The Greens have responded to Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls reinstating a ban on gender-affirming care for young trans folk, just hours after the Supreme Court ruled the LNP\u2019s first ban unlawful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Nick McKim, Australian Greens LGBTIQA+ spokesperson:<\/strong> \u201cThis decision is hateful and cruel, and goes against everything we know about gender-affirming care and its ability to save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe LNP\u2019s actions here are truly disgusting, placing young trans folk in the middle of a culture war of their own creation, using them as a public punching bag, and knowingly risking young lives in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGender-affirming care saves lives. It helps trans and gender diverse people thrive, live with dignity, and be themselves. It should never be used as a political football.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe LNP must immediately reinstate gender-affirming care, and stop playing politics with people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPremier Crisafulli\u2019s cabinet unlawfully overrode Queensland Health by directing it to ban gender affirming healthcare for young people, after just 22 minutes of so-called \u201cconsultation\u201d – this is clearly about politics, not evidence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a shameful doubling down on the LNP\u2019s political interference in healthcare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf the LNP has any respect for healthcare professionals and patient autonomy, it\u2019ll drop its political fixations and get on with funding our public healthcare system properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe LNP needs to learn that healthcare is a choice for an individual, their family and their healthcare team, not for politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens have responded to Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls reinstating a ban on gender-affirming care for young trans folk, just hours after the Supreme Court ruled the LNP\u2019s first ban unlawful. Senator Nick McKim, Australian Greens LGBTIQA+ spokesperson:\u00a0 \u201cThis decision is hateful and cruel, and goes against everything we know about gender-affirming care and … Continue reading “Queensland Government\u2019s cruel ban on gender-affirming care”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35730,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35729\/revisions\/35730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Greens MP for Maiwar Michael Berkman:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n