The Australian Labor Party has been accused of “burying the truth” with the announcement of a review into so-called “gender treatment” that won’t give advice until next year.
Sky News host and former Chief of Staff to ex-Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Peta Credlin, accused the ALP of “burying the truth, not looking for it” and of seeking to “get this issue off the election agenda” before this year’s poll in an article for The Daily Telegraph.
Ms Credlin’s comments come after federal Health Minister Mark Butler announced on Friday that there would be a review by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) into so-called gender treatment guidelines.
Mr Butler announced that he asked the NHMRC to “undertake a comprehensive review of the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for Trans and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents in Australia, and to develop new national guidelines”.
Even though “gender treatment” is a health service and the responsibility of the states, as the NHMRC is Australia’s leading health and medical research body it has been given “statutory responsibility for developing and supporting high quality guidelines for clinical practice”.
The guidelines will be developed in accord with the NHMRC’s Standards for Guidelines and the international GRADE approach, and in conjunction with a committee of experts, including those with “lived experience”.
Interim advice by the NHMRC on the use of puberty blockers isn’t due until the middle of 2026.
The announcement by the federal minister comes days after the Queensland government announced it had paused puberty blocker and hormone prescriptions for minors.
As Noticer News reported, the treatments were halted after a review found a Cairns gender clinic was allegedly not following guidelines by giving the products to children as young as 12.
Despite pressure from Canberra to pause their own enquiry, the Queensland government is poised to defy federal Labor and continue on. As was reported in The Australian on Sunday, Queensland LNP Premier David Crisafulli vowed to “push ahead with the evidence review of gender dysphoria treatments across the state”.
These Australian announcements come after US President Donald Trump issued a raft of Executive Orders, including various orders concerning the LGBT.
Among the orders Trump signed was a directive recognising two sexes (male and female) only, and the revocation of a Biden-era order aimed at preventing discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
This also occurs after the closure of the controversial Tavistock gender clinic in the UK, and that country’s banning of puberty blockers last March following the Cass Review.
All these events occur amid a global backlash against LGBT ideology, especially with regards to the prescription of puberty blocks and hormone treatments to minors.
JK Rowling, one of the world’s most famous opponents of LGBT ideology, tweeted of the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone treatment to children: “This scandal will be studied to death in years to come.
“An ideology spawned in academia met greedy, unethical medics, while a tidal wave of activists, politicians, corporations and self-serving celebs glamourised and normalised irreparable harm to minors.”
Header image: Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan poses with a bearded man dressed as a woman at a homosexual event (Facebook).