For the first time, it has been officially admitted that an Australian children’s hospital is referring patients to the private sector for transgender surgery such as removal of a girl’s healthy breasts.
The public gender clinic of the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne, which takes gender-distressed patients up to age 16, “may refer adolescents to a private specialist clinician to consider the appropriateness and need for surgery,” Mary-Anne Thomas, Minister for Health in the state of Victoria, said.1
Ms Thomas, who declares herself a proud feminist with “a passion for public policy”, was answering the latest in a string of formal questions on notice about the RCH gender clinic from Independent Liberal Party parliamentarian Moira Deeming.
“I told my then psychiatrist I wanted to break my nose with a hammer and that I wanted to cut off my breasts. One of these comments carried more weight. My body dysmorphic disorder never faded but my trans identity did.”—Melbourne detransitioner Mel Jefferies, who regrets her decision as a young woman to undergo a trans mastectomy, Twitter, 19 August 2024
Source: Out in the open – by Bernard Lane – Gender Clinic News