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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...school-attack-caught-camera-says-bullied.html

A transgender girl accused of assaulting two students at a Texas high school alleges that she was being bullied and was merely fighting back

Shocking video shows a student identified by police as Travez Perry violently punching, kicking and stomping on a girl in the hallway of Tomball High School.

The female student was transported to the hospital along with a male student, whom Perry allegedly kicked in the face and knocked unconscious.

According to the police report, Perry - who goes by 'Millie' - told officers that the victim has been bullying her and had posted a photo of her on social media with a negative comment.

One Tomball High School parent whose daughter knows Perry said that the 18-year-old had been the target of a death threat.

'From what my daughter has said that the girl that was the bully had posted a picture of Millie saying people like this should die,' the mother, who asked not to be identified by name, told DailyMail.com.

When Perry appeared in court on assault charges, her attorney told a judge that the teen has been undergoing a difficult transition from male to female and that: 'There's more to this story than meets the eye.'

Perry is currently out on bond, according to authorities.

The video of the altercation sparked a widespread debate on social media as some claim Perry was justified in standing up to her alleged bullies and others condemn her use of violence.

The mother who spoke with DailyMail.com has been one of Millie's most ardent defenders on Facebook.

'I do not condone violence at all. But situations like this show that people now a days, not just kids, think they can post what they want. Or say what they want without thinking of who they are hurting,' she said.

'Nobody knows what Millie has gone through, and this could have just been a final straw for her. That is all speculation of course because I don't personally know her or her family, but as a parent and someone who is part of the LGBTQ community this girl needs help and support, not grown men online talking about her private parts and shaming and mocking her.'

One Facebook commenter summed up the views of many, writing: 'This was brutal, and severe! I was bullied for years and never attacked anyone!'

Multiple commenters rejected the gender transition defense and classified the attack as a male senselessly beating a female.

One woman wrote on Facebook: 'This person will get off because they're transitioning. This is an animal. She kicked, and stomped, and beat...not okay. Bullying is not acceptable, but kicking someone in the head. Punishment doesn't fit the crime.'

FB https://www.facebook.com/travez.perry http://archive.is/mnEmm

 

[#zzz]

It's more alarming to me that this was shown on ABC's 4-corners which is a respected current affairs show, a few weeks ago they exposed how expensive schools pay off families and "relocate" sexual abusive teachers in order to protect the schools reputation. And seeing this show clearly siding with the "psychologist"... who wants to bet thats where everything the child and mother have been saying has come from?

 

[Reverend]

Maybe it should be required reading. Might stop these kids following the wrong trends on twitter.

And there we have the problem with this fucking planet: Parent's overloading their children's brains with shit that doesn't fucking matter (TWITTER!) and letting them talk to people they have no business talking to (FACEBOOK), and being included in a global conversation when they can't even spell New World Order correctly (hint: it doesn't begin with the letter "J"). There is a time and place for children to learn and absorb information and parent's these days are plopping an iDevice into their lil sped's hands and letting the world babysit them. All it does is confuse them even more and then we get the OP above.

Your children and not Ender fucking Wiggin and stop letting Apple, Google, Twitter, and Zuckerdrone manage your fucking children's brains and time. I"m not saying remove it entirely, manage and parent properly. I dread seeing what the Zoomer's and Hipsters do when their children are literal goddamn zombies jacked into the matrix 24/7, they going to hearken for the days of sock hops, soda fountains, and jazz records?

 

[Silence of the Troons]

'I am non-binary, which means I have no gender. I am just me,' Olivia told the program, titled 'Not a Boy, Not a Girl'.

'The world basically revolves around boxes and those two boxes are a male and a female box.

'People try to duct tape the box so then you'll stay like that. But I cut the duct tape and opened up into my own box.'

And in ten years she will not just be a woman if she stays on puberty blockers long enough: she will be an infertile woman with the same maturity level as now. She sure has opened up into a new box

There's another article where the mother mentions that, surprise, her daughter was stressed about growing breasts.

So are they gonna buy her a bottle of vodka when she wants one at 11, because she's stressed and needs a drink?

No, that's impossible. Alcohol and tattoos, another thing which minors usually aren't allowed to get, are severely damaging to children (unlike horse piss hormones)

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Outside of sex cults, was there in history a worse type of parents than modern ones?

 

[Xiphias]

Four corners story linked to $6m gender clinic grant
"Positive publicity from an ABC Four Corners program may have been worth 6 million to Australia's busiest youth gender clinic."

