Let’s keep people alive

Four years ago, Alex was the first young person in Australia to be approved for reversible medication (so-called “hormone blockers”). The Sunday Herald-Sun now reports on a similar case and thinks it’s a new story. Read our response.

Also, the evidence is clearcut on this as per http://sfweekly.com/2007-07-11/news/girl-boy-interrupted 

“So far, none of the 60 or so teens choosing to delay puberty at the Dutch clinic have turned back. None have reportedly had regrets. Yet no matter how happy the patients seem, put “delay” and “puberty” in the same sentence, … well, people start talking.”

And some people talk a lot of rot too. Saying that their children will be able to go to the Family Court to get tax-payer funded playstations because of this leaves us at TGV shaking our heads.

But we give a big nod and a fervent thank you to those who wrote to newspapers and contacted media getting the truth across. Some trans folk effectively outed themselves to do that. Others, trans or not ,also communicated the facts.

And to all those people who did that, you have , most likely, somewhere in this world, helped save a young trans life. Say no more.