Bill
Childhood Gender Transition Prohibition Bill 2023
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21.
- Sponsor
- Antic
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-10-18
- second reading — 2023-10-18
- other — 2025-07-21
Divisions
- Committees - Selection of Bills Committee; Report - Childhood Gender Transition Prohibition Bill 2023 — 2023-11-16, Senate: affirmative, ayes 32, noes 23
- Committees - Community Affairs Legislation Committee; Reference - Childhood Gender Transition Prohibition Bill 2023 — 2024-02-28, Senate: negative, ayes 26, noes 33
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-10-18.
The bill would stop health practitioners from giving minors treatments meant to change their sex.
The Minister for Health and Aged Care would have to cancel a practitioner's licence if they break the ban.
A minor who began a course of puberty-blocking drugs within 14 days of the bill starting could continue if they had 12 or more counselling sessions over at least six months beforehand.
- Prohibits health practitioners from providing gender transition treatments to minors.
- Requires the Minister for Health and Aged Care to cancel the licence of a practitioner who contravenes the prohibition.
- Creates exceptions for precocious puberty, genetic disorders, and ongoing treatment begun soon after the bill commences.
Health practitioners and minors under 18 years of age.
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