An autoethnographic critique of a past report of inpatient psychiatric treatment for gender diverse children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To review reporting on a case series of "inpatient therapy" administered to pre-pubertal children presenting with gender expansive behaviours previously published in the MJA and to compare this reporting to the adulthood recollections and past contemporaneous medical records of a person who had received such treatment.

Design

Retrospective analysis of autoethnography, archived mental health records, and patient details published in a 1987 MJA case series of eight children.

Setting

Stubbs Terrace Hospital, a Western Australian state-funded child and adolescent psychiatric hospital, no longer in operation.

Participant

Jayne McFadyen (J), a transgender woman whose recollections align with the clinical details supplied for Case 5 in the case series, and a

SUBMITTER: McFadyen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12502885 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature