Mick Hartley

From Gender Clinic News:

The safety of an unknown number of teenage girls given testosterone by Australian gender clinics is in question following an extraordinary UK court case involving a 15-year-old girl thought to be at risk of sudden death because of a “dangerously high” dose of this cross-sex hormone drug.

England’s High Court heard expert evidence that the teenager, known as J, whose history included autism, self-harm and anorexia, had identified as a boy and was prescribed online a double (“loading”) dose of adult-level testosterone to initiate masculinisation of her body.

A comparable “loading” dose of adult testosterone is suggested as a starting dose for female adolescents in the 2018 “Australian standards of care” treatment guideline issued by the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne and used by clinics following the “gender-affirming” model across Australia. There is no public data on how many girls nationwide have been exposed to this high-dose testosterone treatment.

Setting out the issues in the UK case of J earlier this month, Judge Sir Andrew McFarlane noted the evidence of an Australian paediatric endocrinologist1, Dr Jacky Hewitt, that the testosterone level in J’s blood was “dangerously high” in October 2023 after treatment running from January to August that year.

He said Dr Hewitt had advised the court that, “apart from the potential for adverse long-term consequences of such a level, J was ‘presently at risk of sudden death due to thromboembolic disease’, meaning the potential for the hormone to cause thickening of the blood [polycythaemia].”…

“Dr Hewitt advised ‘with confidence’ that ‘there is no professional society of paediatric endocrinologists internationally who would consider this anything other than a highly abnormal and frankly negligent approach’. She stated that ‘in Australia, the treatment provided by GenderGP would be unlawful’.”…

She had “never before (in her 20 years in the field) seen such a ‘massive dose’ of testosterone administered to a young person,” said Judge McFarlane.

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“When a child enters the clinic of a paediatric gender endocrinologist for their first injection of a puberty blocker, they have zero endocrine disease. That child’s hormone levels are all exactly where they should be. Yet when they leave, the paediatric gender endocrinologist has induced abnormal hormone levels. When that child turns 16, that iatrogenic hormone suppression has continued. The paediatric gender endocrinologist then goes one step further, and deliberately introduces exogenous sex hormones. They deliberately raise a female’s testosterone to levels that can only be described as pathological. They are inducing iatrogenic disease. On purpose. Not as a side effect, but deliberately.”—Paediatrician Dr Dylan Wilson, Substack post, May 2022

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“In 2022, almost 500 females aged 14-18 started Australian government-funded testosterone as if they were being treated for the male malady of ‘androgen deficiency due to an established testicular disorder’.”—Gender Clinic News, November 2023