University of Queensland Law Professor Patrick Parkinson issued the appeal after Jillian Spencer - a psychiatrist at the Queensland Children's Hospital - was stood down from clinical duties in mid-April, following a patient's complaint, after she questioned the use of puberty blockers without an appropriate mental health assessment.“We have a leading psychiatrist being silenced potentially from raising these issues in her hospital,” he told Sky News Australia.
“What is really a medical issue, a mental health issue, a child protection issue has been caught up in the politics of LGTBQI rights and that is a dangerous mix,” he said.“We haven’t seen yet the wave of regret that I suspect is going to occur because kids are being put on these pathways without proper mental health assessment.”
The medicine model has come under scrutiny in the UK, with a High Court ruling in 2020 that children under the age of 16 “considering reassignment are unlikely to be mature enough to give informed consent”.
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