Health Minister Mark Butler’s defence of chemicals which castrate gender-confused children only puts more pressure on families worried their kids are being indoctrinated at schools by radical LGBTIQA+ gender fluid ideology.
Asked about the New Zealand government becoming the latest to ban the use of puberty blockers on gender confused children, Mr Butler said the prescription of puberty blockers to children is “contested and evolving”.
Family First National Director Lyle Shelton and NSW Upper House candidate said Mr Butler must explain to families what he knows about puberty blockers that the UK, US, Nordic countries and New Zealand governments don’t.
“Ever since Dr Hilary Cass’s review which led to the shutdown of the Tavistock child gender clinic in London, governments have been abandoning experimental gender treatments and surgeries on children.
“Australia remains an outlier and Liberal and Labor politicians must explain why they cling to LGBTIQA+ gender fluid ideology to inform child medicine. This is the biggest medical scandal of our time yet Australian politicians continue to fund child gender clinics throughout the nation injecting children with puberty blockers and referring for so-called and irreversible gender affirmation surgery.
“Mark Butler is being reckless with the lives of vulnerable children,” Mr Shelton said.
While the UK announced at the weekend that there would be a trial of puberty blockers using 220 children under the age of 16, Family First and many medical experts believe such a trial is unethical. Despite the trial, the general use of puberty blockers on children remains banned in the UK.
Mr Butler recently announced a review of puberty blockers in Australia to be conducted by the National Health and Medical Research Council but it doesn’t report until 2028.
The Australian reported that:
“Among the (gender guidelines development committee) members named is Associate Professor Kenneth Pang, a consultant paediatrician and research lead at the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Department of Adolescent Medicine, and leading proponent of gender-affirming care. Asked whether it was a conflict of interest for Associate Professor Pang to be on the committee, given he is one of four authors, with Michelle Telfer, of Australia’s gender affirming care guidelines, Mr Butler said the NHMRC worked under a statutory charter, ‘independent from any minister’.”
Mr Shelton said Professor Pang had a clear conflict of interest and as a proponent of so-called gender affirming care would be unlikely to be able to provide impartial advice.
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