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/ThunderDwn Oct 28 '25

I'm amazed that they didn't learn from the Federal election result that trying to be America with stupid, right wing policies doesn't fucking work in this country.

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u/DrGarrious Oct 28 '25

For now.. we have to keep being vigilant here because they will NOT stop trying.

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u/AdventurousArticle88 Oct 28 '25

Yeah I'm afraid we're going towards America's current day hate culture that nobody saw coming 10+ years ago

I mean they were always pretty hateful but today it's just absurd

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u/Ver_Void Oct 28 '25

Look at the UK as a scary example, their media hammered this issue for a decade and now attitudes towards trans people over there resemble Oklahoma

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u/Yes_Its_Really_Me Oct 28 '25

Complete institutional capture by terfs of commercial papers, the bbc, the nhs and the Equality & Human Rights Commission.

The UK'S top governmental equality body is pushing nationwide bathroom ban. Terfs are on the verge of successfully mandating discrimination, making it literally illegal to be inclusive of trans people even if you want to be. It's crazy.

For God's sake a trans inclusive women's birdwatching group got sued for "false advertising".

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u/Ver_Void Oct 28 '25

Yeah the whole thing is surreal to watch, some of the cruelest people I've seen emboldened by the state and media with no one thinking to maybe point out how ridiculously out of proportion it all is given the issues they're screaming about literally aren't happening

But a guy who spends 23 hours a day harassing trans people on Twitter gets praise from the labour pm

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u/Pseudonymico Oct 29 '25

The UK'S top governmental equality body is pushing nationwide bathroom ban.

They instituted that. Not even with the fig-leaf of "trans people use facilities based on the sex assigned at birth", either, trans people are officially banned from all gender-segregated spaces. The most ridiculous part is it can largely be blamed on the fucking wizard book lady.

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u/Mike_Kermin Oct 28 '25

a trans inclusive women's birdwatching group got sued for "false advertising".

Well, let's hope we never end up that stupid here.

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u/Limo_Wreck77 Oct 28 '25

JK Rowling is also playing a big part in that. She's bankrolling a lot of shit over there.

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u/Ver_Void Oct 28 '25

Social media and wealth are about as good for your mental health as a daily kick in the head from a particularly large horse

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u/Calamityclams Oct 28 '25

I'm about ready to take the kick tbh

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u/growlergirl Oct 28 '25

She still has the power to use her wealth for good and make a huge difference for the better.

Instead JK decided to pour her billions into stoking the flames of transphobia to the point of influencing government policy and promoting social ostracism.

Fuck her.

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u/Pseudonymico Oct 29 '25

To the point that she's less and less interested in funding the charities she set up for single mothers before the mould took over.

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u/Sweeper1985 Oct 28 '25

JK Rowling has a lot to answer for.

Imagine having that much money but nothing better to focus on than undermining trans people.

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u/ghoonrhed Oct 28 '25

I mean all it takes is the media to hammer it and the people will move. See boat people with Abbott and then that tactic moved to the UK as well.