AusPATH - the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health - is holding its 2025 conference in Hobart in November.
I probably won't attend myself, mostly because I think there will be too many people, but I also think it would be interesting.
I learned about it in a gender support group run by Working It Out, a Tasmanian service for LGBTQI+ people.
https://auspathconference.com.au
#trans #transgender #AusPATH #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #australia
#Trans kids are now in danger in Australia . They want to force Cass style approach to trans kids, which will end up hurting them.
If she actually wanted to base it on scientific studies and facts, she would have already done it based on the 250+ study that #AUSPATH is already based on l.
First, they start with kids, and then they will move to adults.
27. "[Barber] said he follows Australian guidelines promoted by AusPath — a group of health professionals working with trans people — that says gender affirming care is evidence-based and saves lives."
What an absolutely delightful paragraph. For relatively few words, there is so much going on.
#AusPATH are the AUStralian Professional Association for Transgender Health, the Australian affiliate of #WPATH, and the peak body for trans health in Australia. AusPATH are "a group of health professionals working with trans people" in much the same way that the #AustralianArmy are "a group of people in green clothes who like guns".
Being the peak body, AusPATH don't "promote" guidelines; they set them. Nor is their setting of guidelines simply a matter of ineffectually wringing their hands and saying, "well, doctors *should* do this, we'd *like* it if they did, pretty please". As noted above, civil action for medical malpractice rests largely on whether the defendant provided the standard of care which would be reasonably expected from a medical practitioner of that kind acting under those circumstances [1]. Those standards of care are precisely what AusPATH (and WPATH) define.
AusPATH can literally "promote" guidelines in the common meaning alternative to the one used here, i.e., raising them up. They can endorse a protocol used by an individual clinic or in a small area, and distribute it under their own aegis. That just effectively makes it another standard they set, though, not some other thing they're shilling for.
Finally, the fact that gender-affirming care is evidence-based and saves lives isn't a matter of what either Barber or AusPATH "say"; it's simply true [2] [3] [4].
SECTION NOTES
[1] https://www.armstronglegal.com.au/commercial-law/qld/tort-law/medical-negligence/
[2] https://www.wired.com/story/gender-affirming-care-improves-mental-health-and-may-save-lives/
[3] https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/gender-affirming-care-saves-lives
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