Great article Laura. I hope a lot of people have seen it and taken action. Mr Faafois' odd ressurances yesterday should reassure no-one. To me it looks as if he doesn't know what is in his own bill. He aslo has no idea about the kind of medical activism that some people will be follwing up with. Far from offering exploratory care a senior LGBTQ+ psychologist says:
"It will be important into the future for affirming treatment teams and gender centres to evaluate when legal action may be required if children are not receiving adequate parental support. This may include hospitals advocating to courts for treatment if it is otherwise being refused by legal guardians (i.e., with regards to puberty suppression).
More broadly, it behoves all clinicians as mandated notifiers to consider when less-than-affirming approaches (either on the part of other clinicians or on the part of family members) may constitute forms of neglect, and to make reports as needed to the relevant bodies to ensure that young people receive the affirming clinical care that they need."
Great article Laura. I hope a lot of people have seen it and taken action. Mr Faafois' odd ressurances yesterday should reassure no-one. To me it looks as if he doesn't know what is in his own bill. He aslo has no idea about the kind of medical activism that some people will be follwing up with. Far from offering exploratory care a senior LGBTQ+ psychologist says:
"It will be important into the future for affirming treatment teams and gender centres to evaluate when legal action may be required if children are not receiving adequate parental support. This may include hospitals advocating to courts for treatment if it is otherwise being refused by legal guardians (i.e., with regards to puberty suppression).
More broadly, it behoves all clinicians as mandated notifiers to consider when less-than-affirming approaches (either on the part of other clinicians or on the part of family members) may constitute forms of neglect, and to make reports as needed to the relevant bodies to ensure that young people receive the affirming clinical care that they need."
https://www.psychology.org.au/for-members/publications/inpsych/2019/august/Supporting-transgender-and-non-binary-people-in-Au