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'Most trans children will not regret their decision to take puberty blockers. Paediatric gender clinics in Australia and overseas recognise that children whose gender identity is stable upon entering puberty, and who have extreme distress when pubertal changes begin, will continue to be transgender. These are the very people who need puberty blockers. Yet the British court partly based their ruling on evidence that 85 per cent or more of trans youth will stop being trans once they have gone through puberty. This notion is profoundly wrong and based on very old data.
It’s not the only thing the court got wrong. It referred to gender dysphoria as a psychological condition when the World Health Organisation now accepts that being transgender is not a mental health condition. Gender diversity is not pathological. It is part of the normal human spectrum of existence. Trans kids are not disordered. [...]
The judgment lacks any compassion or acknowledgement of the level of distress that young people with gender dysphoria suffer. The judges seemed more concerned with the small possibility of regret than with the risks inherent in denying trans youth the chance to avoid permanent and devastating physical changes to their bodies.
The court did not seem to acknowledge the array of international guidelines that already exist for managing gender dysphoria in young people, all of which recommend the use of puberty blockers. Instead they have been guided by "experts" with track records of transphobia. And the voice of the young trans people who will be so deeply affected by this decision is missing.'
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/europe/cruel-ruling-shows-importance-of-caring-for-trans-youth-20201213-p56n2z.html
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