Yeah, its mostly an ideology, the goal of which is to erase differences between male and female in order to undo the traditional family unit because mum, dad and 5 kids is seen as an impediment to the 'world government' that the elites are always on about.

No one "chooses" to be something other than the gender they were assigned at birth. Either someone is trans, or they are not. And the symptoms of gender dysphoria are easily treated: simply accept them for who they are and not who their genitals say they are.

What an utter pathetic organisation the Australian Christian lobby group is.

Let me understand this, you have no problem with the schools Chaplin program which sees people with no qualification other then a religious belief giving advise to children.

But you have a problem with a gender councilor who has a PHD on the subject.

Smells like your problems based on your religious views not on reality.

Attacking someone credentials is a path you go down when you're on solid ground. Citing a doctor writing in quadrant who you fail to mention is also a member of Fred Nile political party and has spent time training a terrorist group medic's is not a smart move.

Cranbrook school:

Three days ago...filmed sex attack at party, subject to police investigation.
50 boys under suspicion by police investigating rape case.

Where the moral calibre of headmaster himself, Nicholas Sampson, was tested in an appearance before the commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, under question of his dealings with a homosexual pedophile teacher, at his previous posting at Geelong Grammar.

And in a lighter note, Cranbrook senior students suspended for seriously injuring a possum, while on an outdoor camping trip in a local national park.

And today's news from Cranbrook? Transvestites!

Cranbrook, THE most prestigious school in Sydney. FMD, no hope for Australia's future!

Several prominent psychiatrists in the US, including one who pioneered gender transition at John Hopkins Hospital have come out strongly opposed to sex change in transgender people.
They rightly state that no amount of drugs or surgery can change the DNA of anyone, that you will always be the sex/gender you were born as and that data shows that even in the most accepting of countries, people who have undergone sex change still have an extraordinarily high rate of suicide.
They maintain this is a mental problem, not a physical one and should be treated as such.
Trying to normalise this condition is just another trigger for the escalating level of depression and suicide we see these days.

"The latest edition, DSM-5, maintains that gender dysphoria - also known as gender identity disorder - is, well, a disorder."

Totally wrong. Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is gone and was defined as gender non conforming behaviour (it actually patholgised a lot of kids who were not trans but thought to be 'pre homosexual') who then suffered 'gay/trans conversion therapy' (they are the same thing by the way)..

Gender Dysphoria is the distress at not being your true gender. In other words, if you are trans, and are stopped from being, and expressing, your internal gender identity, then you suffer (and as one who suffered it, trust me it is terrible).

But being transgender in itself it NOT a disorder at all...as stated by the APA, the creators of the DSM.

As for the other nonsense, yes I have breast now therefore I have similar (time adjusted) risk of breast cancer ...so what.

And this howler: "worsening of psychiatric disorder"
No, study after study has shown that transitioning improves mental health considerably ..and the younger it is done the greater the improvement.

The last longitudinal study into kids who transition young show their mental health stats are identical to their cis peers ...an amazing improvement.

And this nonsense: "high rate of remission after the onset of puberty".
Totally untrue. Even Dr Zucker who pushed gay/trans conversion therapy for pre pubescent gender non conforming kids stated that, in
Zucker's own words:

2015 GIC Review. Interview with Dr Zucker. GIC-Review-26Nov2015b.pdf
Page 12: " At age 15 in adolescence the most likely outcome is persistence of the GD. 70%-80% would continue to have GD. The treatment would be social transition and biomedical treatment.