Ramifications for Australia as UK investigates 'trans' medical practice and puberty blockers

A NEW ERA: A social media post from the British 'gender variant and transgender youth' charity, Mermaids. Picture: Twitter

IT'S a golden (if regularly ignored) rule of journalism that writing about things you don't understand is a recipe for getting it wrong.

So at this point, I will lay down my hand, and acknowledge I know very little about the world of transexuality and gender incongruence, and even less about the rise of a medical model that has seen puberty-blocking drugs dispensed to young teenage children around the world.