I write to urge you to reject the expected ‘Change and Suppression’ Bill in WA that would ban counselling children and adults who have unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion. There are thousands of people across the world who have detransitioned following gender ‘reassignment’ and have reverted to their biological gender. We cannot deny their existence or the truth of their stories. The threat of lawsuits like Keira Bell’s UK case regarding the long- term harms of cross-sex hormones on children, has led Stockholm’s Astrid Lindgren children’s hospital and one unnamed Australian gender clinic to require court orders to proceed. Wait-and-see therapy enables 70-98% of boys and 50-88% of girls who are gender-confused to eventually accept their biological sex, according to the DSM Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition. These children and their parents must not be denied the right to evidence-based therapy to deal with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion. Please reject this harmful legislation which denies the right of WA citizens to seek trauma-informed therapy, as supported by five children’s gender clinicians at The Children’s Hospital in Westmead.

I write to urge you to reject the expected ‘Change and Suppression’ Bill in WA that would ban counselling children and adults who have unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion. There are thousands of people across the world who have detransitioned following gender ‘reassignment’ and have reverted to their biological gender. We cannot deny their existence or the truth of their stories. The threat of lawsuits like Keira Bell’s UK case regarding the long- term harms of cross-sex hormones on children, has led Stockholm’s Astrid Lindgren children’s hospital and one unnamed Australian gender clinic to require court orders to proceed. Wait-and-see therapy enables 70-98% of boys and 50-88% of girls who are gender-confused to eventually accept their biological sex, according to the DSM Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition. These children and their parents must not be denied the right to evidence-based therapy to deal with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion. Please reject this harmful legislation which denies the right of WA citizens to seek trauma-informed therapy, as supported by five children’s gender clinicians at The Children’s Hospital in Westmead.

I write to urge you to reject the expected ‘Change and Suppression’ Bill in WA that would ban counselling children and adults who have unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion. There are thousands of people across the world who have detransitioned following gender ‘reassignment’ and have reverted to their biological gender. We cannot deny their existence or the truth of their stories. The threat of lawsuits like Keira Bell’s UK case regarding the long- term harms of cross-sex hormones on children, has led Stockholm’s Astrid Lindgren children’s hospital and one unnamed Australian gender clinic to require court orders to proceed. Wait-and-see therapy enables 70-98% of boys and 50-88% of girls who are gender-confused to eventually accept their biological sex, according to the DSM Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition. These children and their parents must not be denied the right to evidence-based therapy to deal with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion. Please reject this harmful legislation which denies the right of WA citizens to seek trauma-informed therapy, as supported by five children’s gender clinicians at The Children’s Hospital in Westmead.

I write to urge you to reject the expected ‘Change and Suppression’ Bill in WA that would ban counselling children and adults who have unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion. There are thousands of people across the world who have detransitioned following gender ‘reassignment’ and have reverted to their biological gender. We cannot deny their existence or the truth of their stories. The threat of lawsuits like Keira Bell’s UK case regarding the long- term harms of cross-sex hormones on children, has led Stockholm’s Astrid Lindgren children’s hospital and one unnamed Australian gender clinic to require court orders to proceed. Wait-and-see therapy enables 70-98% of boys and 50-88% of girls who are gender-confused to eventually accept their biological sex, according to the DSM Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition. These children and their parents must not be denied the right to evidence-based therapy to deal with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion. Please reject this harmful legislation which denies the right of WA citizens to seek trauma-informed therapy, as supported by five children’s gender clinicians at The Children’s Hospital in Westmead.