My first run-in with trans activists occurred in 2020 when I, in all innocence, wrote a letter to the editor of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) magazine InPsych about the lack of a sound and comprehensive assessment process for the increasing number of young gender-questioning people I was seeing.
To their credit, the APS did publish the letter, and I took part in a podcast outlining my concerns. And then the backlash really hit. A formal complaint was made to the APS, which could have had serious consequences for me, but in 2021 the APS to their lasting credit became the first professional society in the world (to my knowledge) to support a clinician’s right to their clinical opinion in the contested field of gender.
I have had colleagues tell me about being referred to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, which has the authority to remove a clinician’s right to practise, simply for expressing concerns about GAC. Even when the complaint fails, the health professional is left with the impact of the stress and distress of the process, which has served as a warning to all practitioners to stay quiet.
Sex is binary: every person on the planet exists because an egg from a female was fertilised by sperm from a male. There are no in-between sexes that contribute to this system of reproduction: two and only two sexes, female and male, exist and maintain the survival of the human species.
Sex is immutable: just renaming body parts—“penis” as “ladydick”, for example—does not mean a person has changed sex.
A girl is a female child, a woman is an adult female, a boy is a male child, a man is an adult male.
Sex is universal, gender is cultural.
Source: No room for sex – by Sandra Pertot – Gender Clinic News