The peak psychiatry college has become the first medical body in the country to acknowledge shifting international evidence on transgender healthcare and puberty blockers in a major position statement challenging the approach of children’s hospitals.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists declined to endorse genderaffirming care as the key intervention for children who believe they may be transgender, highlighting an increasingly cautious approach in some European countries amid a lack of evidence for the medical pathway.
It acknowledged the plight of detransitioners, who it noted had reported being harmed by medical transition.
If a person is ‘born in the wrong body’, why do they need to be infused with hormones from the other sex to believe their body will be the ‘right’ one? So they really mean they are not only ‘born in the wrong body’ but born with the wrong hormones plus whatever else makes them different from ‘the right body’? Also if there are ‘wrong’ and ‘right’ bodies, do hormones alone (apart from radical surgery) make the difference and if hormones from ‘the right body’ are infused into ‘the wrong body’ will this change the socialisation that has eventuated from being ‘in the wrong body’ from birth? So hormones can undo socialisation? And hormones can infuse ‘the wrong body’ with socialisation from ‘the right body’ even though the individual has not inhabited ‘the right body’ from birth? I suppose pharmaceutical companies can create miracles, but the miracle of infusing a body that has lived for 14+ years with hormones that can ‘undo’ the 14+ years of socialisation is more than a miracle.