genderclinicnews.com
2026-09-10
Australia now has a confused generation of teenagers raised in the shadow of gender identity divorced from biological reality, according to Professor Emerita of Psychology Dianna Kenny.
She was addressing a women's rights rally in Sydney's Martin Place held on Sunday to protest amendments to the federal Sex Discrimination Act in 2013. The definitions of "man" and "woman" were removed from the law. As a new protected attribute, the concept of gender identity uncoupled from biological sex was introduced.
Single-sex spaces for women and girls have been thrown open to transgender-identifying males, while adolescent girls are prominent in the exponential growth since the 2010s of new referrals to gender clinics offering life-altering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
"The generation raised after 2013 is different from preceding generations," said Professor Kenny, who uses psychotherapy and psychological interventions with young clients distressed or confused about gender and sex.
"A child born in 2010 was three when the [sex discrimination] legislation changed, and is 16 today. These are the children who are streaming through my door, confused about who they are. They're not sure whether they're a demiboy, a demigirl, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, omnisexual, transgender, demigender, and so forth.