Doctor wrongly prescribed sex change treatments to seven transgender patients | Daily Mail Online

A retired consultant physician wrongly prescribed sex-change treatments to seven transgender patients – one who was aged just nine and another a teenager who took their own life few months later.

Dr Michael Webberley provided puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones via GenderGP, an online gender clinic which he ran with his GP wife Dr Helen Webberley.

A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel found a number of charges proved against him after he was accused of failing to provide good clinical care to seven patients between February 2017 and June 2019..

With all seven patients, he was found guilty of providing or allowing treatment that was ‘not clinically indicated’ or had been prescribed without adequate tests, examinations or assessments.

In summary, the tribunal found that on no occasion had Dr Webberley disagreed with diagnosis sought by each patient.

Source: Doctor wrongly prescribed sex change treatments to seven transgender patients | Daily Mail Online

LGBTQ+ community jubilant as world’s first competitive trans surfer destroys opposition to win one-sided women’s longboard contest; becomes first surfer in history to win men’s and women’s divisions!

The triumph was a sweet return for Lowerson who says she was close to killing herself a few months back, even had a few swings at it.

Depressed as hell, Lowerson gave up surfing, shaping, but once she decided to transition and the female hormones kicked in, woke up one day in February, felt a little better, called up Surfing Australia and said,

“Umm, this is me, the last time I competed in your Australian titles I was third, what are you going to do? I was pretty frank about it. We can do this two ways. We can do it together and make it amazing or we can do it terribly and it’s a circus and you guys are the only ones who are going to  come out looking silly… I’d prefer to not go through that.”

Source: LGBTQ+ community jubilant as world’s first competitive trans surfer destroys opposition to win one-sided women’s longboard contest; becomes first surfer in history to win men’s and women’s divisions!

Qld to criminalise coercive control – Lawyers Weekly

The Palaszczuk government has unveiled a “historic overhaul of laws and practices” to better protect Queensland women from domestic and family violence and hold perpetrators to account.

Included in the reforms are laws and programs to recognise, prevent and punish coercive control, including making coercive control a criminal offence, a commission of inquiry into police practices and expansion of the Domestic and Family Violence courts.

The state government will introduce a bill to criminalise coercive control by the end of 2023, the Premier and A-G said.

Ms Fentiman (pictured): “Our systems need to respond better to this unique form of violence and we need to shift our focus from responding to single incidents of violence to the pattern of abusive behaviour that occurs over time.

Source: Qld to criminalise coercive control – Lawyers Weekly

Trans debate: When even midwives are taught that men can give birth, I despair, MILLI HILL says | Daily Mail Online

No matter how determined we are to be inclusive, there are some limits to what different humans can do. And for a person with a penis, having a baby is one such limit.

A fact you’d imagine a midwife would know better than most. But the reality, it seems, is rather different.

So much so that a midwifery course at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland was recently outed by whistle­blowing students for attempting to teach them how to catheterise a penis.

Students were told their module on catheterisation — a procedure sometimes done during labour to drain the bladder — had been fully updated, because they ‘may be caring for a pregnant or birthing person who is transitioning from male to female and may still have external male genitalia’.

That’s right: a highly experienced midwifery lecturer with a PhD taught students that a male person could give birth.

Again and again, through my work as a writer and campaigner for women’s rights in childbirth, I have been approached with frankly dystopian stories s­howing how in thrall to trans rights midwifery has become.

For example, at one university, I’m reliably informed a visiting lecturer has told students they must refer to ‘birthing people’ rather than ‘women’ in their essays, or face their work ‘being looked upon less favourably’.

Other student midwives, from various courses, have told me they have been instructed to use the terms ‘childbearing individual’ or ‘pregnant people’ to be more ‘inclusive’.

This suggests a baffling lack of biological awareness. But it’s not only lobby groups or niche communities on social media who appear to be erasing women from issues concerning their own bodies — you will also see major birth and breastfeeding organisations, and even NHS trusts, falling over themselves to write posts and even policy documents that don’t mention women at all.

However, though the sex reassignment surgery industry is projected to be worth £1.2billion by 2026, the numbers of trans men giving birth are very low. In my own research I have heard of fewer than ten cases in the UK in the past five years.

So the chance of your average midwife ever encountering a pregnant person with a surgically constructed penis are smaller than minuscule.

Yet huge amounts of time and energy, not to mention money, are being put into resources to teach midwives about ‘i­nclusive language’.

None of this, sadly, surprises me. Back in November 2020, I questioned the term ‘birthing people’ in a social media post and was subjected to terrifying online attacks calling me a ‘terf’ — meaning a ‘trans exclusionary radical feminist’ — ‘toxic’ and a ‘dangerous piece of s***’.

There were calls to destroy my books, and I was publicly ostracised by leading figures and organisations from the world of childbirth.

