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On Wednesday, the mother of a transgender child took the state to court over the ban, claiming the bans had made gender-affirming care prohibitively expensive for many Queensland families.
The court heard the state had considered the impacts of removing its support for puberty blocker treatments with stakeholders over 22-minute-period on January 28.
While the stakeholders were consulted, the Health Minister was publicly announcing the ban.
While the government maintained its decision to pause, then remove, backing to puberty blocker treatments came from allegations of misconduct in Cairns, ministers have been criticised for borrowing anti-transgender terminology when discussing women’s healthcare.
“We cannot be distracted by internal squabbles and we cannot be captured by those who seek to divide us,” he said.
Crisafulli also controversially banned parliamentary discussion on abortion shortly after coming into power in late 2024, after Katter indicated he would introduce bids to wind back access during the state election campaign.
Queensland introduced the ability to change assigned sex on a person’s birth certificate in mid-2024, which could be undertaken by both adults and adolescents.
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