It has been a long three years.

We have watched Dr Jillian Spencer be stood down, suspended, physically manhandled at a psychiatry conference, and finally handed a termination notice – all for doing what a good doctor is supposed to do: raise the alarm about harm to vulnerable children.

Last week, the walls came down.

Australia’s medical regulator AHPRA confirmed it is taking no further action against Dr Spencer. And in a formal statement, Children’s Health Queensland admitted the disputes between them are settled. 

More than that, they admitted they were wrong. 

The hospital acknowledged that Dr Spencer’s concerns were “grounded in her training and background as an experienced child and adolescent psychiatrist”. 

They acknowledged that these are “matters of legitimate professional and public debate”. They acknowledged that clinicians must raise concerns about patient safety.

Read that again. The very institution that silenced, suspended, and sacked her has now put in writing what Dr Spencer – and those of us standing with her – have said from the very beginning.

At Binary, we have had the privilege of knowing Jillian for years. She is not a political agitator. She is a senior psychiatrist with twenty years of experience, a deeply compassionate clinician, and a woman of extraordinary courage. 

When she first raised concerns in 2023 about the lack of evidence supporting medical interventions for gender-distressed youth, it was, as she put it, “a culture of fear and silence”. She spoke anyway.

She paid a devastating price for that.

What was done to Jillian Spencer is a textbook example of the lawfare being waged in the name of gender ideology activism.

The strategy is not to debate. The strategy is to destroy. File complaints. Trigger regulatory investigations. Suspend, then sack. Make the process the punishment. Exhaust the individual until they either capitulate or are ruined.

Jillian did not capitulate.

She fought through three years of legal and regulatory action. She stood up at a Brisbane rally and told a crowd of hundreds that the gender transitioning of children is “a medical scandal”. Just a few days later, her vindication was official.

This win matters beyond Jillian’s own case. It sends a direct message to every other medical professional who has been watching in fear: speaking up is not the end. It is also a sign that the tide is turning. 

When institutions are forced to put in writing that clinical debate is legitimate, the ideological capture loses its grip – one admission at a time.

We are proud to have stood with Jillian, and we will continue to stand with every professional who refuses to be silenced.

The children deserve nothing less.