Behind a paywall, unfortunately.

 

[#zzz]

And there we have the problem with this fucking planet: Parent's overloading their children's brains with shit that doesn't fucking matter (TWITTER!) and letting them talk to people they have no business talking to (FACEBOOK), and being included in a global conversation when they can't even spell New World Order correctly (hint: it doesn't begin with the letter "J"). There is a time and place for children to learn and absorb information and parent's these days are plopping an iDevice into their lil sped's hands and letting the world babysit them. All it does is confuse them even more and then we get the OP above.

Well you could blame facebook and the like, but then they take their kids to the professionals, and they are saying the same thing, and probably running the facebook group too, so these parents don't want to be "bigoted nazis", so they bend the knee.

 

[Shield Breaker]

There's another article where the mother mentions that, surprise, her daughter was stressed about growing breasts.

Pretty sure that was most of us at that age.

 

[Reverend]

Well you could blame facebook and the like, but then they take their kids to the professionals, and they are saying the same thing, and probably running the facebook group too, so these parents don't want to be "bigoted nazis", so they bend the knee.

If your therapist is on facebook you can see what they like, dislike, and preach about. If they are sperging at the same shit as the rest, find a new therapist.

I don't care what name I get called, fuck the other parents, my child's future is vastly more important than society's dim view of me and how...'barbaric' I raised my children.

Outside of sex cults, was there in history a worse type of parents than modern ones?

Children raised by Scientologiy.

 

[BeboRefugee]

When are we going to acknowledge the slippery slope isn't a fallacy but in fact is proven correct at every turn?

5 years ago gay marriage was legalised, but that freed up the energies of LGBT to go full on with gender identity drama (even though LGB don't benefit at all, and if anything are actively harmed by what T pushes).
Now, gender is something to be questioned and deconstructed. Several countries now punish people for misgendering, and there's an active push to create a whole class of pariahs, shackled to the cause by hormone altering drugs and castrative surgery.

What we're seeing with non-binary is a symptom of all this trouble. Humans are sexual beings. That's nature. Even plants are sexual. Being non-binary just means you declare an intent to be sexless, which is only possible through artificial means (or dying young). It's not a choice to be validated or encouraged. This isn't a go at asexual people, or intersex individuals, everyone acknowledges these people, but they still exist within the gender binary-- just exceptional (in genuine terms) cases.
Non-binary and the assorted tumblr genders stem from the natural adolescent instinct to be unique and exceptional (in kiwi terms). How else do you go a step beyond going from A to B? Go to C! Carve out a 3rd way, even transcend any notions of gender-- even if nobody knows what that means.

10 years ago the kid in OP would have been a goth or something and I mean that unironically. What this comes down to is a generation of zoomers being brought up in an environment where they're told, if you get the work done, gender can be a choice-- contrast this with every other generation in human history, who saw it as immovable as the passage of time or colour of your eyes.

Children, disproportionately ones suffering with bipolar disorder, dissociation and autism, are actively encouraged by medical professionals as well as the state to stop puberty and begin life-altering transitions which are very adult, and still very experimental, with a sky high rate of complication. And if the parents object to this, being responsible guardians, there are cases where they have been overridden. The child almost never has the final say in any other scenario but can somehow consent to this? Before they even understand what sex is?

This would have been an Onion article a few years ago.
It bothers me because what it actually seems to be doing is experimenting on young people that are already prone to feeling insecure. Plenty of gay kiwis will agree that puberty was a stressful and anxiety-ridden time, but even if you're straight, everybody has issues during adolescence.
Adding expensive, exhaustive surgery into the mix won't improve matters.

It's kind of ironic and sad that the progressive movements of the last 120 years have been all about trying to demonstrate that women can be just as daring and clever and ruthless as men, and men can be just as compassionate and auditory and detail-oriented as women, yet the gender debate has involved funnelling anyone that deviates too far from preconceived gender roles into transitioning.

Anyway that was my blog. Can't really complain about this stuff anywhere else, but I can't understand how any of this can end well or be sustainable for the victims.

 

[BeboRefugee]

If your therapist is on facebook you can see what they like, dislike, and preach about. If they are sperging at the same shit as the rest, find a new therapist.

I don't care what name I get called, fuck the other parents, my child's future is vastly more important than society's dim view of me and how...'barbaric' I raised my children.



Children raised by Scientologiy.

