“Medical marijuana” has penetrated the paediatric market with potions for treating autism. Success has been declared on the bases of some observations, without any reference to the clinical effects of acute intoxication, or of chronic exposure on development and function of growing brains. The promotional material fails to mention any preceding studies on the brains […]

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Given the capacity of the brain to both heal and grow, known as 'plasticity', even intense challenges such as a natural disaster or by a death in the family may be 'tolerated' by children without lasting damage. But sometimes intensity and duration may intersect, with sustained toxic effect. This what we are seeing in far too many young Australians

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While society recognises adolescents should be denied access to alcohol, tattoos, driving cars and military service, Melbourne's Royal Children’s Hospital gender clinic insists children have access to what are described as 'reversible' puberty blockers. This is untrue and well known as such, yet 'Australian Story' preferred myth to a wealth of medical evidence

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The Medical Board of Victoria chose not to suspend a doctor charged with slavery offences and imposed a mere three-month suspension on another charged with raping a colleague. Compare and contrast those rulings with the lot of Dr Jereth Kok, who has had his livelihood stripped for the 'crime' of posting conservative views on social media

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We can’t say we were not warned: since 2017 Labor representatives have been announcing their intention to ban, if not criminalise, so-called “conversion therapy”. Back in 2017, the Victorian Health Minister, now Attorney-General, Jill Hennessy declared their new Health Complaints Act would “provide the means to deal with those who profit from the abhorrent practice […]

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A recent Family Court decision will prove as influential as it is to be regretted. As a consequence of the bitter family dispute over a natal boy's oestrogen treatments only the bravest parents and medical practitioners will be game to  pursue alternative, psychotherapeutic options for their gender-confused offspring

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The short march of childhood gender dysphoria though the Family Court In pursuit of Marxist revolution, Antonio Gramsci declared the primacy of winning the battle of ideas: of altering the “common sense” of society and its institutions. The German communist Rudi Dutschke declared the necessity for a “long march through the institutions”, alluding to the […]

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It is important to look more closely at the effects of 'puberty blockers' and cross-sex hormones because their use is fundamental to medical intervention in childhood gender dysphoria. Proponents maintain they are 'safe and entirely reversible' when they are nothing of the kind

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Given the push in Australia for gender-free sporting activities and boys' greater levels of aerobic fitness, strength, speed, agility and consequent prowess in most sports at most ages, girls should be asked what they think about taking the field against natal males. They aren't. Instead they're being told

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Conversion therapy, the ALP and gender dysphoric children. IT APPEARED a victory for common sense when the federal Australian Labor Party retreated from its publicised aim of criminalising the practice of “conversion and reparative therapies on LGBTIQ+ people” at its National Conference in Adelaide last December. Instead, it was a victory of dialectical cunning: instead […]

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