Bernard Lane is an Australian writer and anti-transgender activist. Lane has written for anti-trans platforms including The Australian, MercatorNet, Quillette, and Substack.
Background
Lane earned a bachelor’s degree from UNSW in 1984.
Anti-transgender activism
Lane worked at The Australian from 1991 to 2022. While there, Lane created a dedicated section to attack transgender people.
In 2022 Lane began self-publishing the anti-transgender Substack Gender Clinic News.
In 2024 anti-trans psychiatrist Mikael Landén leaked a pre-publication paper by Sallie Baxendale to Lane. Baxendale’s academic literature review reflected Landén’s view that puberty blockade should be strictly controlled because of unknown risks, particularly cognitive effects. Baxendale then complained in anti-trans publication UnHerd, including a piece about how the literature review written by Baxendale was rejected by three journals as well as accepted by Acta Paediatrica. Baxendale claimed, “it wasn’t the methods they objected to, it was the actual findings.” Of the rejection reasons that Baxendale shared, all were about the obvious bias of the author and the stigmatizing potential from how the material is tendentiously presented.
References
Lane, Bernard (March 15, 2022). New media outlet examines the evidence for ‘gender medicine.’ MercatorNet https://mercatornet.com/new-media-outlet-examines-the-evidence-for-gender-medicine/78051/ [archive]
Resources
Gender Clinic News (genderclinicnews.com)
Twitter (twitter.com)
Quillette (quillette.com)
- Bernard Lane
- https://quillette.com/author/bernard
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
The Australian (theaustralian.com.au)
- Gender [archive]
- theaustralian.com.au/topics/gender
- Bernard Lane
- theaustralian.com.au/author/bernard-lane