Tag: puberty-blockers
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Tasmania Must Act Now on Puberty Blockers: A Call to Health Minister Bridget Archer and Attorney-General Guy Barnett
As the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) reveals Australia’s blind spots on puberty blockers for gender-distressed minors, Women Speak Tasmania is renewing our urgent call for action. Our February 26 media release demands that Tasmania’s Health Minister Bridget Archer and Attorney-General Guy Barnett immediately review the clinical, regulatory, and legal frameworks governing these off-label treatments. With…
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Tasmania Health Minister and Attorney-General Must Act on the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Drug Alert
Women Speak Tasmania is calling on Tasmania’s Health Minister and Attorney-General to urgently review the clinical, regulatory, and legal framework surrounding the prescription of puberty-blocking drugs to minors, following the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s recent report into their off-label use in Australia. A report in The Australian on 23 February 2026 detailing the Therapeutic Goods Administration…
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How the House of Cards Is Coming Down: The Queensland Gender Clinic Scandal
For years, Australians were told that medical gender transition for children was “settled science.” Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones were described as safe, reversible, and necessary to prevent harm. Parents who hesitated were often reassured — or pressured — that delaying treatment placed their child at risk. Then Queensland happened. What began as a local…
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Flying blind on puberty blockers
Australia’s medicine safety officials have warned the federal government they are flying blind on the use of puberty blocker drugs for gender-distressed minors. The country’s first safety assessment of this drug use — revealed in documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws — followed news of the 2024 UK decision to impose an indefinite ban…
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Invitation: Health Forum at Parliament House
Youth Gender Distress: Pathways to Holistic Care Thursday 27 November, 1–5 pm – Parliament Reception Room Australia’s leading clinicians in child and adolescent psychiatry, psychology, and mental health will address a full audience this Thursday at Parliament House. The forum will examine: Last week, a group of senior clinicians wrote to federal Health Minister Mark…
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Former Family Court chief justice Diana Bryant admits doubts over landmark puberty blockers ruling
The former chief justice who led Australia’s Family Court when it green-lit liberalised access of puberty blockers to gender-distressed children in the 2010s reveals she now has doubts about the ruling. The judge who led Australia’s Family Court when it green-lit liberalised access of puberty blockers to gender-distressed children in 2013 has revealed she now…
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The Collapse of the Dutch Protocol: Why Puberty Blockers for Children Are Unnecessary
The so-called Dutch Protocol, first developed in the Netherlands in the 1990s, has been the foundation for prescribing puberty blockers to children diagnosed with gender dysphoria. For years, it was promoted internationally as a model of “best practice.” But the global picture today tells a very different story: one of growing restrictions, suspensions, and outright…
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Landmark Australian Court Decisions Challenge Gender-Affirming Care for Children
A significant Family Court ruling during 2025 has placed Australia’s medical approach to childhood gender distress under new scrutiny. The case of Re Devin has raised serious questions about expert evidence, the role of advocacy in clinical practice, and whether vulnerable children are being placed on irreversible medical pathways too quickly. For Women Speak Tasmania,…
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Analysis from the article: “Critiques of the Cass Review: Fact-Checking the Peer-Reviewed and Grey Literature”
This document critiques four articles that challenged the Cass Review, a report on pediatric transgender healthcare commissioned by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The analysis covers the document’s purpose, structure, key arguments, evidence, strengths, weaknesses, and implications. Overview The document is a scholarly article that responds to critics of the Cass Review, a comprehensive…
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Australian Clinicians Call for Halt of Gender Affirming Interventions – Open Letter to Australian Health Bodies
Over 100 Australian clinicians have signed the letter calling for the halt of gender affirming interventions. Read below: OPEN LETTER TO AUSTRALIAN HEALTH BODIES REGARDING GENDER-AFFIRMING INTERVENTIONS As clinicians, we call on our professional bodies and regulatory authorities to urgently acknowledge and respond to recent international and local developments in the field of youth gender…