Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House the urgent need to protect access to gender-affirming healthcare for children and adolescents. In 2024, an independent evaluation of the Queensland Children's Gender Service confirmed the safety and necessity of gender-affirming care, recommending increased staffing and funding. Despite this, the LNP government launched another inquiry, the Vine Review, which duplicates previous work, and appears to your petitioners to be ideologically driven. The Review coincided with a statewide pause on gender-affirming care for new adolescent patients - overturned by the Supreme Court on 28 October 2025, only to be reinstated by the Health Minister within hours. 

The Vine Review panel includes no trans people and no medical experts in gender-affirming care. Its public consultation featured leading, confusing questions, causing difficulties for people to share their experiences. This caused distress, worsened mental health outcomes, and damaged trust in health services.

The Vine Review is a redundant misuse of taxpayer dollars. Public funds are being spent to re-examine settled evidence while youth are barred from lifesaving care. Restricting access to gender-affirming treatment hurts families and transpeople. Transgender Queenslanders deserve health systems that prioritises evidence and compassion, not fear and ideology.

Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to do all in its power to: 

• lift suspensions on gender-affirming care;
• reject the Vine Review and implement the 2024 recommendations;
• protect and expand access to gender-affirming care; 
• keep healthcare decisions between patients, families and medical professionals.