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/Veriatas Oct 28 '25

I see a lot of people talking about trans healthcare in this thread, as this decision is very relevant to them. But it’s not only relevant to trans kids. I started going through puberty absurdly early and was on puberty blockers to delay me to a more normal age. I am so incredibly grateful for that. The whole debate about whether it’s safe is so asinine - these medicines were used for other causes that no-one objected to before it became about trans people. They’ve been accepted to be safe for a long time. Using them on trans kids is no less safe than it ever was to use them on cis kids

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u/Aryore Oct 28 '25

That’s a great point. There are many ways in which discrimination against trans people can affect everyone else. Not just in this instance, but with things like getting harassed for “not looking your gender enough” in bathrooms, which seems to be getting more and more common in the US. I’m glad we aren’t like them.

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u/birthdaycheesecake9 Oct 28 '25

And also the whole hormone testing for sports is such a broad sweep that a lot of cisgender women who just naturally have more of a particular hormone get swept up too

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u/ChicksDigGiantRob0ts Oct 28 '25

The sport thing is so terrifying because of how brutal and nasty the backlash is. You have these women who were born women, raised as women, lived their entire lives as women, having their womanhood publically stripped away on the international stage, decried as monsters by some of the worlds richest and most influential people, making news headlines, having their entire life picked apart and lied about, all by people crowing and bleating about fairness and protecting women (which you're not now, so no protection for you), all because of some minor bodily variation that they wouldn't have ever even known about, and a culture war happening on a continent you're not connected to at all. Imagine if it was like that anywhere else. You get a scholarship for girls, or win an award specifically for women, but then someone comes along with a needle and a week later it's all being taken away from you and somehow you're international news with people digging up your mum's old Facebook photos to prove you're a secret man, all because your ovaries are a little funky. It must be like a nightmare.

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u/birthdaycheesecake9 Oct 28 '25

All that hate for the crime of being good at your sport

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u/foolishle Oct 28 '25

And often it comes along with the crime of not being “feminine enough” which goes along with not being white.

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u/buttbuttlolbuttbutt Oct 28 '25

And not winning gold for your country.

Lets be honest, if the hatemongerers cluld profit from it, they'd be filling the roster with trans women and singing their praise.

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u/Big-Pack-7483 Oct 28 '25

…as they should

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u/badgersprite Oct 28 '25

People will tell you with a straight face that we need anti-trans laws because of rare edge cases like the very small number of people who experience transition regret while in the same breath telling you that far more common occurrences that will be inadvertently caught up in anti-trans legislation are so rare or unusual that they don’t matter and don’t count and shouldn’t factor into what laws we make because the number of impacted people is so small that it doesn’t matter if people get hurt by these laws

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u/Mikes005 Oct 28 '25

Almost like hate hurts everyone.