WEBINAR: Best Practice in Gender Care: Introducing the Genspect Gender Framework in New Zealand
By Genspect
Friday, November 10, 2023
9.15 am – 5.00 pm NZ Time
World Clock for 10 November
Tickets including media, early bird, and supporter options at
https://bit.ly/GenderCareWebinar
Genspect Australia / New Zealand is proud to announce its inaugural event which has been timed to launch Genspect’s Gender Framework in the region. The Framework will be an important part of creating a non-medicalised pathway toward resolving gender distress and toward understanding it within the larger sociocultural context.
This webinar promotes respectful and open discussions regarding sexuality and gender in the light of current scientific and clinical evidence.
We will discuss questions such as:
- How strong is the evidence base for gender transition in New Zealand?
- Are puberty blockers safe and reversible?
- Do children have the capacity to consent to gender treatments?
- Do we do more harm by giving or withholding treatment?
Join us to hear from leading academics, researchers, and clinicians in youth gender care. For the first time, we will be telling the stories of how gender medicine is playing out in New Zealand today.
You may have seen videos of events in NZ that have inhibited discussion of gender care just as it has in the UK, the USA, Canada, and Australia. We offer a unique opportunity to learn from experts about the reality of gender treatment in the NZ context. Genspect’s Vice-Directors Joe Burgo and Alasdair Gunn will share the Gender Framework developed by Genspect’s sex and gender think tank, the Killarney Group, only a week after its international launch at Genspect’s ‘Gender: The Bigger Picture’ Conference in Denver Colorado. The framework, a non-medicalised approach to supporting children and young people with gender confusion, addresses the needs of gender-confused children in the context of their family and community – including the education system.
Then we will hear how New Zealand’s institutions have implemented ‘affirmative’ gender care approaches that go way beyond even the recommendations of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH). Jan Rivers will share her analysis which shows that New Zealand’s guidelines for gender medicine are not based on evidence and have never been independently assessed.
Emeritus Professor Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku will discuss what is really known about sex and gender in early Māori society, and whether this supports the idea of transgender identities as Indigenous.
Simon Tegg, founder of Fully Informed, an independent think tank, has researched the rates of medicalisation with puberty blockers in NZ and found both a rapid rise over time and apparently much greater treatment rates compared to England.
An anonymous NZ doctor will be in conversation with Dr Jillian Spencer, a Brisbane-based senior psychiatrist, who has been stood down from her clinical practice for not following her hospital’s affirmative approach to gender medicine – this will be the first time an NZ medical practitioner has spoken openly about these issues.
Emeritus Professor of Education and Gender Studies, Sue Middleton will describe the underpinning of gender theory in education and how it has evolved. Marg Curnow from Resist Gender Education has up-to-date information about what is happening in NZ schools that both parents and non-parents are unlikely to be aware of and may be shocked to find out about.
Alasdair Gunn will lead a discussion about how New Zealand’s institutions drive gender identity and contribute to gender distress, how families and parents are impacted and how they are responding.
This full programme will be rounded out by psychotherapist Linde Rose who will speak to the psychology behind the widespread ideological capture of New Zealand’s institutions.
There will be the opportunity to ask questions of each of these experts. Take advantage of our early bird rates and secure your place at this exciting and unique event.
To register for the conference, visit https://bit.ly/GenderCareWebinar.