Bernard Lane
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Bernard Lane
@bernardlane.bsky.social
Journalist covering the international debate over paediatric gender medicine | www.genderclinicnews.com
Diana Bryant, chief justice of Australia's Family Court when the transgender idea took off in in the mid-2010s, now has doubts about the landmark ruling that liberalised access to puberty blockers for gender-distressed children.

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November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Trans surgery is carried out “under the radar” with misleading diagnoses in Australia’s hospitals, and surgeons worry they may get into trouble with the country’s taxpayer-funded Medicare system, says a report from the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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The uncertain scalpel
Surgeons doing transgender procedures say they are operating anxiously under the radar
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November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Mugged by reality

A mom had dismissed warnings about the trans cult as right-wing nonsense… until it came for her 14-year-old son

Extract Sacrificial Lambs: A Liberal Reporter Exposes How the Progressive Left Harms Children in the Name of Gender Ideology

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Mugged by reality
An American mother had dismissed warnings about the trans cult as right-wing nonsense ... until it came for her 14-year-old son
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October 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Doctors for disease

Gender clinics create harmful hormonal disorders in children who come to them with healthy endocrine systems, warns Australian paediatrician Dr Dylan Wilson.

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Doctors for disease
Gender clinics create harmful hormonal disorders in children who come to them with healthy endocrine systems
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October 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Misplaced Pride

Celebration of "diversity" in children's hospitals looks like a mask for covert promotion of the contentious gender-affirming treatment model

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Misplaced Pride
Celebration of "diversity" in children's hospitals looks like a mask for covert promotion of the contentious gender-affirming treatment model
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October 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“We are applying syringe and scalpel to both age-old and modern symptoms of growing up and facing the world”—Dr Lisa Duval

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Live not by lies
Children fearful of growing up deserve the truth and time-honoured therapy, not the harmful delusion that sex can be changed
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October 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Capturing Europe

A new report charts the unopposed penetration of the EU by gender ideology

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Capturing Europe
A new report charts the unopposed penetration of the EU by gender ideology
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October 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Autonomy as a ploy

With scant evidence of health benefits for paediatric medical transition, advocates are distorting bioethics to justify treatment on demand

My news report on the Berlin meeting of the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine.

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Autonomy as a ploy
With scant evidence of health benefits for paediatric medical transition, advocates are distorting bioethics to justify treatment on demand
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September 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The diagnosis that persists

Clinical psychologist Dr Ken Zucker talks about the enduring relevance of gender dysphoria as a diagnosis and suggests health insurers may just refuse to finance the mere pursuit of "embodiment goals"

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The diagnosis that persists
Clinical psychologist Dr Ken Zucker talks about the enduring relevance of gender dysphoria as a diagnosis and suggests health insurers may just refuse to finance the mere pursuit of "embodiment goals"
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September 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Australian psychiatrist Jillian Spencer, who went public with concerns about paediatric medical transition, has been sent a termination notice, while a complaint against the country’s most influential gender clinician, Michelle Telfer, has been dismissed.

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Unequal verdicts
Dismissal for a psychiatrist who warned of gender medicine's safety risks, but exoneration for a judicially-rebuked gender clinician
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September 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Australia’s centre-left Labor Party Health Minister Mark Butler has ruled out for now any federal restriction on paediatric gender medicine pending new national guidelines expected in 2028.

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No federal rescue
Australian Health Minister Mark Butler rules out stop-gap restrictions on blockers and hormones for gender-distressed minors
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August 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Crime unseen

Government lawyers in Australia try to retrofit safeguards into a radical model of gender medicine likely to sterilise more children

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Crime unseen
Government lawyers in Australia try to retrofit safeguards into a radical model of gender medicine likely to sterilise more children
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August 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
New bill targets gender doctors

A draft law in Chile proposes criminal charges against health professionals who transition minors and forbids the use of a false diagnosis to hide these procedures

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New bill targets gender doctors
A draft law in Chile proposes criminal charges against health professionals who transition minors and forbids the use of a false diagnosis to hide these procedures
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August 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Psychiatrist Bettina Reiter has urged Austria’s government to impose a minimum age of 25 for trans surgery, the same threshold that applies for sterilisation or gun ownership.

And the Swiss People's Party is proposing a ban on trans surgery for minors.

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Surgical self-harm
Voices against trans mastectomy in Austria, Switzerland; Chilean prosecutor on the case; another Children's Crusade; New Hampshire joins US state bans; Oz whistleblower petition; Italy's expert fail
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August 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Enforcer | The Trump administration is tightening the screws on the US industry that markets paediatric medical transition

I report key developments, including the closure of America's biggest youth gender clinic

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Enforcer
The Trump administration is tightening the screws on the US industry that markets paediatric medical transition
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July 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
French health authorities have abandoned draft treatment advice that would have treated 16- and 17-year-olds as if they were adults and enabled their fast-track gender medicalisation under the banner of “depathologisation”.

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Gender reversal
France thinks twice about demand-driven transition for teenagers
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July 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The populist-Left Lula government in Brazil has reportedly shelved a contentious transgender health program that would have lowered the age thresholds for hormones and surgery such as double mastectomy.

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Trans limbo
Brazil's plan to accelerate the gender medicalisation of minors has come to a halt
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July 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
But who would stop these doctors?
Almost a decade ago, the makings of today's medical scandal were clear and visible

Extract from Fiona McAnena’s new book Terf Island: How the UK Resisted Trans Ideology, published by Spinifex Press

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But who would stop these doctors?
Almost a decade ago, the makings of today's medical scandal were clear and visible
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July 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Witch hunt: Clinicians who point out the flaws and dangers of 'gender-affirming care' are hounded and harried

Clinical psychologist Dr Sandra Pertot documents the persecution
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Witch hunt
Clinicians who point out the flaws and dangers of 'gender-affirming care' are hounded and harried
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July 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Reposted by Bernard Lane
A report into cancellations in publishing has claimed that freedom of expression within the sector has been undermined by attitudes towards those who have gender-critical views 👇
Freedom of expression in publishing 'undermined by attitudes towards those with gender critical views', report claims
A report into cancellations in publishing, commissioned by charity Sex Matters, has claimed that freedom of expression within the sector has been undermined by attitudes towards those who have gender-critical views.
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July 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Well, this is an interesting moment. Three major US media outlets—left-leaning and champions of “gender-affirming care,” by and large—have published solid articles unpicking the dogmas and delusions of extreme trans rights and puberty blockers.

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Trans wrongs
American liberals are getting the message, belatedly, that serious mistakes have been made in the name of progress
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July 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Top gender doctor faces complaint

A concerned citizen has called for a regulatory investigation of the conduct of Australian paediatrician Michelle Telfer

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Top gender doctor faces complaint
A concerned citizen has called for a regulatory investigation of the conduct of Australian paediatrician Michelle Telfer
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June 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Naming the harm
Identifying the researchers awarded $5 million in taxpayers' money for a gender clinic study could expose them to harm, according to an Australian funding agency.

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Naming the harm
Identifying the researchers awarded $5 million in taxpayers' money for a gender clinic study could expose them to harm, according to an Australian funding agency
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June 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Rational and prudent

America's highest court upholds the right of states to protect children from gender medicalisation

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Rational and prudent
America's highest court upholds the right of states to protect children from gender medicalisation
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June 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
More than 100 Australian health practitioners have signed an open letter calling for an end to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery for gender-distressed minors.

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Be warned
Australia's health establishment has been alerted to the case for abandoning the 'gender-affirming' experiment on children
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June 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM