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Time and again, transgender activists, especially the mini-Mengeles in the ‘gender affirming care’ (so-called) medical-activist complex, assure us that puberty blockers are totally safe for children. If so, then why are they so determined to keep the data secret?
In one notorious case, a prominent doctor and ‘trans rights’ activist, Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy, deliberately withheld results of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study into the effect of puberty blockers on children. She admitted that the results proved there was no benefit and that she was afraid the study would be ‘weaponised’. Worse, she was terrified the results would be used in court cases against doctors like her.
Here in Australia, government bodies are deliberately withholding data.
Six of Australia’s eight states and territories have refused to release any data on the number of children prescribed puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria, maintaining a veil of secrecy that prevents proper oversight of the highly controversial treatment.
Experts warn the lack of information wouldn’t be countenanced for “any other medical condition”, and is allowing claims of good outcomes to go “completely unchecked”, with little monitoring of the long-term impacts of medicalised gender therapy.
Which we could be forgiven for suspecting is exactly the point. Like ‘Squealer’ in Animal Farm, they endlessly emphasise how wonderful the outcomes of their ideology is, without allowing anyone to say otherwise, let alone check for themselves.
And when you’re being shown up by the Starmer government, you really know you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The refusal of most Australian jurisdictions to release any data stands in contrast with the position of UK Labour Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who in recent weeks put before parliament an order requiring previously unco-operative adult gender clinics to link data for patients who received puberty blockers as children, to assist researchers in assessing the long-term safety and efficacy of the drugs.
This veil of secrecy has likely dire consequences.
As The Australian revealed last month, documents obtained under Freedom of Information reveal the Therapeutic Goods Administration – Australia’s medical safety regulator – is unable to assess the risk-benefit profile of puberty blockers as it does for other medicines.
This is both because public gender clinics and the health departments and governments that fund them have chosen not to collate official data about their use, and because the drugs are used “off label” in the treatment of gender dysphoria, meaning they have not been tested for efficacy or safety when used for this purpose.
Remember, these are the same people who fell over themselves to ban off-label prescription of extremely safe drugs like ivermectin, which is not to get into the debate of whether the off-label prescription was effective (the evidence suggests not), but it was almost completely safe. Puberty blockers are very much not.
Because their use for gender dysphoria often involves years of treatment in patients who never go through puberty, at least 90 per cent of whom go on to cross-sex hormones, the health risks to this group – which include almost certain infertility, reduced bone density and cognitive impacts – are much greater than those to patients being treated for other conditions.
Yet, the drugs are being fed to thousands of Australian children with reckless abandon.
Puberty blockers continue to be prescribed for gender dysphoria through the public health system in every Australian jurisdiction except Queensland and the Northern Territory, where they remain available privately.
This compares with bans or heavy restrictions in the UK, New Zealand, Scandinavian countries and more than half the states of the US.
In Australia, we can’t even be sure how many children are being subjected to this dangerous treatment.
The Australian’s analysis of the incomplete data shows that between 2014 and 2025, at least 2387 Australian children were prescribed puberty blockers for gender dysphoria.
Given the gaps in these numbers and the fact that they do not account for the puberty blockers administered by GPs or private clinics, the real number is thought to be hundreds more.
This means that Australian children are likely being chemically crippled and castrated at an extraordinary rate of knots. Nearly four times the rate of the UK.
Also of note in the data is the very high number for Queensland, where at least 1000 children were prescribed puberty blockers for gender dysphoria between 2014 and 2025, compared with 376 in Victoria and 546 in NSW over the same period, noting that numbers are missing for the latter state for the most recent two years.
Curiously in NSW, the Newcastle-based Maple Leaf House, which opened in 2021 to cater for rural and regional patients, provided puberty blockers to 95 and 91 children in 2022 and 2023 respectively, compared with 56 and 61 in the same years for all other clinics in the state, and 49 statewide in 2021.
And that strongly suggests the presence of a singularly dedicated activist ‘doctor’.
University of Sydney Emeritus Professor of Psychology Dianna Kenny, who treats gender dysphoric young people, said the data available on gender medicine “would not pass muster in any other discipline of medicine”.
“It is a disgrace and scandal that no proper data is collected, analysed and used to inform further practice,” said Dr Kenny, who is the author of the recently published book, inTRANSigence: Gender Ideology, Social Contagion and the Scandal of Youth Gender Medicine.
“There is no other medical condition known that does not keep very detailed epidemiological data on the characteristics of illnesses and the outcomes of certain treatments.
“We’ve got these Messianic saviours purporting to save a generation of young people born in the wrong body, and they’re not interested in how they fare long term.”
Not only do these medical mutilators need to be stopped, immediately, they also need to be investigated for malpractice… at the least. Being struck off the medical register would be the lightest sentence they deserve: massive litigation and even criminal prosecution seems entirely in order.
