'Active intervention' into gender affirmation care needs to be 'considered'

Victorian Libertarian Party MP David Limbrick says the Australian government needs to discuss the safety of gender identity services for children. This follows the American College of Paediatricians urging medical bodies to abandon support for gender-affirming care for transgender youths. “The interesting thing about what they said in the US was they were also referring to social transitioning,” Mr Limbrick told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “Which is not medically involved but it’s also, as was pointed out in the Cass review, a serious active intervention that needs to be considered carefully. “And in Victoria, we don’t do that.”