In Australia, public media outlet @abcnews has showcased children's hospital gender medicine for years. This treatment was found to be "experimental" in Keira Bell's court challenge to the UK Tavistock clinic. The ruling has global significance, but not on the ABC website.
In Australia, public media outlet @abcnews has showcased children's hospital gender medicine for years. This treatment was found to be "experimental" in Keira Bell's court challenge to the UK Tavistock clinic. The ruling has global significance, but not on the ABC website.
In Australia, public media outlet @abcnews has showcased children's hospital gender medicine for years. This treatment was found to be "experimental" in Keira Bell's court challenge to the UK Tavistock clinic. The ruling has global significance, but not on the ABC website.
Even before the Tavistock ruling, the UK had adopted a more cautious approach to this medicalisation. Finland & Sweden have edged away from the "gender affirming" medical model used in Oz. The pioneering Dutch clinic has expressed concern about a shift in patient profile.
Even before the Tavistock ruling, the UK had adopted a more cautious approach to this medicalisation. Finland & Sweden have edged away from the "gender affirming" medical model used in Oz. The pioneering Dutch clinic has expressed concern about a shift in patient profile.
Even before the Tavistock ruling, the UK had adopted a more cautious approach to this medicalisation. Finland & Sweden have edged away from the "gender affirming" medical model used in Oz. The pioneering Dutch clinic has expressed concern about a shift in patient profile.
But Australian readers were told back in April this was just a rightwing culture war, and that the gender medical model had prevailed. Now this Melbourne newspaper has had a "struggle session" with staff angry it ran the story of a worried (& obviously not bigoted) parent.
But Australian readers were told back in April this was just a rightwing culture war, and that the gender medical model had prevailed. Now this Melbourne newspaper has had a "struggle session" with staff angry it ran the story of a worried (& obviously not bigoted) parent.
But Australian readers were told back in April this was just a rightwing culture war, and that the gender medical model had prevailed. Now this Melbourne newspaper has had a "struggle session" with staff angry it ran the story of a worried (& obviously not bigoted) parent.
. @granskning, Sweden's counterpart to ABC @4corners, has done serious investigative reporting on youth gender clinics, so has @BBCNewsnight. In March, @4corners producer Sally Neighbour featured "generally reversible" puberty blockers and mastectomy for non-binary youth.
In 2019, ABC news told the story of Lottie, 9, whose parents "decided to stop fighting so hard against Lottie's gender identity" after "learning about those dire statistics (on the risk of trans youth attempting suicide)". https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-02/how-lotties-family-accepted-her-as-a-transgender-girl/10939348
'I didn't know little kids could be trans': How Lottie's family accepted her as a girl

When she was four, Lottie told her parents she wasn't a boy, but a transgender girl. They say she's "still just the same kid" — but they're keeping her gender identity a secret at school.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-02/how-lotties-family-accepted-her-as-a-transgender-girl/10939348
In the Tavistock case, the judges by implication rejected the suicide narrative: “Apart perhaps from lifesaving treatment, there will be no more profound medical decisions for children than whether to start on this treatment pathway.”

Low quality data: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/reason-lost-to-suicide-in-trans-debate/news-story/af31e3357a4ec08f9a3e91227b3424bf
Reason lost to suicide

I realised I had been fantasising about surgery non-stop, real scary, Lilian says, casting her mind back. Now she is 33 and a free-thinking lesbian, although she took the precaution of riding her...

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/reason-lost-to-suicide-in-trans-debate/news-story/af31e3357a4ec08f9a3e91227b3424bf
Parents who are fine with gender non-confirming kids but worried about medical treatment say the ABC won't tell their stories. And the ABC panders to the gender clinic narrative that only rightwing bigots are worried.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-17/uwa-cancels-talk-by-controversial-academic-transgender-views/10132400
Australia's biggest youth gender clinic, at @RCHMelbourne, has a page featuring its media coverage, which it calls "gender service media advocacy". The ABC accounts for more than half the items.
https://www.rch.org.au/adolescent-medicine/gender-service/The_Gender_Service_media_advocacy/
RCH & the Tavistock know the importance of media coverage & have researched the link between publicity & new referrals to their clinics.

I hope the ABC reports Keira Bell's case. Maybe it's already been on radio or TV, not picked up by website.

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