Bernard Lane

Bernard Lane is an Australian journalist who reports regularly on the international debate about youth gender clinics. He writes the independent newsletter, Gender Clinic News.

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Banning the Blockers

Gender clinics from Stockholm to San Francisco have been running an uncontrolled experiment on children, while cloaked in the mantle of human rights.

Bernard Lane

25 Mar 2024 · 9 min read

How Australia’s Press Council Has Been Used to Stifle the Gender Debate

In their reporting on the medicalisation of dysphoric children, Australian journalists are now expected to comply with media guidelines drafted at the behest of trans activists.

Bernard Lane

29 Sep 2023 · 17 min read

Four Corners' Failure

In its treatment of gender clinics, the flagship investigative program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation failed to present crucial evidence.

Bernard Lane

21 Jul 2023 · 11 min read

Hormones First. Research Later

A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children‘

Bernard Lane

14 Mar 2023 · 14 min read

At Last, Mainstream Journalists Are Starting to Report the Truth About Youth Gender Clinics

The New York Times and Guardian are the latest progressive institutions to scrutinize the safety of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ medical interventions.

Bernard Lane

6 Dec 2022 · 9 min read

Spinning the Tavistock Story

Activists are twisting the closure of Tavistock as a win for gender ideology.

Bernard Lane

23 Sep 2022 · 13 min read

Shuttering the Tavistock

The closure of Britain’s scandal-plagued youth gender clinic could help protect distressed children from unnecessary medicalisation.

Bernard Lane

5 Aug 2022 · 10 min read

The White House’s Specious Gender Manifesto

The White House is claiming that the debate about childhood gender medicine is settled—even as numerous international experts are coming forward to say it‘s not.

Bernard Lane

13 May 2022 · 18 min read

Gender Ideologues’ Alarming Campaign to Get Kids While They’re Young

In the debate about the wisdom of medicalised gender change for the young, there is a common refrain meant to expose the moral panic and ignorance of sceptics. No young person, we are told, gets any medical intervention before puberty. This may be true, but it obscures the more telling

Bernard Lane

29 Mar 2022 · 10 min read

Podcast #148: Bernard Lane on the Fight for a More Balanced Approach Toward Children Seeking Medicalized Gender Change

Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to The Australian writer Bernard Lane about the severe risks associated with rushing gender dysphoric children into puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery—and the rising tide of concerned parents who are pushing back against the campaign to reflexively “affirm” children’s beliefs about their

Quillette / Bernard Lane

10 May 2021 · 1 min read