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After close to two hours of debate, discussion and a dressing down from parliamentary colleagues, newly signed up One Nation MP Ben Dawkins stood alone as the Legislative Council voted on his motion about people who are transgender. The Liberals and Nationals didn’t vote. Leaving the chambers as the bells tolled. Labor, Legalise Cannabis, and […]

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has announced that she will push again for a senate inquiry into transgender healthcare based on the decision from England’s National Health Service to stop prescribing puberty blocker medication outside of research trials. Hanson took to social media to announce the motion she’ll be putting forward to the senate and […]

The Australian Press Council has found The Australian newspaper failed to meet expected standards of journalism with its reporting when it published an opinion piece from Patrick Parkinson, an emeritus professor of law at the University of Queensland and a former chair of the Family Law Council. The article was published on 13 June 2023, headed Gender affirming’ care is destroying vulnerable […]

A new study conducted at the Child and Adolescent Health Service Gender Diversity Service at Perth Children’s Hospital has shown the rate of patients who choose to reidentify with their sex registered at birth is very low. The study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics on 4th March 2024 showed that 5.3% of young people reidentified with […]