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    Tag: Puberty blockers

    Court denies mother custody of 11-year-old to prevent doctors prescribing puberty blockers

    April 16, 2025

    A judge has denied a mother custody of her 11-year-old because she would likely permit “potentially life-altering and damaging” treatment with puberty blockers. Justice Andrew…

    Qld Govt reveals details of puberty blocker review

    March 31, 2025

    A ban on public clinics initiating puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to under-18s will last for at least eight months after the Queensland Government revealed…

    NHMRC to develop new treatment guidelines for transgender youth

    January 31, 2025

    The NHMRC is to develop new national guidelines for transgender youth amid the ongoing debate about the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Announced…

    A research black hole? Australia’s gender clinics and their patient outcomes

    March 27, 2024

    Last year, there was yet another eruption in the culture wars. It was the angry fallout of a research paper looking at so-called ‘desistence’ rates…

    Bone density loss from puberty blockers ‘reversible’ in transgender patients

    December 6, 2023

    Bone density loss in teenagers with gender dysphoria prescribed puberty blockers is mostly reversible with long-term gender-affirming hormone treatment in adulthood, Dutch doctors report in a…

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    Why the Tavistock gender identity clinic is being shut down

    August 17, 2022

    Clinical judgements and the clinical counselling at the Tavistock Centre, which since 1989 has provided the UK’s only gender identity clinic for children and young…

    Keira Bell.

    Gender dysphoria: Puberty blockers court ruling thrown out

    September 21, 2021

    The case of Keira Bell made global headlines.

    Gender dysphoria: Doctors lament ‘conveyor belt’ treatment for kids

    May 6, 2021

    A group of Sydney clinicians is concerned that families are pinning hopes on pills rather than broader psychosocial therapies.

    Keira Bell

    Puberty blockers: Under-16s ‘highly unlikely’ to be Gillick competent

    December 2, 2020

    A High Court ruling in the UK raises ethical questions about their use for the treatment of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

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    Puberty-blocking linked with fewer suicides in transgender people

    January 28, 2020

    But only a small fraction of interested children receive the therapy, say researchers.

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