Tag: Tasmania Health Minister
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Request for review of Tasmanian Gender Service clinical pathways following new questions concerning WPATH guidance – Email to Bridget Archer
Email to the Tasmanian Minister for Health, Bridget Archer, dated 16 August 2026 Dear Minister Archer, I am writing on behalf of Women Speak Tasmania to ask you to reconsider the clinical governance and guidelines underpinning the Tasmanian Gender Service (TGS), following new developments concerning the evidentiary basis of guidance issued by the World Professional…
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Tasmania should review gender-care pathways as questions grow over WPATH evidence base
Women Speak Tasmania is calling on the Tasmanian Government to review the clinical pathways used by the Tasmanian Gender Service after new reporting about the evidentiary basis of WPATH guidance. According to The Australian on 15 August, lawyers for WPATH told a US court that statements in its Standards of Care are “opinions about what…
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Is Tasmania Acting Too Late to Protect Children?
Women Speak Tasmania raised serious questions with the Tasmanian Government in May about clinical governance, evidence and safeguards in the provision of puberty suppression and gender-affirming hormones to patients under 18. Three months later, new developments have made those questions more urgent. When governments are responsible for the care of children, waiting for greater certainty…
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Duty of Care and Clinical Governance Considerations – Letter to Bridget Archer
Letter sent to the Tasmanian Minister for Health, Hon. Bridget Archer, on 06 May 2026 Dear Minister Archer, Re: Duty of Care and Clinical Governance Considerations – Tasmanian Gender Service I write regarding the continued provision of puberty suppression (Stage 1) and gender-affirming hormone treatment (Stage 2) to patients under 18 years of age through…
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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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Tasmania Must Act Now to Protect Children and Follow Queensland’s Ban on Puberty Blockers and Cross-Sex Hormones
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) is calling on the Tasmanian Government — specifically Premier Jeremy Rockliff and Minister for Health Bridget Archer — to act urgently to protect children by suspending Stage 1 (puberty blockers) and Stage 2 (cross-sex hormones) for minors, in line with Queensland’s recent decision. Queensland’s independent Hormone Treatment Review has now confirmed…
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Questions on the Tasmanian Gender Service: Our Follow-Up with the Health Minister
On 18 March, Women Speak Tasmania met with Health Minister Jacquie Petrusma to raise serious concerns about the Tasmanian Gender Service (TGS). Following that meeting, we wrote to the Minister to confirm our questions and seek clarity on several key issues surrounding the treatment of children and young people with gender dysphoria. Our Questions We…
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Questions regarding The Tasmania Gender Service – Letter to Jacquie Petrusma
Letter sent to Tasmania Minister for Health Jacquie Petrusma on 31 March 2025 Dear Minister Jacquie Petrusma, Re: Questions regarding The Tasmanian Gender Service I am writing to you as a follow up from our meeting on 18th March confirming our questions to you about the Tasmania Gender Service and some additional question Q1. As…