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Family First has condemned the Liberal National Party Crisafulli Government for continuing to allow irreversible breast removal and genital mutilation surgeries on gender-confused children.

While welcoming the LNP’s extension of its ban on puberty blockers after a review found the chemical castration and brain-function-impairing drugs were of “limited” benefit, National Director Lyle Shelton said the government was not serious about protecting children from harmful LGBTIQA+ ideology.

“The continuation of the ban on puberty blockers until 2031 is positive, but the LNP can’t claim to be protecting children when it is allowing the healthy breasts of teenage girls to be removed because ideologically driven medical practitioners think it will make them a boy,” Mr Shelton said.

Former journalist at The Australian and Gender Clinic News editor Bernard Lane revealed this week that the Queensland Children’s Gender Service (QCGS) recommends that healthy breast removal “may be in the best interest of an older adolescent under 18 years” in unexplained “exceptional circumstances”.

The office of the Health Minister Tim Nicholls told Lane that surgery on gender confused children was outside the scope of the review conducted by psychiatrist Professor Ruth Vine.

Further evidence the LNP was not serious about protecting children was its continued persecution of Dr Jillian Spencer, the brave child and adolescent psychiatrist suspended under the previous Labor administration from the Queensland Children’s Hospital for speaking up against experimental gender treatments on children.

“The LNP have been in power for more than a year, the least they could have done was reinstate Dr Spencer.”

In contrast to the LNP’s kow-towing to LGBTIQA+ political activists, the Trump administration is cracking down on experimental treatments on children using puberty blockers, hormones and surgery.

A December 18 government statement said:

“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a series of proposed regulatory actions to carry out President Trump’s Executive Order directing HHS to end the practice of sex-rejecting procedures on children that expose young people to irreversible harm. These procedures include pharmaceutical or surgical interventions of specified types that attempt to align a child’s physical appearance or body with an asserted identity different from their sex.”

While the LNP and the Northern Territory’s Country Liberal Party governments have taken positive steps in banning puberty blockers being used on children, Queensland clearly has not gone far enough to protect children.

The rest of Australia also lags well behind the US, UK and several European countries in protecting children from LGBTIQA+ gender conversion therapies.

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