Scientologists have sunk-cost fallacy, at least your body is still yours (though your bank details O_O)

 

[Reverend]

Scientologists have sunk-cost fallacy, at least your body is still yours (though your bank details O_O)

No your body isn't yours, it's inhabited by Thetans, spirits of tax collections, dentists, and gov't agents that were all trapped in refrigerator like coffins and dropped into volcanoes which then had atomic bombs piledriven into them on earth millions of years ago .

You think I'm joking.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

And in ten years she will not just be a woman if she stays on puberty blockers long enough: she will be an infertile woman with the same maturity level as now. She sure has opened up into a new box

There's another article where the mother mentions that, surprise, her daughter was stressed about growing breasts.No, that's impossible. Alcohol and tattoos, another thing which minors usually aren't allowed to get, are severely damaging to children (unlike horse piss hormones)

You know, I'd think if your daughter is stressed about growing breasts, she's either being force fed all that feminist "all men want to rape you" stuff, OR she's being sexually abused and is scared her breasts are gonna make things worse. I know it's different for everybody, but no one I remember was stressed about boobs (other than cup size), they were more concerned about the fact blood was pouring from them once a month. Maybe this lady needs to look into her family or her child's search history. Nah, that's too much work and effort.

 

[OttoWest]

You know, I'd think if your daughter is stressed about growing breasts, she's either being force fed all that feminist "all men want to rape you" stuff, OR she's being sexually abused and is scared her breasts are gonna make things worse.

It doesn't need to be either extreme. Growing too early and you’re singled out; too late and you’re singled out. Physical differences, even the most natural ones, are gold mines for ridicule amongst peers at that age.

Spoiler: PL

My parents weren’t helicopter harpies filling my head with fears nor was I ever abused. Puberty still sucked. It still meant adult male attention at way too young an age— I remember getting catcalled while riding my bike— three adult men in a pickup. I was 10.

Scientologists have sunk-cost fallacy, at least your body is still yours (though your bank details O_O)

I take it you’re unfamiliar with Sea Org and the billion year contract?

 

[BeboRefugee]

No your body isn't yours, it's inhabited by Thetans, spirits of tax collections, dentists, and gov't agents that were all trapped in refrigerator like coffins and dropped into volcanoes which then had atomic bombs piledriven into them on earth millions of years ago .

You think I'm joking.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=seRY6EcLGLs

That's all made up though, isn't it?

Inb4 they give a scan and tell the teenager with body dysmorphia that all the Thetans in his body are clustered around the groin area

 

[frozenrunner]

I don't think sexually or mentally healthy people spend much, if any time thinking about their sexual identity, and to do so at age 11 isn't just unusual, it's alarming. That sort of thing is indicative of sexual abuse at worst and being manipulated at best.

Thinking about your sexual identity at 11 probably isn't that unusual, given (possible) onset of puberty at that age. You're thinking about every aspect of your identity at 11. You don't know who you are, and you're wondering. You're looking everywhere, inside of you and at the outside world, for the answer.

Emphasis on "you don't know who you are" at that age. These sick people encouraging this, obsessed with thinking well of themselves and out-woking the people around them, they're ruining these kids' lives before they've even begun. And they don't care.

When the vast majority of these kids grow up and realize they're merely gay or were going through a phase or whatever, when they start killing themselves, when they start filing lawsuits against doctors and therapists and their psycho parents... these fucking awful people will deflect all of the accusations, accept none of the blame, and they'll point to some vague boogyman instead. For fundies, it's always the Devil. For these fundamentalist weirdos, it will be "Nazis," or "the alt-right," or (Godbear help us) muh GamerGate. Just like latter day Marxists, they'll accept no responsibility at all for the terrible things their people have done. They'll try to silence people who speak out about what they've done, and they'll lie about their parts in it, and they'll each remain a mortifying embarrassment to everyone unfortunate enough to love them until the day they leave the faith or die.

These people are fanatical monsters. I hope they're as vilified in America someday as the fundies have been. They're much worse.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

When are we going to acknowledge the slippery slope isn't a fallacy but in fact is proven correct at every turn?

5 years ago gay marriage was legalised, but that freed up the energies of LGBT to go full on with gender identity drama (even though LGB don't benefit at all, and if anything are actively harmed by what T pushes).
Now, gender is something to be questioned and deconstructed. Several countries now punish people for misgendering, and there's an active push to create a whole class of pariahs, shackled to the cause by hormone altering drugs and castrative surgery.

