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Bernard Lane exposes regulator "flying blind" on puberty blockers - ban the child gender experiment now

Family First Party

Australia’s medicine safety regulator is “flying blind” on puberty blockers for children.

 

It has no official data on how many minors are being given the drugs.

 

That is the explosive revelation uncovered by The Australian’s Bernard Lane through Freedom of Information documents.

 

Family First National Director and NSW Legislative Council candidate Lyle Shelton said the disclosures demand immediate political action.

 

“Bernard Lane’s reporting shows our own regulator does not know how many children are being prescribed powerful puberty blockers — yet the drugs continue to be used,” Mr Shelton said.

 

The documents reveal Australia’s first safety assessment of puberty blockers was prompted by the United Kingdom’s 2024 decision to impose an indefinite ban on their routine use following the Cass Review.

 

After the UK halted the drugs, federal Health Minister Mark Butler sought urgent advice from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). In its April 22, 2025 report, the TGA admitted there is no national data on how many gender-distressed minors are receiving puberty suppression in Australia.

 

“This is a national scandal,” Mr Shelton said. “What more information about the harms to children to Australian politicians need to act?

 

“The UK examined the evidence and stopped the experiment. Australia is still allowing children to be medicalised without proper data, without long-term safety evidence and without accountability.”

 

Mr Shelton also pointed to Mr Lane’s earlier reporting on applications from plastic surgeons associated with the creation of artificial vaginas from colons and penises from forearm skin, highlighting how grotesque this medical pathway is.

 

“The evidence continues to mount that so-called ‘gender affirming care’ is an ideological medical experiment on vulnerable children,” he said.

 

Mr Shelton said political leaders who publicly support activist events such as the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras must accept responsibility for the cultural pressure sustaining this model.

 

“When Liberal leader Kellie Sloane marches in Mardi Gras, she lends moral authority to the activism that defends puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children.

 

“There is a direct line between cultural endorsement and policy paralysis.”

 

Family First will make banning puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors — and closing child gender clinics — a top legislative priority.

 

“Children deserve counselling and compassionate support, not sterilisation and lifelong medical dependency,” Mr Shelton said.

 

“It is time to end this dangerous experiment and put Australian children first.”

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