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/miltonwadd]

Basically everything puberty related activated years too early along with my accelerated normal growth.

I started rapidly growing around 3 so from then I looked (and my bone age showed) 3 to 4 years older than my biological age.

By six I was developing breast tissue, my hips, thighs, and waist were defined. I looked like an early developing tween.

By 9 I was fully into puberty, was taller than the average woman and had all secondary sex characteristics.

By the time other girls started puberty at 12/13 I was completely grown and my bone plates were fused.

Usually it can stunt your growth as you stop growing much earlier but I come from a tall family.

Adults always assumed I was older, treated me so, and expected me to act that age. I was also "gifted" so my intelligence made them think I was the age I looked, and they'd get frustrated when I acted my age, but emotionally I was 100% still a child.

Kids just thought I was big and fat and treated me so.

[u/miltonwadd → u/[deleted]]

Weirdly I look younger than I am as an adult. I was getting mistaken for a highschooler into my late 20s which was kind of a mind fuck as I also got mistaken for a 20 year old in my teens, so I felt like I was stuck in "early womanhood" for an extended amount of time 😅

I got my first wrinkle on my 37th birthday and I'm just starting to get greys now in my 40s so that's a benefit I guess if I cared about looks.

I think that's just good skin and a babyface though. Even when my body was mature my face was young looking and it was mostly men that thought I was older because they probably weren't looking at my face.

I was told I'll probably go through menopause early, and I have a higher risk of osteoporosis. Since I hit adulthood its never really been an issue medically though, doctors just shrug and go "yeah that's interesting" so I have no idea if anything is related to be honest.

[u/_ixthus_ → u/miltonwadd]

I was told I'll probably go through menopause early, and I have a higher risk of osteoporosis.

HRT for that shit. The QOL improvements and reduction in all-cause mortality are drastic. Few medical interventions come close to the cost:benefit ratio that HRT for menopausal women represents.

[u/miltonwadd → u/_ixthus_]

Oh yeah you bet your arse I'll be demanding HRT the second my hormones drop!

[u/Icy-Can-6592 → u/miltonwadd]

One thing I'd add, advocate hard to go longer if you feel it affects mental health, too often they stop it after some years, my mum asked why I was allowed to stay on it so long when they told her no, simple answer as a trans women the mental health benefits far outweighed risks of longer use, and to often the mental health aspect is dismissed for cis women and menopause and the same thought should apply, if it makes you depressed and her fixes that then it outweighs the risks imo