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  1. CW: Several Problems Press: Several problems — The Courier-Mail, 27 November 2022; CW: transphobia

    8. "TransHub, which provides resources for trans people and health professionals, promotes the informed consent model as best practice for GPs — which is when the doctor takes the patient's lead and accepts their new gender identity."

    I was unable to verify this claim. The summary of the informed consent model (ICM) is close enough that I'm not gonna argue with it here. However, of the strongest assertions I could find by #TransHub about the ICM, which are in its general guidance for clinicians [1]: while they are subjectively very positive, they don't actually appear to amount to an endorsement as a single best practice (i.e., superior to other alternatives), simply a discussion of one option among many.

    The strongest assertion I could find by TransHub that was relevant to the #ICM in any way was in the guidance for clinicians regarding diagnoses [2], which asserted that "the requirement of diagnosis [of gender dysphoria] is no longer considered best practice". This doesn't actually enthrone the ICM instead, however. It simply — and correctly — places the traditionalist "gatekept" model which it discusses as, again, one option among many.

    SECTION NOTES

    [1] transhub.org.au/clinicians/inf

    [2] transhub.org.au/clinicians/dia

  2. CW: Several Problems Press: Several problems — The Courier-Mail, 27 November 2022; CW: transphobia

    8. "TransHub, which provides resources for trans people and health professionals, promotes the informed consent model as best practice for GPs — which is when the doctor takes the patient's lead and accepts their new gender identity."

    I was unable to verify this claim. The summary of the informed consent model (ICM) is close enough that I'm not gonna argue with it here. However, of the strongest assertions I could find by #TransHub about the ICM, which are in its general guidance for clinicians [1]: while they are subjectively very positive, they don't actually appear to amount to an endorsement as a single best practice (i.e., superior to other alternatives), simply a discussion of one option among many.

    The strongest assertion I could find by TransHub that was relevant to the #ICM in any way was in the guidance for clinicians regarding diagnoses [2], which asserted that "the requirement of diagnosis [of gender dysphoria] is no longer considered best practice". This doesn't actually enthrone the ICM instead, however. It simply — and correctly — places the traditionalist "gatekept" model which it discusses as, again, one option among many.

    SECTION NOTES

    [1] transhub.org.au/clinicians/inf

    [2] transhub.org.au/clinicians/dia