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Author | Smasher of gender stereotypes | The Gender Fairy | A House for Everyone | words in @GuardianAus @smh @ArcherMagazine @SBS
Aug 9, 2019 10 tweets 4 min read
Some facts The Australian “forgot” to mention while trying to punch down on trans kids and those who care for them today

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Meet Associate Professor Michelle Telfer 1/

blogs.rch.org.au/news/2019/07/1… The Australian Guidelines for Transgender Children which are evidence and research based have been considered so excellent they have been featured in the most prestigious medical journal in the world- @TheLancet 2/
thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/…
May 14, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
Thanking Kelly Winters and her team once again for another peer reviewed paper confirming that affirming trans and gender diverse kids is what helps them thrive
#protecttranskids

cfp.ca/content/64/5/3… “Globally, health care providers acknowledge that gender is “a matter of diversity, not pathology,”6 and gender identity is being formally recognized as a deeply personal and fundamental human right.7”