving teams. This year we are sending 320 personnel, a single warship, and a single air force P-8A Poseidon maritime reconnaissance aircraft. In other words, Australia is providing one of the 40 surface ships involved in RIMPAC, just one of the 150 aircraft involved and just 1.29 per cent of the personnel. It is a shamefully microscopic contribution for a supposed ?middle power that spends $55bn on defence a year and harbours ambitions to become an operator of nuclear-powered submarines." - Cameron Stewart - theaustralian.com.au
>>21131140 Gender affirmative guidelines just an echo chamber, says UK expert - The British paediatrician who carried out a world-leading review of care models for children with gender distress has criticised trans healthcare guidelines as an "echo chamber" based on weak evidence that show no efficacy in alleviating the psychological distress of young people. Hilary Cass, who led the landmark review of gender-affirming care that prompted the UK's Nat?ional Health Service to ban the prescription of puberty blocker hormone drugs for children under 16, said that gender affirmative care guidelines around the world had not followed an evidence-based approach, and "sort of copy and paste off each other" in order to justify their medical approaches. Dr Cass, a former president of the UK's Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, participated in a panel live from the UK on Tuesday night, which was hosted by Australian psychiatrist Phillip Morris, the president of the ?National Association of Practising Psychiatrists, one of the first bodies to call for caution on experimental medical treatments and greater wholistic psychotherapy for young people with gender distress. Dr Cass criticised the activist World Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare for essentially suppressing evidence that the standards of care it ?devised were not evidence-based and showed no proof of alleviating the distress of children. "The evidence base is weak ... international guidelines have for the most part not followed standard evidence-based approaches," Dr Cass told the Australian seminar. "And it has influenced most other international guidelines. There is a sort of echo chamber of sort of copying and pasting off each other. The only guidelines that have taken an independent and evidence based ?approach are the Swedish and the Finnish guidelines."

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

#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.

#21131140 at 2024-07-03 10:40:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

>>20954768
>>20954866
>>20954971
Gender affirmative guidelines just an echo chamber, says UK expert

NATASHA ROBINSON - 2 July 2024

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The British paediatrician who carried out a world-leading review of care models for children with gender distress has criticised trans healthcare guidelines as an "echo chamber" based on weak evidence that show no efficacy in alleviating the psychological distress of young people.

Hilary Cass, who led the landmark review of gender-affirming care that prompted the UK's Nat?ional Health Service to ban the prescription of puberty blocker hormone drugs for children under 16, said that gender affirmative care guidelines around the world had not followed an evidence-based approach, and "sort of copy and paste off each other" in order to justify their medical approaches.

Dr Cass, a former president of the UK's Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, participated in a panel live from the UK on Tuesday night, which was hosted by Australian psychiatrist Phillip Morris, the president of the ?National Association of Practising Psychiatrists, one of the first bodies to call for caution on experimental medical treatments and greater wholistic psychotherapy for young people with gender distress.

Dr Cass criticised the activist World Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare for essentially suppressing evidence that the standards of care it ?devised were not evidence-based and showed no proof of alleviating the distress of children.

These standards are followed by most of Australia's major children's hospitals that all frequently prescribe puberty blockers and hormone treatments to children and teenagers. Dr Cass noted in her independent report handed down in April that WPATH had been "highly influential in directing international practice, although its guidelines were found by the University of York's appraisal to lack developmental rigour and transparency". The Cass report included an appraisal by the University of York that analysed international gender affirmative care guidelines, including those of the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne. The review found the RCH's guidelines similarly lacked rigour and independence.

"The evidence base is weak ... international guidelines have for the most part not followed standard evidence-based approaches," Dr Cass told the Australian seminar. "And it has influenced most other international guidelines. There is a sort of echo chamber of sort of copying and pasting off each other. The only guidelines that have taken an independent and evidence based ?approach are the Swedish and the Finnish guidelines."

The Cass independent Review was commissioned following ?patient and whistleblower complaints that prompted the closure of London's flagship Gender Identity Development Service run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Cass said that complex clinical presentations including mental health ?issues and autism among children who presented at the GIDS were "overshadowed" when the children presented with gender distress. The pediatrician concluded that puberty blockers rather than acting as a "pause button" allowing children time to explore their identity, seem to lock them into a medicalised treatment pathway.

Dr Cass's final report endorsed a ?fundamental shift in approach away from medical intervention towards a holistic model that ?addresses other mental health problems the children may have.

(continued)

#20954995 at 2024-06-02 07:45:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

>>20954971

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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.