It’s always amazing to me that midwives and antenatal teachers, often known for being firmly against the medicalisation of childbirth, are at the same time so captured by an ideology that supports puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and even surgery to remove body parts in young people distressed about their relationship to their sexed bodies.

Source: Trans debate: When even midwives are taught that men can give birth, I despair, MILLI HILL says | Daily Mail Online

EXCLUSIVE: Read the troubling story of how trans activists ‘groomed’ girl, 17, before she was helped to transition into a man after a ONE-HOUR ‘gender clinic’ consultation… and at 21 she wants to be FEMALE again

 

A troubled teenage girl who was provided drugs to gender reassign into a man following an hour-long consult with a ‘gender clinic’ is now fighting to reclaim her adult life as a woman.

Ms Hunter told Daily Mail Australia her daughter was ‘beguiled, groomed and kidnapped’ by the transgender community.

‘There will be a tsunami of kids like our daughter,’ she warned.

‘It is like being brainwashed in a cult and if you don’t go along with it you are punished.’

Three years after her journey to manhood began, Tanya admitted herself into a mental hospital on the verge of suicide.

Ms Hunter said her daughter begged her to help save her from what she had become.

By then, the testosterone that had pumped through her veins had wrought irreversible effects on Tanya’s body.

Her voice had deepened, her hairline receded and she had a significant redistribution of body fat.

Tanya’s female body had become masculine, including a massive increase of body and facial hair.

She now suffered ongoing vaginal atrophy and dryness, causing her significant pain and requiring constant medication.

Ms Hunter claimed her daughter’s story was not unique, with countless other parents sharing their horror stories with her.

The medical professionals who are telling teenage girls to have double mastectomies before they have reached adulthood are evil.

‘Telling our girls that being uncomfortable in puberty is a ‘medical condition’ have lost their moral and ethical compass. A generation of young people are being harmed and failed.’

Source: Trans teenage girl given drugs to change into a man wants FEMALE life back transgender activists | Daily Mail Online

An Open Letter to Australia’s Doctors

Many of you reading this will have little knowledge of what role paediatric endocrinologists have in treating children in this clinic. It may be that the first time it has come to your attention is during this election campaign, when old tweets by the Liberal candidate for Warringah, Katherine Deves came to light. In one she tweeted about “vulnerable children surgically mutilated and sterilised”. The uproar and backlash in the media was furious.

There is a simple reason why Ms. Deves tweeted about children being surgically mutilated and sterilised.

It’s because children are being surgically mutilated and sterilised.

Paediatric endocrinologists in gender clinics in Australia and around the world are taking a cohort of physically healthy children and they are suppressing the puberty of these children at its earliest active stage, Tanner Stage 2. Puberty for these children is never allowed to progress. The bodies of these children are frozen forever at this stage, even though they are growing chronologically older. Contrary to the popular belief, puberty blockers are not a “pause”. We now know that at least 98% of children who commence puberty blockers continue along the affirmative pathway onto cross sex hormones.

The Karolinska Institutet, the seat of the Nobel prize for medicine, has recommended immediate cessation of this pathway for all children under the age of 18. Even one of the original Dutch clinicians has expressed concern about the rest of the world adopting this pathway blindly.

The world has started to take notice of the problems this pathway brings and is undertaking a review.

It’s likely I will attract criticism about “politicising children”, given the election. But when are we going to have this conversation in Australia? When are we going to confront and acknowledge the reality of what we are doing to children, even if you’re convinced it’s the right path? If not now, when? When a critical number of those children look back on the life they’ve been given and ask why did it happen? It will be too late. It is already too late for some. Right now, in Australia, there are children, teenagers and adults among us who have been committed to this lifetime of medicalisation. I want to make sure there aren’t any more.

Source: An Open Letter to Australia’s Doctors

Trans and gender-diverse staff at Coles will now be given 10 days extra leave | Daily Mail Online

Trans and gender-diverse staff of supermarket chain Coles will be entitled to up to 10 days of paid gender affirmation leave.

  • Team members undergoing gender affirmation will be entitled to the leave
  • Coles Chief Legal and Safety Officer said 900 staff members are gender diverse
  • Coles confirmed the leave may be for medical or counselling purposes 

Source: Trans and gender-diverse staff at Coles will now be given 10 days extra leave | Daily Mail Online

10 days DV leave now accessible for millions of Australians

Handed down by the the Fair Work Commission yesterday, millions of Australians will be afforded 10 days’ paid domestic violence leave.

The bench disputed claims from the Master Grocers Association’s that paid FDV leave would act as a disincentive to employing women, deeming the argument “mere speculation”, and noting that such conduct would be wilfully unlawful.

“Scott Morrison must now match the commitment already made by Anthony Albanese to ensure that any of the 11 million Australian workers covered by the NES who needs to escape violence has paid leave to protect their homes and income while they protect themselves and their families,” ACTU president Michele O’Neil said.

Source: 10 days DV leave now accessible for millions of Australians