What we're seeing with non-binary is a symptom of all this trouble. Humans are sexual beings. That's nature. Even plants are sexual. Being non-binary just means you declare an intent to be sexless, which is only possible through artificial means (or dying young). It's not a choice to be validated or encouraged. This isn't a go at asexual people, or intersex individuals, everyone acknowledges these people, but they still exist within the gender binary-- just exceptional (in genuine terms) cases.
Non-binary and the assorted tumblr genders stem from the natural adolescent instinct to be unique and exceptional (in kiwi terms). How else do you go a step beyond going from A to B? Go to C! Carve out a 3rd way, even transcend any notions of gender-- even if nobody knows what that means.

10 years ago the kid in OP would have been a goth or something and I mean that unironically. What this comes down to is a generation of zoomers being brought up in an environment where they're told, if you get the work done, gender can be a choice-- contrast this with every other generation in human history, who saw it as immovable as the passage of time or colour of your eyes.

Children, disproportionately ones suffering with bipolar disorder, dissociation and autism, are actively encouraged by medical professionals as well as the state to stop puberty and begin life-altering transitions which are very adult, and still very experimental, with a sky high rate of complication. And if the parents object to this, being responsible guardians, there are cases where they have been overridden. The child almost never has the final say in any other scenario but can somehow consent to this? Before they even understand what sex is?

This would have been an Onion article a few years ago.
It bothers me because what it actually seems to be doing is experimenting on young people that are already prone to feeling insecure. Plenty of gay kiwis will agree that puberty was a stressful and anxiety-ridden time, but even if you're straight, everybody has issues during adolescence.
Adding expensive, exhaustive surgery into the mix won't improve matters.

It's kind of ironic and sad that the progressive movements of the last 120 years have been all about trying to demonstrate that women can be just as daring and clever and ruthless as men, and men can be just as compassionate and auditory and detail-oriented as women, yet the gender debate has involved funnelling anyone that deviates too far from preconceived gender roles into transitioning.

Anyway that was my blog. Can't really complain about this stuff anywhere else, but I can't understand how any of this can end well or be sustainable for the victims.

And yet these loons would consider talking kids out of it "conversion therapy", when in reality... If this confused kid really does just turn out to be gay or effeminate or a tomboy (agps and such not counted, of course), isn't overriding parents (who are legally obligated to keep you from doing dangerous stupid shit) and giving an impulsive, emotional, immature person full reins on their medical health (that they (AND THEIR "DOCTORS") don't even fully understand) to be experimented on and butchered, the REAL conversion therapy? How is this shit any different than having a gay teen touched by a back alley whore while being shot up with feel-good drugs in an attempt to create a Pavlovian response to opposite-sex touch? How many of these "trans/nb" kids are going to go to their parents and the world and scream "I was just gay, why did you let me do that?" (and then be silenced by the hivemind who don't want to see the facts I don't want it to happen but goddamn I'm being optimistic as hell. Even lobotomies stopped at some point, right?) At the very least, in my generation, our "phase" left us with cringey scene photos and maybe some ugly arm scars, but at least I was allowed to mature, with solid bones, a decent map of what I am, and intact genitals

 

[Socrates]

I guarantee there will be collective amnesia regarding this whole thing in a decade or so.

"What do you mean we convinced you as a child to do irreparable harm to your reproductive and endocrine systems? I think you've been reading too many nazi websites. Wait you're suing us? Funny, we have this little informed consent form just lying around here, and it has your signature on it. Where could that have come from?"

These children will be dumped the moment they are no longer politically useful to the ruling class.

 

[Marvin]

I can't believe we went for like 150 years or so when pre-puberty castration was bad, now it's "well, as long as they consent..."

I was reading on reddit about a girl who looked and acted masculine, and it turned out in her "letter to self" at the end of freshman year, she was being raped by he stepfather every night "I want to get out of this godforsaken hellhole" so looking and acting masculine was her attempt at turning him off and making him stop. But today they'd turn a blind eye and insist she's "just trans", csa be damned. What is this goddamn world coming to?

ETA: This news story should be turned into an ad for condoms.

That's not at all uncommon. There's a high rate of sexual victimization among self identified transmen. Likewise, a high rate of autism in self identified transwomen.

Huh, why don't we pull on this thread...? Nope, that'd be transphobic, of course.

When are we going to acknowledge the slippery slope isn't a fallacy but in fact is proven correct at every turn?

The slippery slope fallacy is a real logical fallacy. It exists when the person arguing isn't establishing that the intervening steps from start to finish are likely to happen.

