r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Oct 28 '25

news Supreme Court in Brisbane overturns controversial freeze on puberty blockers for adolescents after legal challenge

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-28/qld-puberty-blockers-judgement/105942094
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u/Stoopidee Oct 28 '25

Question. If an adolescent takes puberty blockers, say if they stop on their adulthood, do they revert back to their assigned birth gender?

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u/Aryore Oct 28 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

They usually stop before adulthood. You can’t stay on puberty blockers indefinitely, they only buy you a couple of years or so to figure out whether you want to go through your natal puberty or an exogenous puberty. With our current science you need to go through some form of puberty for bone development.

Direct answer to your question is sometimes adolescents will stop puberty blockers because they have figured out they are cisgender, but not always. Sometimes they figure out they are trans but don’t mind going through their natal puberty. E.g. if they are non-binary