Around the world, clinicians and governments are backing away from the harms of gender affirming ‘care’.
- England’s only children’s gender clinic – The Tavistock – was forced to close in 2022 after a report found that young patients were at considerable risk of poor mental health and distress.
- Over 1000 former patients estimated to have cause to sue The Tavistock.
- Detransitioners in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and Europe are bringing negligence actions against doctors and therapists.
- Gerard Malouf Lawyers is exploring bringing a class action on behalf of Australian detransitioners.
- Finland, Sweden, Italy, France, Norway, UK, now restrict gender affirming care involving medicalisation or surgery on minors to extreme cases or clinical research.
- NAPP, Australia’s peak body for psychiatry, disagrees with the affirmation approach.
- Whistleblowing gender clinic child psychiatrists and paediatricians in Australia, are speaking out.
- MDA National – one of Australia’s top medical insurers, announced in May that it will no longer provide cover to practitioners in private practice providing gender affirming treatment for children and adolescents due to the ‘high risk of claims arising from irreversible treatments provided to those who medically and surgically transition as children and adolescents.’