New laws that prohibit conversion therapy pose no material risk to evidence-based and clinically appropriate practice.
Christopher James RyanCallaghan SaschaPublished in: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (2021)
While it may be wise for psychiatrists to abandon this area of practice if they hold strong personal beliefs that the failure to identify with one's natal gender is morally wrong, nothing in the new laws should deter psychiatrists from providing people with gender dysphoria with evidence-based and clinically appropriate care.