Thursday, 20 November 2025

 David LIMBRICK (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (09:54): Today I would like to congratulate our cousins across the ditch in New Zealand for taking the brave step to outlaw the use of puberty blockers for children for the purposes of treating gender dysphoria in minors. They join a long list of jurisdictions throughout the world, such as the United Kingdom, many areas in the United States and many other jurisdictions throughout Europe, and indeed Queensland, in concluding that the evidence here, the science, is not good enough to be giving this sort of medicine to children – to be experimenting on children. In the future there will be royal commissions, there will be apologies and there will be compensation – there will be all sorts of things. I urge the government in Victoria and the Minister for Health to act quickly to outlaw this in Victoria as well. We need to make sure that the record shows, when these apologies are happening in the future and when there are all these royal commissions and when all the harm to children is outlined, that there were some in Parliament that stood against it.