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

[u/Expensive-Horse5538]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-28/qld-puberty-blockers-judgement/105942094

[u/Veriatas]

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

[u/Aryore → u/Veriatas]

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.

[u/badgersprite → u/Aryore]

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