Brisbane
December, 2025

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Dear Queensland Premier and cabinet,

 

It was when early puberty hit, and the distress of her changing body became overwhelming that our daughter told us who she really was. In hindsight, it had taken our middle-class, suburban family far too many years to realise that our daughter had always been a girl, though she had been born in the body of a boy.

At first, we were confused and overwhelmed, and we lacked the knowledge and information to support her. But we sought it out, and we learned. With the support of medical professionals, our family realised that for our daughter, medical gender-affirming care was crucial for her to live her best life.

 

When she came out, our family had trust in the future. We were positive that, at least in this day and age, our daughter would find acceptance and a better future than the struggles faced by trans people in the past.

 

But we were wrong. In January 2025, we woke up to the government's decision to remove medical gender-affirming care for trans children in the public system.

 

Suddenly, we were faced with politicians who inserted themselves into our family’s medical decisions and against the overwhelming advice of reputable health specialists.

 

Politicians have access to the same facts we do and with a duty of care to Queensland’s children. Our daughter is part of a small minority of young people who receive disproportionate amounts of attention fuelled by this government harmful health directives.

 

I implore the government to stop cherry-picking unfounded pseudo-facts by anti-trans groups that appeal to right-wing ideology.

 

I ask you to listen to the advice and evidence of your own review, the Vine Review. Your choice in response to this review has been to support your own agenda, not to improve the lives of trans kids.

 

While our family made our way from being ignorant to being informed, this government has singled out vulnerable trans kids and put ideology before the best interest of the child.

 

Your decisions perpetuate, encourages and normalises transphobia in our society which harms our kids and families.

 

Body dysphoria is at its height when puberty sets in, and the remedy is simple; reversible puberty blockers pause the irreversible changes of puberty until the young person is ready to go through either male or female puberty. How cruel to deny young people medical care at the time they need it most. Our children deserve to survive and thrive. In short,

 

When our trans kids are forced to go through the wrong puberty or have their families put in financial hardship by politicians without medical degrees, this is beyond problematic.

 

When children who are not trans (cis) can still receive the same medical care that trans kids are denied, then that is discrimination.

 

When people are forced to pay for private health to receive gender-affirming care, it generates economic inequality.

 

When the government does not stand up for the rights of ALL Queenslanders then human rights are under threat.

 

I have been desperately going from protest to protest, I have written emails, made calls, talked to the media, signed petitions and stood in front of Tim Nicholls’ office all to no avail.

 

I urge the government find their humanity and do what is right for our kids, to move away from ignorance and to say an equivocal ‘no’ to bigotry and discrimination.

 

I invite LNP politicians to talk to us parents not via courtrooms, not through media statements, but face to face, parent to parent, human to human and reinstate gender-affirming care for our kids.

 

Paix Kin
Parent of a trans child

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