NHMRC to develop new treatment guidelines for transgender youth
The NHMRC is to develop new national guidelines for transgender youth amid the ongoing debate about the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Announced…
Tag: Puberty blockers
A research black hole? Australia’s gender clinics and their patient outcomes
Last year, there was yet another eruption in the culture wars. It was the angry fallout of a research paper looking at so-called ‘desistence’ rates…
Bone density loss from puberty blockers ‘reversible’ in transgender patients
Bone density loss in teenagers with gender dysphoria prescribed puberty blockers is mostly reversible with long-term gender-affirming hormone treatment in adulthood, Dutch doctors report in a…
Why the Tavistock gender identity clinic is being shut down
Clinical judgements and the clinical counselling at the Tavistock Centre, which since 1989 has provided the UK’s only gender identity clinic for children and young…
Gender dysphoria: Puberty blockers court ruling thrown out
The case of Keira Bell made global headlines.
Gender dysphoria: Doctors lament ‘conveyor belt’ treatment for kids
A group of Sydney clinicians is concerned that families are pinning hopes on pills rather than broader psychosocial therapies.
Puberty blockers: Under-16s ‘highly unlikely’ to be Gillick competent
A High Court ruling in the UK raises ethical questions about their use for the treatment of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
Puberty-blocking linked with fewer suicides in transgender people
But only a small fraction of interested children receive the therapy, say researchers.
The difficulties of conducting ethical trials on puberty-blocking drugs
The ethics of research studies for young people with gender dysphoria are complicated, write Professor Julian Savulescu and Professor Domini…
