Nineteen states on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration’s plan to effectively end gender-related care for minors.

New from me: Health officials said there was ‘no evidence base’ about the likely impacts of the Government’s decision to ban puberty blockers for transgender youth. newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/22/c...

Excellent coverage from Marc showing how not only did Cabinet pick the worst option available, they also turned “increased access to gender services” into “a webpage listing gender services” because they want their evil to cost nothing, too.

This article is a great summary of the documents the Ministry proactively released over the weekend. The health advice was clear. Cabinet ignored it all and opted for the most harmful options. Simeon Brown in not fit to be a health minister. newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/22/c...

The ministry of health advised the health ministers that puberty blockers should remain available for young people at high risk of poor health outcomes if they do not access blockers as part of gender affirming care. They also ignored this and banned it for all trans young people.

Not every country’s going down the same path as the UK – the High Court of New Zealand has ruled that a ban on puberty blockers for young trans people should not be enforced ahead of a legal challenge from a trans health body: https://goodlaw.social/6pig

The health minister and cabinet ignored the recommendation and advice of the Ministry of Health and instead completely banned the option of pubertal suppression for trans kids making NZ one of the few places with zero access to this care.

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

PATHA has significant concerns about the UK’s PATHWAYS clinical trial protocol. These trials are unethical, dangerous, and won’t even give Simeon Brown the evidence he claims he’s looking for. Aotearoa shouldn’t endorse these trials, and it remains unethical to withhold necessary care.

Support this open letter written by trans and takatāpui rangatahi: "To be transgender or takatāpui is a taonga. To deny our young people access to life-saving medication on the basis of an imported culture war is cruel and abhorrent." our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

Yes - we're working on some comms around this because there's also going to be a need for funds to support whānau affected by the ban, but you can donate via patha.nz/donate

These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence or best-practice decision making. We won’t let transgender children in Aotearoa be subjected to harm just to ‘win a war on woke'. We’re taking this to court because we know what’s right. The law is on our side.

BREAKING: PATHA has filed an urgent injunction in the high court seeking to prevent the puberty blocker ban from coming into force, as part of an urgent judicial review we are seeking to overturn the ban entirely.

It feels so good to finally get these important guidelines out there! Please share! patha.nz/resources-an...

In some good news, today PATHA has finally been able to release the 2025 Guidelines for Gender Affirming Care in Aotearoa New Zealand. You can read them here: patha.nz/resources-an...

Jaimie Veale, the founding president of PATHA and Director of the Trans Health Research Lab at Waikato has written an excellent op-ed for the Conversation: "The government has placed a burden of proof on puberty blockers that we do not place on other paediatric care."

Government halts new puberty blocker prescriptions – Expert Reaction

That every comment in this article is supportive of trans kids right to access puberty blockers tells you everything you need to know. In the medical community, this isn’t even a debate. No one thinks a ban is right.

What on earth is a 2 year puberty blocker clinical trial going to tell us that we don’t already know?! In the meantime no one under 18y in the UK has had any trans medical care for years while this is set up. www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/16/w...

Benjamin Doyle has faced some of the most concentrated hate condensed into a short period of time, egged on by pseudonymous hate groups and encouraged further by the deputy PM. It’s a damn shame that our political environment has got so toxic that an MP needs to resign for the safety of their whānau

This is a really important statement from the authors of the systematic reviews used in the Cass report. Note their comment: “It is unconscionable to forbid clinicians from delivering gender-affirming care.” hei.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/systematic-r...

Great interview with Dr George Parker about trans perinatal care and parenting. podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/p...

The 15 minute GP appointment model is outdated and no longer works. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Preventing people from enrolling to vote during advance voting is a draconian measure that could rob tens of thousands of Kiwis of their democratic right to vote, and there is no good reason for it. It’s anti-democratic.

While Jennifer handled this incredibly well it was horrible to watch this. Ryan bridges kept interrupting, derailing and talking over her to hammer home his views in a really unpleasant way. So unprofessional and disgusting.

The government can strike them off and order them deleted, but it can't get rid of them, and it can't force the codes that were involved in creating them to do anything different. Read the guidelines and resources here: web.archive.org/web/20250505...

The public should know that this will not be done by all GPs or in standard 15min appointments. It is likely to be longer appointments at a cost to the patient and by GP/NP with a special interest.

Some of the heartbreak of the year so far.

Stop conflating being transgender with being sick

Just launched: the first-ever Gender Euphoria Scale 🏳️‍⚧️✨ Made with @Swinburne + @MCRI_for_kids, it helps mental health care focus on trans joy – not just dysphoria. Read: abc.net.au/news/105098958 Paper: doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2024.2447768 #transhealth #transjoy #gendereuphoria

"No specialist paediatric palliative care service should be reliant on charitable donations.”

Not surprise to all the parents but one which is hard to fully understand unless you are one. I worked in paediatrics before I had children and look back on how little I didn’t truly get. I tell the medical students to listen to the parents, they know their child better than you could ever imagine.

#BreakingNews “The delay of these guidelines is clear political interference by a government that has continually attacked the mana and hauora of our trans and non-binary whānau for votes” #NZPol #GenderAffirmingCare #ProtectTransYouth #QueerAotearoa #TransVisibility @whaeadeb.bsky.social

"The solution is not funding private companies to make money out of patients phoning them up instead of their doctors - it's getting more doctors on the front-line.”

There has been a 31 per cent reduction in locally acquired HIV infections since 2010 – the downward trend is promising, but vigilance is still required.

Politicians have stopped much needed Guidelines for gender affirming healthcare in New Zealand from being published.

In Aotearoa cabinet is preparing to decide on trans young people’s access to healthcare. This is very concerning ideological political interference in healthcare. gayexpress.co.nz/2025/05/glob...

Excited to dip my toes into Bluesky. Hoping to connect with others in my field, discover academic Bluesky, share research and escape the toxic cesspit of twitter.