So for example, all this goofy shit regarding tranny shit, it doesn't establish that gay marriage was a bad move. What's the right answer? Just have gay marriage and outlaw childhood gender transitioning, of course.

And yet these loons would consider talking kids out of it "conversion therapy", when in reality... If this confused kid really does just turn out to be gay or effeminate or a tomboy (agps and such not counted, of course), isn't overriding parents (who are legally obligated to keep you from doing dangerous stupid shit) and giving an impulsive, emotional, immature person full reins on their medical health (that they (AND THEIR "DOCTORS") don't even fully understand) to be experimented on and butchered, the REAL conversion therapy? How is this shit any different than having a gay teen touched by a back alley whore while being shot up with feel-good drugs in an attempt to create a Pavlovian response to opposite-sex touch? How many of these "trans/nb" kids are going to go to their parents and the world and scream "I was just gay, why did you let me do that?" (and then be silenced by the hivemind who don't want to see the facts I don't want it to happen but goddamn I'm being optimistic as hell. Even lobotomies stopped at some point, right?) At the very least, in my generation, our "phase" left us with cringey scene photos and maybe some ugly arm scars, but at least I was allowed to mature, with solid bones, a decent map of what I am, and intact genitals

Oh, and the fucked up thing is that they're passing laws outlawing LGBT conversion therapy. All these fucks keep saying "well, you're supposed to get therapy before transitioning to make sure it's the right move". Except now they're outlawing any therapy that isn't "oh you're totally trans, here's a script for titty skittles". They're being sneaky by sneaking the T in there with LGB conversion therapy.

Some fundie quack taking a tazer to your son's balls because he likes dick? Yeah, that's abusive and should be outlawed.

But making sure kids really are trannies* before giving them drugs and hormones? Medically responsible and should be mandatory, at the very least.

* Whatever the fuck "really are trannies" means.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

You know, I'd think if your daughter is stressed about growing breasts, she's either being force fed all that feminist "all men want to rape you" stuff, OR she's being sexually abused and is scared her breasts are gonna make things worse. I know it's different for everybody, but no one I remember was stressed about boobs (other than cup size), they were more concerned about the fact blood was pouring from them once a month. Maybe this lady needs to look into her family or her child's search history. Nah, that's too much work and effort.

Nah, it's pretty normal that a tweenage girl to get distressed over her starting breast without abuse or paranoia. Budding breast can acke, bras can be hard to figure out, you can feel behind or way advanced to other girls and it's just sign among others like your first period that puberty is strating and you are growing up. It's honestly really common that girls feel bad or very least confused about breast development.

 

[Safir]

Four corners story linked to $6m gender clinic grant
"Positive publicity from an ABC Four Corners program may have been worth 6 million to Australia's busiest youth gender clinic."

Behind a paywall, unfortunately.

Four Corners story linked to $6m grant for Australia’s busiest kids’ gender clinic


Positive publicity from an ABC Four Corners program may have been worth $6 million to Australia’s busiest youth gender clinic.
Paediatrician Michelle Telfer, clinic director at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, said it was “really interesting” that the TV program, called Being Me and featuring two “intelligent, articulate” transgender girls from her clinic, went to air just before the 2014 state election won by Labor’s Daniel Andrews.
The Telfer clinic had lobbied both the outgoing Napthine Coalition administration and the opposition after a dramatic surge in new referrals of vulnerable children.

Six months later, the Andrews government announced a special, “life-saving” injection of $6 million over four years for Dr Telfer’s clinic, so she could cut waiting times for “gender affirmative” treatment, which includes drugs to block puberty and opposite-sex hormones for young people who believe they were “born in the wrong body”.
“It’s the personal stories that make the difference,” Dr Telfer told Victoria’s mental health royal commission in July, just before The Australian began reporting global concern about the safety and ethics of the “affirmative” transgender medical model.
In August, federal Health Minister Greg Hunt called for urgent advice on this patient safety question from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and a month later the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists disendorsed RCH “world’s most progressive” treatment standards for trans youth, pending “further review” of evidence.
On Monday, Four Corners returns to the topic with a program called Not a Boy, Not a Girl, in which Olivia, 11, says: “I am non-binary, which means I have no gender”.
Another non-binary person, Riley, 22, implies that the explosion in the atypical teenage caseload at gender clinics has nothing to do with social contagion via friendship groups and online platforms such as reddit and YouTube.
“No-one would transition because it’s a fad — because it’s actually an awful experience and just generally in society you are ostracised,” Riley says.
The program, produced by investigative journalist Janine Cohen, quotes a psychiatrist who suggests gender identities such as non-binary are not just made up — “I think non-binary people have existed as long as we have. But up until more recently there hasn’t been a language for it”.
Ms Cohen also produced the 2016 ABC Australian Story program, About a Girl, featuring a high-profile patient of Dr Telfer’s and an introduction by Premier Andrews.
Ms Cohen was the reporter on the 2014 Being Me program, which quotes Dr Telfer as saying puberty blockers give patients “time to think about what you want to do in the long term”, while easing the distress of puberty.

