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2 Feb, 5 tweets, 3 min read
"Doctors and psychiatrists want the Andrews government (in the Australian state of Victoria) to make changes to its plan to ban gay conversion therapy, due to concerns it will discourage some practitioners from treating vulnerable patients."
theage.com.au/politics/victo…
This is significant criticism from the main medical body @amavictoria & college of psychiatry @RANZCP, which calls out the conflation of sexual orientation & gender identity that is the hallmark of activist-driven "conversion therapy" bans globally.
This concern raised by the college's Victorian branch is also interesting because the RANZCP's own policy arguably involves a more general, Queer Theory-style conflation of sexual orientation & gender identity.
ranzcp.org/news-policy/po…
That position statement 83 cites low-quality online unrepresentative surveys, claims puberty blockers are reversible & suggests they have "good outcomes". The @ranzcp policy on treatment of youth gender dysphoria is under review.
This news report from @TheAge is noteworthy because like @abcnews it has a track record of showcasing gender clinic medical treatments for minors & framing the conversion therapy debate as a simple case of progressives with science on their side up against the religious right.

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Two courts on the opposite side of the world recently made decisions on children & puberty blocker drugs which stop natural development. In the English case, the High Court said it was "highly unlikely" that a child 13 or under could consent to this "experimental" treatment. 1/
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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.
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.
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21 Nov 20
An American appeals court has ruled that "conversion therapy" bans offend the First Amendment right to free speech in the constitution. Here's a news report with the basic facts -- and significant omissions. This case looks important. THREAD

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
The two therapists who challenged the "conversion therapy" bans say they offer counselling: just talking. The Florida authorities lawmakers argue this does serious psychological harm to minors. Image
But these restrictive "ordinances" give a green light to one form of counselling. This "carveout" is a hallmark of the new-wave "LGBT conversion therapy" bans being pushed by "gender identity" activists around the world. Image
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17 Nov 20
Canada's Bill C-6 would criminalise "conversion therapy". This is part of an international project pitched as an urgent rescue of "LGBTQ people" from right-wing religious bigots bent on forcibly changing their identity.
cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
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In October, Chandler & Robert Dalton, acting CEO of @sportaustralia, the top government agency, were back in the Senate. In preamble to a question, Chandler reminded Dalton about his agency having kicked off the guideline project.
Dalton said: "If I can correct you ... the guidelines were in fact initiated by the human rights commission ... we supported the human rights commission."
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