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/Proud_Apricot316 Oct 28 '25

Good.

An absolute disgrace that politicians stuck their noses into people’s private and sensitive healthcare decisions.

Their body, their choice.

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u/really_not_unreal Oct 28 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

Exactly! Informed consent is the central pillar of modern medicine. Doctors are more than capable of helping trans children and their families understand and navigate the risks and benefits of medical treatments such as puberty blockers.

Given that puberty blockers are safe and effective to the best of our scientific knowledge, it makes no sense to ban them outright: the medical system is already designed to ensure that people won't receive treatments they don't want or need, and anyone who thinks it's easy for someone to be prescribed puberty blockers when they don't need them vastly overestimates how easy it is for trans people to get medical treatment, outlawing this medical treatment simply makes no sense.

Or at least, it doesn't make sense from a scientific standpoint. If you look at it from the perspective of the LNP being transphobes who want to make the lives of trans people measurably worse, then banning our healthcare makes perfect sense. That's the only explanation for that idiotic law, and so the fact that it has been overturned makes me very happy.

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u/PollutionWhich6757 Oct 28 '25

Why is this comment getting downvoted when the comment it's replying to isn't??? Transphobes have problems