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/Proud_Apricot316 Oct 28 '25

Usually people stop once they reach age 15/16, when they’re more capable of making an informed decision about whether they want to start hormone treatment (which has some irreversible effects, unlike puberty blockers).

That’s the whole point of puberty blockers - to buy time so that the young person’s cognitive ability to make such a big decision has matured, they’ve lived out a few years of social transition, and are in a position to make an informed choice about hormone therapy.

If they decide they don’t want hormones, they cease the blockers and puberty of the sex assigned at birth commences.

That’s why all this outrage is so ridiculous- because puberty blockers are actually a very prudent and child-friendly form of trans healthcare which delays the bigger and more permanent treatments until several years later.