As I recently reported, the ruling by Justice Andrew Strum, against the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and its chief gender whisperer, Michelle Telfer, is a milestone in the fightback against the wholesale sterilisation and mutilation of vulnerable children. Most importantly, Strum tore a massive hole in the wall of ‘gender theory’. As he noted, the ‘theory’ is self-contradictory and almost entirely without evidence.
At the heart of his concerns was that Telfer – and the other expert witness who was identified only as a “senior clinical psychologist” – did not offer the court a coherent justification for their clinical practice. Telfer and the senior clinical psychologist, the judge noted, believe gender identity is “internal and immutable” and not open to external influence. But he observed “neither of those experts were able to point to any empirical or substantive basis for their opinion but, rather, only to anecdotal reports from transgender adults”.
According to Justice Strum, Telfer made assertions that seemed to contradict the idea that a child’s gender identity is immutable. Neither clinician could say at what age children have the capacity to know their “true” gender identity, but both were confident that in this case the child could do so when he was only six years old.
This goes to the rotten heart of ‘gender theory’. The weirdly dualist idea that there’s some kind of esoteric, immaterial ‘gender identity’ floating around inside each person. Imagine a doctor who testified that they were treating a patient according to their ‘soul’.
The questions raised by Justice Strum are important. At the heart of the issue is whether a young person’s gender identity is innate and immutable.
Or even whether such a thing exists, outside of one’s sex. There’s no evidence to suggest there is any such thing, and the ludicrous ‘gender theory’ was falsified, via grotesque experiments, almost as soon as it was formulated by the paedophile psychologist John Money.
The RCH’s own published data shows 25 per cent of its young patients have had eating disorders and 45 per cent have autistic traits. This is consistent with research elsewhere. Many of these young people seeking medical treatment from gender clinics have histories of adverse childhood experiences, including child abuse and family breakdown. Insisting these factors are quite independent of the young person’s identification as “trans” seems to fly in the face of all the evidence.
Study after study is tearing down the walls of academic bullshit used to shore up ‘gender theory’ and to justify the horrific, Mengele-lite, experimental surgeries and chemical castrations performed in its name.
This month a high-profile study in the US, led by a well-known proponent of gender-affirming care, Jo Olson-Kennedy, found no mental health benefits from puberty blockers.
The evidence against her pet theory was so bad that Olson-Kennedy tried to hide the results of the taxpayer-funded study.
So, what are the RCH going to do about it, now they’ve had strips torn off them by a judge? Apparently, keep right on mutilating children.
One might expect the chief executive or the board to announce that the hospital was treating the issues raised with the utmost seriousness. In a similar situation, other hospital boards might well have announced a formal, independent inquiry.
Instead, the hospital released a statement saying its gender service delivers a “world-leading, multidisciplinary model of care”.
‘World-leading’, in what world? Clown World, apparently.
Because, nearly everywhere else this grotesque ideology has got a foothold, governments are banning so-called ‘gender-affirming care’.
In Britain, after the landmark Cass Review, the Labour government has now banned the use of puberty blockers for the treatment of gender dysphoria outside a clinical trial. In Scandinavia and elsewhere, governments have taken a restrictive approach to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors, preferring a psychotherapeutic approach in the first instance. The treatment is now banned or restricted in 25 US states and, earlier this month, these laws were upheld as constiutional by the US Supreme Court in US v Skrmetti.
The conduct of the RCH is becoming so egregious that not only should its ‘gender clinic’ be shut down immediately, but its board should be dismissed for so obviously failing to exercise due diligence or duty of care. More than a few lawsuits, deregistrations, and even prison sentences, should not be out of the picture.
These monsters must pay for what they have done to children in the name of ideological derangement.
