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Written by Bin Chicken 🗑𓅠 on 2025-01-31 at 07:31

Puberty blockers and treatments for trans youth under review

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/use-of-puberty-blockers-and-trans-treatment-for-children-under-review-20250131-p5l8oi.html

Federal Health Minister, Mark Butler, has stepped into the fray after the RWNJ state Health Minister for Queensland made an absolutely boneheaded decision earlier this week. The state government of Queensland is putting thousands of children's lives at risk by pausing the prescription of gender transition drugs, including puberty blockers, for young people at a time in their life when this medical care is essential and potentially life-saving.

I think it's fair to say that Queensland is attempting a "Thin end of the wedge" series of changes — changes that could be made progressively worse in scope and become permanent — which would have disastrous consequences for the wellbeing of trans people in Queensland.

The article notes that the Cass Review in the UK was not based on well-established science or healthcare, and was widely criticised by health experts and, as you'd expect, people with lived experience of being Trans. We should not let those mistakes in the UK be repeated here in Australia.

I'm hoping that the federal health minister does not cave to RWNJs in Queensland or noisy transphobes in the right-wing media. This is an opportunity for the federal government to shore-up support for trans people, and establish federal laws that supersede regressive decisions in some states.

We should not stand for Peter Dutton to use transphobia as a weapon, a political football, or a disingenuous "just asking questions" topic for debate in the upcoming federal election.

[#]AusPol #QldPol #Healthcare #TransRightsAreHumanRights #CassReview

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