Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1114 in the terms circulated in the chamber, before asking that it be taken as a formal motion.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

  i. 100 years of diagnostic history of childhood gender dysphoria (GD) there is an alarming trend that teenage girls, with no history of GD, have become the largest group seeking treatment,

  ii. in the United States of America, girls requesting gender reassignment surgery in 2016-17 rose 400%,

  iii. in the United Kingdom, girls presenting with GD in the last 10 years rose 4000%, and

individual. Australia's Royal Children's Hospital indicates referrals have grown from 1 every two years to 104 patients in 2014;

(b) further notes that:

  i. Sweden's leading gender clinic has ended treatment of minors with hormonal drugs due to safety concerns, citing cancer and infertility, and

  ii. suicide mortality rate for transgendered people is 20 times higher than comparable peers;

(c) supports children presenting with GD to be given:

  i. the 'wait and see' method as the first choice, since evidence shows between 70-90% of young people's dysphoria resolves itself by puberty, and

  ii. a comprehensive therapeutic pathway since a large percentage of these children have pre-existing mental health issues, and not a medical pathway; and

(d) condemns the practice of children receiving:

  i. experimental and unproven medical treatments of irreversible puberty blockers and sex hormone treatments, and

  ii. irreversible transgender surgery.