Injecting gender confused children with puberty blockers and cross sex hormones must be immediately suspended following news last week that government guidelines had been breached, according to Family First.
South Australia’s child gender clinic, operating at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, has admitted that almost two dozen children were injected with the controversial chemicals without the required psychiatric assessment.
Family First’s lead Senate Candidate for South Australia, Christopher Brohier, said the latest example of an Australian child gender clinic operating outside the rules only compounded the on-going scandal of experimental gender treatment of children.
The head of South Australia's Women's and Children's Hospital, Rebecca Graham, has apologised and ordered a review of the state's “gender diversity” service.
However, Mr Brohier said this was not good enough and that injecting children with puberty blockers and cross sex hormones must be suspended, just as has occurred in Queensland after yet another rogue child gender clinic in Cairns was found to be injecting children without parental consent.
“It would be laughable if it were not so tragic that non-medically trained people like psychologists and nurses were allowed to refer kids for treatment that will lead to sterilisation, possibly osteo-porosis and increasing psychiatric problems without a psychiatrist seeing them first,” Mr Brohier said.
“It is sadder still that proponents keep trotting out the false and discredited argument that the risks of self-harm are ameliorated by this discredited treatment, when the evidence is that vulnerable people who have undergone such treatment have high risks of harm.
“The South Australian Health Minister is wrong to imply that the SA Guidelines are stringent. They are based on the discredited WPTAH and AUSPATH Guidelines. They are guidelines designed by activists and they harm kids.”
Family First calls on the SA Government to immediately ban the prescription of puberty blockers and shut down the SA Gender Clinic.
“If UK Labour’s Kier Starmer government can uphold the ban on injecting children with puberty blockers and keep its Tavistock child gender clinic shuttered, surely Peter Malinauskas could also be convinced to take an evidence-based approach,” Mr Brohier said.
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