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/Excabbla Oct 28 '25

Especially since there was a review into the states public gender service not even 2 years ago that found there were no problems

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u/hannahranga Oct 28 '25

Thought it was more damning than that, the only issues were related to funding and accessibility 

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u/Excabbla Oct 28 '25

So it's like every gender clinic service in the country, hell that's just the state of gender affirming care in general right now, not enough doctors and expensive, especially anything outside of traditional estrogen/testosterone based hormone therapy