Australian politicians, courts, the media and medical practitioners have a lot to answer for. They have been captured by gender ideology in a way that puts gender distressed youth in harm’s way.

The laws and practice in Australia has censored or silenced debate and dissent, despite mounting evidence to prove that lying and deceiving young people into believing they can change sex is doing far more harm than good.

Comprehensive studies are non-existent.

Accurate data is not collected or published.

They gaslight parents and advocates with terrible lies like “would you prefer a dead daughter or a live son” in an effort to put children on catastrophic medicalised pathways.

Thankfully, other countries are doing things differently, more responsibly and child-centred instead of activist centred.

A recently released Finnish study should act as a dire warning for activists and their enablers in Australia.

Commentator Kurt Mahlburg summed it up best. PS if you are not following Kurt, I strongly recommend you do.

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A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.

The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.

A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.

Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.

The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.

Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.

"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.

Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.

The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.

The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.

How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?