The NAPP takes a cautious approach to managing gender dysphoria, stating: "Individualised psycho-social interventions (e.g. psychoeducation, individual therapy, school-home liaison and family therapy) should be first-line treatments for young people with gender dysphoria/incongruence."

Outlining her policy, Western Australia's Liberal leader, Ms Mettam, said: "Appropriate, compassionate, comprehensive, and accessible psychotherapeutic support will be the first priority of a WA Liberal Government in treating young people with gender dysphoria."

She said a ban on hormonal and surgical interventions was urgently needed, given the rise in patient numbers at the Perth Children's Hospital gender clinic and international concern about harm to vulnerable young people.

"When experts are telling us the potential permanent side effects of these treatments can include infertility, sexual dysfunction, obesity, heart and liver disease, blood clots and atrophy of the genitals, we need to investigate," Ms Mettam said.

"In the meantime, we should be more cautious and careful when it comes to using these treatments on our children, that's why a ban first to allow for a comprehensive review is the right approach."

Last September, Canada's opposition Conservative Party adopted a resolution to prohibit medicalised gender change for minors. Delegates at the party's national convention in Quebec City passed the resolution with a Yes vote of 69 per cent.

The resolution says -

"A Conservative government will protect children by prohibiting life-altering medicinal or surgical interventions to treat gender confusion or dysphoria, and encourage positive mental and physical health support for all Canadians suffering from gender dysphoria and related mental health challenges."

In August last year, the national committee of America's Republican Party passed a resolution stating that children have a fundamental right to be protected from medicalised gender change and should be encouraged to "love and accept their bodies."

The resolution endorsed at the summer meeting of the Republican National Committee in Milwaukee claims that "sex-trait modification procedures" - puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and transgender surgery - are "permanent, risky, and experimental," with potential harms including infertility, low bone density and heart disease.

Last week, South Carolina became the 25th American state to restrict or prohibit medicalised gender change for minors.

GCN has sought comment from the NSW Liberal Party and Ms Munro

https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/Cass-down-under

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dr-Hilary-Cass-says-children-124223320.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/Hilary-Cass-i-cant-travel-on-public-transport-any-more-35pt0mvnh

The Dr Hilary Cass Report on Gender Dysphoria in the UK - is it relevant for Australia?

2nd July 2024 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm AEST

https://napp.org.au/the-Cass-report-webinar/

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Q Post #1735

Jul 27 2018 13:13:18 (EST)

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!
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/07/27/cbs-honcho-les-moonves-will-be-accused-sexual-misconduct-in-latest-ronan-farrow-bombshell-report-says.html
To those who are courageous enough to speak out - we stand with you!
You are not alone in this fight.
God bless.
Q

https://qanon.pub/#1735

#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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#20954866 at 2024-06-02 06:33:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

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People are in denial following the Cass report - it's like deprogramming cult members

The reactions of gender zealots to their folly being exposed range from notably silent to dangerously delusional

SUZANNE MOORE - 23 April 2024

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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.

Harvie keeps repeating the rubbish that we saw some of our MPs expressing in the House of Commons last week: that Cass ignored certain evidence (she didn't), that no one should debate the existence of trans people (we are not), that a four-year review of medical care is somehow in itself evidence of transphobic attitudes (you what?). Dawn Butler, Ben Bradshaw and Lloyd Russell-Moyle all embarrassed themselves. Stella Creasy, in her best "not so much angry as disappointed" manner, wanged on about all the "trans children" on waiting lists.

But where do all these "trans children" come from? At some point this cult has to ask itself this, surely? Even that glorified estate agent and twig painter Kirstie Allsopp and the singer, Mr Sexuality Billy Bragg have to question whether giving drugs that we use to castrate sex offenders to children is "kind". But no, they prefer self-righteous and deliberate ignorance.

Nothing that Cass said has not been voiced before: the whistle-blowers, the detransitioners, the clinicians who left in droves let us know. Puberty blockers were not used until 2011, but 10 years ago the prescription age was dropped to 11. Private doctors were giving them to nine-year-olds. What happened since? Well, part of the problem is lack of records and refusal to hand over data. This is either incompetence or a cover-up from the adult clinics.

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

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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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#20954706 at 2024-06-02 05:28:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

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Doctors blast opaqueness of gender clinics

JESS MALCOLM and MACKENZIE SCOTT - APRIL 12, 2024

Australia's major gender clinics have refused to confirm whether they are tracking long-term health outcomes of thousands of young children they have treated, despite a landmark British review that criticised the opaqueness and secrecy of the medical care.

