Youth transgender - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:47:23 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Youth transgender - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Warnings over surge in youth transgender cases https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/08/12/warnings-youth-transgender/ Mon, 12 Aug 2019 07:51:03 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=120252 Clinicians are calling for an ­urgent national inquiry into the safety and ethics of giving unproven hormone drug treatment to ever younger children who are confused about sex and gender. A detailed submission, arguing that risks including infertility and lifelong regret outweigh the ­benefits to trans children and teenagers, was sent yesterday to Health Minister Read more

Warnings over surge in youth transgender cases... Read more]]> Clinicians are calling for an ­urgent national inquiry into the safety and ethics of giving unproven hormone drug treatment to ever younger children who are confused about sex and gender.

A detailed submission, arguing that risks including infertility and lifelong regret outweigh the ­benefits to trans children and teenagers, was sent yesterday to Health Minister Greg Hunt and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

The first national figures, ­obtained under freedom of information legislation from major hospitals in NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland, show 2415 children were referred for gender treatment between 2014 and last year, with a 41 per cent increase in ­Victoria. Girls as young as nine are ­believed to be put on ­"puberty blocker" drugs, and boys from about 11. Read more

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