FOI 5340 – Gender Medical Treatments – Correspondence By Minister Butler

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This correspondence from Minister Butler to Tasmania's Attorney General addresses public gender-affirming health care services for children in Australia. The Minister acknowledges that clinical treatment of gender dysphoria in children is complex with evolving evidence and developing treatment protocols. Treatment decisions are made collaboratively between clinicians, children, and families, with individual practitioners (paediatricians, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists) providing care in the private sector. The Minister notes that disputes regarding diagnosis, treatment, or informed consent capacity are resolved through Family Court applications consistent with the child's best interests. In response to a call for a national review, Butler references the 2020 Royal Australasian College of Physicians advice on gender dysphoria treatment, which concluded that a national inquiry would not increase available scientific evidence and could further harm vulnerable patients and families.