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Up-to-date statistics are uncertain, but the numbers undergoing gender treatment each year have been increasing in all states. In Queensland, the number of patients soared from 190 in 2017 to 922 in 2022. In Victoria, it increased from 472 in 2019 to 1,290 in 2023, with a lengthy waiting list. However, Queensland Health’s recently-announced restriction on this treatment for all new child and adolescent patients… Long-term studies overseas do not record positive outcomes, especially for those who later regret an irreversible choice made when they were children.

The questionable practice of subjecting minors to puberty-blocking drugs is usually met with government indifference and little attention in the local media. However, Queensland Health’s recently-announced restriction on this treatment for all new child and adolescent patients has clearly provoked the Albanese Labor government’s health minister Mark Butler into acti