DR. JILLIAN SPENCER is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who was unlawfully suspended from her successful career at the Queensland Children’s Hospital for critically reviewing the unscientific affirmation model of “gender therapy”. Following the change of government, she is optimistic the new LNP Government and Health Minister will now shun woke politics and close the “gender clinic”.

Incoming Health Minister, Tim Nicholls MP, gave a speech to parliament in June, 2023, noting:

“Children are often heavily influenced, as we know, by social media and peer pressure and can be reactionary towards parents and authority figures. Anyone who has  children knows that to be the case; science and research show that to be the case.

 

The experience of numerous clinicians at the Gender Identity Development Service at Tavistock in the United Kingdom was that many of the children accessing that service were vulnerable and distressed and that rushed assessments of their needs led to woefully inadequate care and inappropriate treatment.

 

They found that many of these children were dealing with a multitude of other issues, including anxiety, depression, traumatic backgrounds, a high incidence of autism—and in any research of the material, concerns in relation to the high incidence of children with autism seeking to change their gender comes through—homophobic bullying—equally disgraceful—and sometimes very chaotic living conditions.

 

Further, the clinicians could not agree on what they were treating: were they treating children distressed because they were trans, or were they children who identified as trans because they were distressed?”

The Human Rights Law Alliance (HRLA) is assisting Dr. Spencer to contest the Queensland Government’s requirement to use patients’ preferred pronouns in conversation and official records, and defend her professional right to object to unscientific therapies. Lawyer John Steenhoff wrote:

By forcing doctors to facilitate medical affirmation and constraining their ability to provide safe and ethical medical care for their patients in line with the best available scientific evidence, policies such as those of the Queensland Children’s Hospital infringe the human rights of doctors to act in conformity with their conscience. They also infringe the rights of patients to receive proper treatment and informed consent, which includes information about different treatment options and the pros and cons of each.

Dr. Spencer is taking encouragement that Queensland’s new Health Minister appears to fully understand the danger of real and uneccesary harm to children from the so-called “Affirmation Model”, which is the model that was used in the United Kingdom.

That model is followed in an identical way in the Queensland Children’s Gender Service.

Dr. Spencer said in a video posted on X:

“I call on Mr Nicholls to decommission the Queensland Children’s Gender Service and return services for children with gender distress to mainstream child and adolescent services which can provide psychosocial interventions for gender distress and evidence-based treatment for any comorbid mental health or developmental conditions.

 

The Queensland Government needs to urgently stop the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children in Queensland.”

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