A US pediatric professor, who says the transgender movement is based on ideology rather than science, will speak at the University of Western Australia despite pressure to ban him.
A student petition with more than 6000 signatures is protesting the appearance on Friday of pediatric endocrinologist Quentin Van Meter, who is on a national tour sponsored by The Australian Family Association.
Dr Van Meter has said that using puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria was akin to child abuse.
"Transgender is actually a delusional disorder," he said.
"It's a state of mind with no biologic basis for it that can be found."
Dr Van Meter is president of the American College of Paediatricians, which is known for its opposition to marriage equality, gender reassignment and abortion.
A UWA spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday that while the university did not endorse the opinions of its speakers, cancelling the event would "create an undesirable precedent for the exclusion of objectionable views" from the university.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/wa-uni-refuses-ban-us-endocrinologist-043709995--spt.htmlIt should be noted that the ACPeds has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for "pushing anti-LGBT junk science".
