Victorian MP Moira Deeming has exposed the dangerous and unnecessary practice of gender dysphoric girls being referred to private services to have perfectly healthy breasts removed in the name of gender ideology.

Deeming has continually addressed the issue in the Victorian parliament. The Labor government has been evasive but now it has been revealed that the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne, “may refer adolescents to a private specialist clinician to consider the appropriateness and need for surgery,” Mary-Anne Thomas, Minister for Health in the state of Victoria, said.1

Ms Thomas, who declares herself a proud feminist with “a passion for public policy”, was answering the latest in a string of formal questions on notice about the RCH gender clinic from Independent Liberal Party parliamentarian Moira Deeming.

Mrs Deeming told GCN that news of vulnerable girls having their healthy breasts surgically removed would cause “outrage” among mainstream Australians, “especially when they have it explained to them that there is absolutely no evidentiary benefit for this.”

Melbourne psychiatrist and researcher Dr Alison Clayton, who has written on the experimental nature of mastectomy for gender-distressed girls, said it was “a poorly evidenced, invasive and irreversible intervention for a poorly understood condition—that is, gender dysphoria—in adolescent biological females.”

She said mastectomy would “have life-long impact on sexual functioning and precludes the later possibility of breastfeeding.”

No publicly funded hospital is reportedly carrying out the dangerous procedure, but referrals are being made to private services. The Cass Review and other studies reveal that such drastic body mutilating measures are not evidence-based when it comes to alleviating gender incongruence. In fact, an increasing number of detransitioners report the surgery causes greater confusion and creates life-long medical patients.

Mrs Deeming said Victoria’s governing Labor Party could act to stop the harm now, because its leadership could cite England’s cautious Cass review of youth gender care and explain to voters that “the science has been updated.”

“The longer they wait, the worse, the more culpable everyone will know them to be,” she said.

Mrs Deeming queried why Victoria’s government had been so evasive for so long when questioned about trans mastectomies for minors.

“If it’s life-saving care, why aren’t we providing it at our best public children’s hospital?” she asked.

She said the truth of the matter was that, like the vast majority of Australians, most rank-and-file members of the government’s own Labor Party “instinctively recoil from the idea that you’re helping a girl by removing her healthy breasts.”

There’s no doubt there will be an increase in the number of legal cases brought against medical practitioners for causing such irreversible harm to minors who have no ability to consent to such catastrophic and harmful procedures.