Doctor is out Norway | A prominent Norwegian gender clinician, Esben “Esther Pirelli” Benestad, who identifies as a woman, has lost the right to practise, the magazine Reduxx has reported, noting that, “Benestad had previously been scrutinised for giving puberty-halting drugs to adolescents under questionable circumstances, and for falsifying medical diagnoses in order to recommend underage girls for double mastectomies.” In March 2023, Norway’s independent Healthcare Investigation Board concluded that medicalised gender change for minors was “experimental”. The medical directors of Norway’s four health regions agreed with this verdict in February this year.