The Fiction of Gender Dysphoria

Update 565. #BeMorePorcupine.

I am jumping in here to bring you all an amazing and incredibly important judgment from Australia on puberty blockers. Since much of the news I bring from Australia is negative regarding the gender madness, I am delighted to bring this news.

Thanks to my wife for bringing this to my attention.

Dawn in The Outback

Thanks to Prof Patrick Parkinson on X:

A new decision from the Australian Family Court, Re Devin, spells the beginning of the end for the practice of prescribing puberty blockers to gender incongruent children in this country. Justice Strum severely criticised the clinicians at the hospital gender service, including a very senior paediatrician who, in extraordinary expert evidence, likened current restrictions on puberty blockers in England and elsewhere to the persecution of LGBT+ people by the Nazis. The judge found that the 12 year old boy did not have gender dysphoria, although he was exploring his gender identity, and that the hospital had failed to conduct necessary clinical assessments. The judge ordered that the child move from living with the mother to live with the father, and prohibited either parent from taking the child back to the gender service. He relied upon the Cass Review for saying that puberty blockers were not an appropriate treatment and rejected the idea that gender identity, especially in a child of this age, is innate and immutable.

https://x.com/ProfPParkinson/status/1909863509779005644

The full judgment is here:

https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/FedCFamC1F/2025/211.html

All thoughts gratefully received.

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