Children's hospitals in NSW, Queensland and Victoria have given no indication they will be changing treatment options for young people with gender dysphoria, despite serious issues raised by the Cass review and growing international evidence over the safety and clinical effectiveness of the drugs.

As an increasing number of ?voices call for an independent inquiry into the prescription of ?puberty blockers to young teens, medical experts have urged Australian hospitals to release up-to-date information on treatment plans and long-term outcomes of hormone treatments, warning that the current lack of transparency is leading to harmful outcomes.

Clinicians have also hit out at the nation's peak body for transgender health, AusPATH, after it this week dismissed findings of the Cass review, saying that the medical body was "digging their heeds in" despite increasing alarm over the rising prescription of ?puberty-blocking drugs in young teenagers.

British health authorities in March banned the routine prescription of puberty blockers to young teens in response to interim findings of the Cass review, following extensive examination of the care being provided to children at London's Tavistock clinic.

Handing down her final report this week, chairwoman Hilary Cass found the entire field of medicine aimed at enabling children to change gender was "built on shaky foundations".

The Australian approached several gender clinics, including the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, The Children's Hospital in Sydney's Westmead, the Children's Health Queensland Gender Clinic and Maple Leaf House in Newcastle, NSW, asking how many children were being treated and whether institutions could detail their follow-up policies for previous patients.

The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne forwarded questions on patient figures and reaction to the Cass review to the Victoria Health Department, which failed to respond.

The question of follow-up procedures and outcomes was sent to the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, but a spokeswoman said the key researcher was away on leave.

Queensland Health refused to provide answers to the questions put forward by The Weekend Australian, citing an independent review of practices within the state's Children's Gender Service.

NSW Health did not directly respond to questions asked but provided figures on the number of patients seen in 2022 and 2023. In those two years, 294 patients under the age of 16 were treated by The Children's Hospital while 1787 people under the age of 25 were given care at Maple Leaf House.

Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine president Roberto D'Angelo warned of a lack of transparency around the treatment of young children with gender dysphoria, saying the inadequate sharing of clinical information was "one of the most serious failures noted by the Cass review".

AusPATH vice-president Portia Predney this week said the Cass review was "at odds with the current evidence base, expert consensus and majority of clinical guidelines around the world".

Paediatrician Dylan Wilson called on the commonwealth to immediately ban all new puberty blocker prescriptions, saying gender clinics had "absolutely no idea what state of health their former patients are in".

He also called for a review into why governments and heath organisations ignored the "warnings, red flags and whistle?blowers" expressing concern for the use of drugs on young ?children.

Melbourne-psychiatrist Alison Clayton said there was a lack of "publicly available information about the numbers of 18 year olds being prescribed puberty blockers, oestrogen or testosterone at the public child and adolescent gender clinics or at community or hospital adult clinics."

Sydney psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed said debate around the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones was being driven by identity politics rather than science.

He said gender issues were "ground zero of the culture wars".

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/doctors-blast-opaqueness-of-gender-clinics/news-story/09e329da4a537afde2af0fc3101348de

#20886283 at 2024-05-19 08:18:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

#35 - Part 22
Australian Politics and Society - Part 14
>>20705428 No transition from gender reality, app boss Sall Grover tells court - The founder of a women's-only social media app says she does not accept that a person who trans?itions from male to female surgically, socially and legally is a woman, and removed her from the app as she does with "all males". The view, held by Giggle for Girls app founder and CEO Sall Grover was described in court on Wednesday by Roxanne Tickle's legal team as being at the "heart" of the discrimination case. Ms Tickle, who underwent gender-affirming surgery in 2019 and is now designated as female on her birth certificate, will argue she was discriminated against on the grounds of gender identity by Giggle for Girls and Ms Grover when she was denied access to the app. Ms Tickle claims she was ?initially accepted into the app in February 2021 when she submitted a "selfie" through Giggle's third-party artificial intelligence tool but was later blocked by Ms Grover. It is the first time a case alleging gender identity discrimination has been heard by the Federal Court following changes to the Sex Discrimination Act in 2013, which made it unlawful to discriminate against a person on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status.
>>20705439 Landmark review rejects puberty blockers for children wanting to change gender - An entire field of medicine aimed at ?enabling children to change gender has been "built on shaky foundations", the chairwoman of a National Health Service review has concluded. Dr Hilary Cass found that there was no good evidence to support the global clinical practice of prescribing hormones to under-18s to halt puberty or transition to the opposite sex. This method of medical intervention for young people who identify as transgender has become embedded in clinical guidelines around the world over the past two decades. Thousands of children have received puberty blockers on the NHS since 2011, and referrals to its youth gender identity service have increased 100-fold in little over a decade. Cass, a former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, was commissioned by NHS ?England in 2020 to review services for children with gender dysphoria. Her final report has endorsed a ?fundamental shift in approach away from medical intervention towards a holistic model that addresses other mental health problems the children may have.