One way ticket?

Overseas studies suggest the vast majority of patients who start on puberty blockers, around the age of 10-12, go on to irreversible cross-sex hormones, with side-effects including infertility, loss of sexual pleasure, cardiovascular problems and possibly damage to the growing brain.
In its only public statement so far, RCH said in December that its gender clinicians were “leaders in their field” who offered treatment “based on the best available medical evidence”.
The 2014 Four Corners program does not mention any downside to puberty blockers, and Dr Telfer suggests to viewers that the “very small” chance of a child growing up to regret hormonal treatment is outweighed by the “extremely high” risk of suicide without affirmative care.
The emerging trend of regretful young adult “detransitioners”, and intensifying global scrutiny of the trans youth medical model, have been little reported in most media outlets.
Under its website listing for “media advocacy”, the Telfer clinic includes nine positive ABC broadcasts and reports.
A search of the ABC website gives 12,900 results for the word “transgender” but none for “detransitioners”.

In Britain and Sweden, sceptical coverage of youth gender clinics — with public broadcasters doing investigative reports on puberty blockers, detransitioning and exaggerated suicide statistics — may help explain signs of a peak in patient numbers.
In Stockholm’s youth gender clinic, there was a drop-off in new referrals in 2018, according to new data.
In May that year, the Swedish press began publishing critical commentaries following a national inquiry proposal to lower the minimum age for trans genital surgery from 18 to 15, said a prominent child and adolescent psychiatrist Sven Roman.
In 2019, he said, two critical documentaries by Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT — with the series title The Trans Train — were “widely watched”.
“I think that (following this media coverage) the awareness in our society of the problems with the treatment of gender dysphoria is the main reason for the decline (in new referrals),” he said.
Dr Roman was among a group of practitioners and clinicians — including the internationally renowned neuropsychiatrist and researcher Christopher Gillberg — to raise the alarm in Sweden.
In the UK, new referrals to the NHS Tavistock youth gender clinic seem to have peaked in the third quarter of 2018-19, according to data published in January.
Media scrutiny of the Tavistock clinic has come from The Times, The Economist, The Observer, The Daily Mail, Sky News and the BBC’s flagship investigative program Newsnight, with its medically trained journalist Deborah Cohen also reporting on the puberty blockers controversy in the British Medical Journal.

On Sunday, the BBC reported the go-ahead for litigation against the Tavistock clinic arguing that under-18s cannot lawfully give informed consent to puberty blockers with unknown long-term effects.
One of those bringing the case Keira Bell, 23, a detransitioner who went on puberty blockers at 16, told the BBC: “I was allowed to run with this idea that I had (that I was a boy), almost like a fantasy”.
“I think it’s up to these institutions, like the Tavistock, to step in and make children reconsider what they are saying, because it is a life-altering path.”
Ms Bell has come off testosterone but complains of feeling “stuck between the two sexes”. She had a double mastectomy.
In the US, youth gender clinics have rapidly spread but centralised data is lacking, the trend in referrals is not clear, and mainstream media reporting is scant.
In Australia, the little data from gender clinics available under Freedom of Information laws does not yet show referrals peaking.
At the Queensland Children’s Hospital gender clinic, the number of new cases jumped from 404 in 2018 to 611 last year, notching up an 1,172 per cent increase since 2014.
In July, Dr Telfer said figures for the first half of 2019 were up 20 per cent.
“Last year we had 269 new referrals … so it’s likely that we’ll be receiving over 300 new referrals (in 2019),” she said.
In 2012 when Dr Telfer took charge, there were just 18 new cases. RCH ignored a request for full year data for 2019.

The Australian sought comment from the ABC, the Andrews government, Dr Telfer and Dr Pang.
Bernard Lane

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Bernard Lane was named 2012 Higher Education Journalist of the Year. He was chief editorial writer for the newspaper and covered the High Court. He is a psychology graduate and language student.