This follows the revelation given to 12 -year -old children in Cairns without their parents’ consent.
The Queensland government will immediately suspend hormonal therapy, including puberty blocking drugs, for children under the age of 18.
It is said that Cairn’s gender clinic prescribes a 12 -year -old child with adolescent blockers and gender migration hormones without their parents’ consent.
The pause will be held until at least 2026, but the liberal government on the right of the center will conduct an independent review of stage 1 and two hormone therapy.
The current government took office on October 26, 2024 and won the election against workers.
New commands issued to Queensland’s health employees are limited to individuals with a sense of discomfort under the age of 18 and providing one -stage puberty block hormone treatment and gender transition hormones. 。
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However, patients who have already received gender migration treatment will be exempted from this new direction in accordance with similar policies published in the UK.
The Queensland government has begun clinical reviews and surveys in the “Clinical Governance Problems” in Cairns, and has begun to provide stage 1 and 2 hormone therapy.
Concerns about Cairns’ sexual health services caused more concerns about gender therapy throughout the state and promoted reviews that cover a wider range.
“In accordance with Queen’s Land Health Health Health, I instructed the director to delegate a wide range of reviews on the independent of evidence of evidence of children’s stage 1 and stage 2 hormone therapy in accordance with the command of Queensland Health. Tim Nichols, Minister of Health, Land State Health, said.
“Led Reviewer is independent of the department, and the delegation of reviews will be solved in consultation with them.”
Nichols pointed out that it is necessary to maintain confidence in what public health services, especially Queensland Health provided for children.
“And this brings a risk to unacceptable patients. It has been revealed that the service has recently been delivered to 42 children, of which 17 were started with stage 1 or stage 2 hormone therapy. Adolescent blocker or gender.
Stage 1’s puberty blocker is used to temporarily stop adolescent on the onset, but stage 2 cross sex hormone therapy causes physical changes.
Nicholls said that along with recent events and international evidence, the Queensland Public Health System raised serious concerns about the provision of stage 1 and two -stage hormone therapy to patients under the age of 18.
He stated that France, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden had strictly regulated hormone therapy to children and young people.
“Recently, the British government has changed the law to restrict the prescription and supply of puberty blockers to children.”
Children and youth were actively treated in June 2024 for the Gender Service of Queensland, which was established under the previous labor government in 2017.
Please ask for an “true independent” inquiry
Rachel Won, a female forum CEO in Australia, called for a “true independent” survey on gender medicine nationwide.
She raised concerns that a pre -independent review of Queensland’s child gender service under the labor government was “other than independence.”
“Now is the time of a truly independent survey on young people’s gender medicine.”
In January, the liberal government has paused to expand its child’s gender services in opposition to previous recommendations.
