Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House Dr Jillian Spencer is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who was suspended from her job at the Queensland Children’s Hospital in April 2023, after raising concerns about the hospital’s use of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones to treat children with gender distress. These interventions have no evidence of benefit and have long-term harms like infertility, lack of sexual function, physical health problems and the risk of detransition and regret. Dr Spencer should not have been stood down for speaking up about children being medically harmed.

Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to do all in its power to ensure the reinstatement of Dr Jillian Spencer to her position of Senior Staff Specialist at the Queensland Children’s Hospital.