Australia’s Gender Clinics Are Far Worse Than You Think | Helen Joyce
November 17, 2025
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as posted by the channelHelen Joyce Explains how the UK has shut down gender-affirming medicine for minors after the Cass Review, but Australia continues with even more aggressive practices.
The Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service in the UK was closed after a series of formal reviews found that it had departed from established medical standards and was placing vulnerable children at risk through an overly-affirming, insufficiently evidence-based treatment model. The landmark Cass Review concluded that Tavistock had been prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones without robust clinical justification, had failed to provide adequate psychological assessment, had poor record-keeping, and operated without the safeguards normally required for paediatric medicine. The case of Keira Bell—who was placed on blockers at 16 and underwent a double mastectomy at 20 before later regretting her transition—brought the issue to national attention and exposed serious deficiencies in informed consent.
Helen Joyce was Britain Editor at The Economist, where she worked for over 15 years before she joined the gender-critical campaign group Sex Matters as a director. She is the author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality.
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