On Friday, 14 March 2025, a landmark seminar titled The Future of Youth Gender Medicine was held at New South Wales Parliament House. The event brought together a distinguished panel of seven speakers, each representing a field critical to discussing youth gender medicine, including clinical and academic psychiatry, psychology, evidence-based medicine, and the legal system.
The seminar focused on offering an alternative to the widely adopted gender-affirming model, instead presenting a model of care grounded in compassion, caution, and evidence-based practice. This alternative approach emphasises a holistic and exploratory framework aimed at helping distressed youth and their families navigate the often difficult and emotionally charged terrain of gender identity.
Recordings of the presentations from this important seminar are now available on the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists’ website here.
Further resources on this topic, including our Let’s Talk Medicine podcast episode Gender Dysphoria in Children, are available here.