>>20705542 'Shaky foundations': England's health system to review all transgender treatment - England's publicly funded National Health Service will review all transgender treatment, after a landmark report said the evidence for allowing children and young people to change gender was built on "shaky foundations". On Wednesday, Dr Hilary Cass, a paediatrician, published her long-awaited review into the support and treatment offered to children who believe they are transgender, and cautions that extreme care should be taken before anyone under the age of 25 transitions. It also calls for an end to the prescribing of any powerful hormone drugs to those under 18; warns children who change gender may regret it; finds that many have experienced trauma, neglect and abuse; and says there is no "good evidence" on the long-term outcomes of the treatments that have been given to children. The review warns of pressures on families, with parents feeling forced to allow their children to transition so they are not labelled transphobic amid a "toxic" debate. Cass declares that "gender medicine for children and young people is built on shaky foundations".
>>20705580 Anthony Albanese under pressure to probe puberty blocker harms - Anthony Albanese is being urged to replicate a landmark British review into interventionist medical treatments that enable young children to change gender, amid increasing concern that puberty blockers may cause serious harm. The National Association of Practising Psychiatrists has urged the federal government to facilitate a national independent investigation into the use of treatments including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, warning their use should be ?approached with caution. The calls come after the release of an NHS review which found the entire field of medicine aimed at enabling children to change gender was "built on shaky foundations", with review chair Dr Hilary Cass finding there was no good evidence to support the practice of prescribing hormones to halt puberty. Pressure on the Prime Minister to act on the findings is growing in Australia with the federal opposition saying the results were "concerning" and should be taken seriously.

#16936337 at 2022-07-30 04:01:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition

Calls to review transgender treatment for kids after British Tavistock Clinic is closed

NATASHA ROBINSON - JULY 29, 2022

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Australian gender clinics are under fresh scrutiny and face calls for an independent review of their prescription of puberty blockers to teenagers after a leading British clinic was closed down over safety concerns.

The ordered close of the Tavistock Clinic - the model for treating trans people around the world - on Thursday followed concerns raised by doctors that young ?patients were being referred on to a gender transitioning path too quickly and that there was insufficient evidence as to the long-term cognitive and physical impacts of puberty blockers.

With several major Australian gender clinics based at children's hospitals having been strongly influenced by the Tavistock Clinic, some doctors say the findings of the British review by Dr Hilary Cass are likely to apply equally in Australia amid a dominance of a "gender affirming" approach to treating gender dysphoria.

Some of the nation's leading trans clinics, including the centre at the Royal Melbourne's Children Hospital, defended their methods on Friday and said they followed best Australian practice.

Queensland paediatrician Dylan Wilson said the closing of Tavistock should lead to Australian authorities reconsidering the treatment of children experiencing gender dysphoria.

"The concerns that have been raised with the UK Tavistock Clinic translate directly to the same concerns that can be applied to gender clinics here in Australia," Dr Wilson said.

"The fact that Dr Cass noted that there is insufficient evidence to recommend puberty blockers but they have been used by gender clinics in Australia is of huge concern.

"They are now only going to be used in the UK as part of research trials with significant ethical oversight which is the same pathway that Sweden has followed, but the gender clinics in Australia continue unabated to prescribe them on a regular basis without any oversight or scrutiny whatsoever.

"The concern is that children are, as the Cass report found, instantly socially and medically ?affirmed without any exploration of any other diagnoses or contributing factors to their gender identity being considered, which means as soon as they are ?affirmed as children that are transgender, they are placed along a pathway which leads them to medical treatment, and medical treatment pathway leads them to lifelong medicalisation."

The National Association of Practising Psychiatrists - which has adopted a cautious, psychotherapy-first approach to treating gender dysphoria - is also calling for a review of gender clinics in Australia.

"The longer-term studies of what happens to children and ?adolescents when they're treated with puberty blockers is not known. The evidence base is lacking," said association president Philip Morris.

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