Australia’s national broadcaster has come under fire after producing a cartoon of a 10-year-old boy supposedly socially transitioning and looking forward to receiving puberty-blocking drugs.
The animation shows a gender-confused child who is being seen by Queensland Children’s Hospital and will soon start puberty blockers to ‘pause’ his body from growing into what he “doesn’t want it to be”.
Parents criticised it online with one saying: “My child is 10. I’m doing my best to ensure he knows kids can’t be born in the wrong body”.
Biological reality
In the video, the 10-year-old declares: “I am who I want to be, I can do what I want to do.
“I will be on puberty blockers soon and that’s just going to be like pausing really my body from growing into what I don’t want it to be.”
Reacting to the clip, another parent said: “This looks like it is attempting to bypass parents to speak to pre-pubertal, suggestable kids.”
In an attempt to defend the video, an ABC spokesperson simply said: “All ABC programming must meet ABC Editorial Requirements and this content is no exception”.
Significant uncertainties
Last month, NHS England announced its intention not to ‘routinely commission’ puberty-blocking drugs for gender-confused children and young people.
It has launched an investigation into puberty blockers after Dr Hilary Cass highlighted significant “uncertainties” surrounding the use of the experimental drugs with youngsters suffering from gender dysphoria.
The announcement comes following consideration of the Cass Review on clinical practice at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS).
Risks associated with taking the drugs include infertility, reduced bone density and potentially harming brain development.
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