1 week Ago By Elisabeth Taylor
A arly in April, the ABC reported that the South Australian government has ordered a review of the state’s gender services following the revelation that twenty-two children, aged between eleven and eighteen, had been prescribed gender-affirming hormones (GAH) without prior psychiatric assessment. According to Rebecca Graham, chief executive of the Women’s and Children’s Health Network, there were “no adverse outcomes” for the children. All but one had accepted the offer of a retrospective assessment, which confirmed their diagnosis and the rectitude of prescriptions.
For the ABC, this was a story about an inconsequential administrative error, soon corrected, and no harm done. While the twenty-two children medicated through South Australia’s gender services between July 2023 and July 2024 had been assessed by “senior mental health clinicians such as psychologists or senior nurses ..
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