Judicial rulings based on lies and deception were never going to succeed long term.

Man can write laws but if those laws defy reality, they won’t stand for long. Gender identity laws, based on the lie that humans can change sex, are being challenged and rethought all over the western world.

In Australia, former Family Court chief justice Diana Bryant says she doubts she would make the same decision she ruled on in 2013, allowing a child to be placed on puberty blockers. 

She ruled in the case of a 10-year-old boy known as Jamie who wished he was a girl. Now she admits the evidence proves puberty blockers are not fully reversible or without side effects. She claims that Jamie’s treating endocrinologist, “Dr G” seemed “misleading” and “overconfident” in hindsight.

“Things have absolutely moved on since 2013,” Ms Bryant said.

“So, if I were deciding the (2013 Re Jamie) case now and had the evidence that’s now becoming available, I certainly doubt that I would have come to the conclusion that we should move to the general view that (court) approval wasn’t needed for puberty blockers.”

Ms Bryant stressed that she is talking about the principle of court approval, not the specific facts going to Jamie’s best interests at the time, nor any future case that might come to the court “with compelling evidence”.

The former Family Court chief justice also said she sees a contradiction between the norms of medicine and the notion that “gender-affirming care” is child-driven.

“If a child, for example, has cancer and there is to be treatment, you’d certainly hope that they’d be involved (in the decision), but it’s highly unlikely that their parents are going to give them complete autonomy to decide what to do,” she said.

Puberty blockers cause immeasurable harm and rob the child of the human right to fully mature into an adult. As time marches on it is more and more evident that the harmful chemical castration drugs should never have been used as experimental drugs on children. They have never been tested and are only prescribed off label.

The tragedy is that Bryant’s ruling is now established in law and referred to in similar cases. 

It was a horrifying mistake that continues to inflict catastrophic harm on children who cannot possibly consent to a lifetime of health issues resulting in them becoming a pharmaceutical consumer for life.