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Medical professionals organised under the banner of First Do No Harm Southern Africa respond to criticisms of them by the Professional Association for Transgender Health South Africa and the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society.

Dr Matt Barber, who prescribes cross sex hormones and puberty blockers to adults and children, says hundreds of trans patients visit him at Brisbanes Stonewall Medical Centre each year. 

A Sydney woman is suing her former psychiatrist for professional negligence over the transgender treatment she received as a 19-year-old.

Australia’s governing body for psychiatrists has moved away from endorsing a “gender-affirmative approach” to treat the growing number of young people identifying as transgender, in its first specific policy on gender dysphoria.

Australia’s governing body for psychiatrists has moved away from endorsing a “gender-affirmative approach” to treat the growing number of young people identifying as transgender, in its first specific policy on gender dysphoria.

Australia’s governing body for psychiatrists has moved away from endorsing a “gender-affirmative approach” to treat the growing number of young people identifying as transgender, in its first specific policy on gender dysphoria.

Bigstock Claire – not her real name – was a perfectly happy child. She tended towards boyish pursuits, like soccer and taekwondo, but so did her mother, Sarah (also a pseudonym). So Sarah thought little of it. Her tomboyish daughter took after her. But her mental health plummeted as she became an adolescent: Sarah’s carefree girl was gone, as was the close relationship between mother and daughter. Just before Claire turned 18, she announced that she was transgender. “I would never have ...