The Cass Report (Dr Hilary Cass spent four years looking into the gender services in England), which found that transgender medicine was “based on shaky foundations” caused the world’s largest gender clinic, Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service to close its doors for good on 31 March, 2024 and yet in Queensland, Australia Dr Jillian Spence a Queensland doctor was stood down for protecting children against trans ideology.

After twenty years of working for Queensland Health, Dr Spence said, she spoke out because she saw kids, as young as 12, distressed about their gender, thinking they are trans, being fast-tracked to dangerous and irreversible medication. The system is set up to instantly agree with the child, affirm the child’s claimed gender identity, and medicate the child. This medication isn’t like an aspirin. These are puberty-blocking drugs (to stop normal puberty) and then opposite-sex hormones (to change how their bodies develop so that they look like the opposite sex).

Dr Spence said, “The system did not allow us to stop and ask why these children were distressed, or to properly assess their mental health. We couldn’t even investigate whether medical conditions or past trauma were shaping their state of mind.”

Her warnings were silenced

She warned that these drugs carry permanent risks and that children are too young to make such decisions. I was looking at it clinically and knew that if anyone was to proceed with this treatment, it should only be after careful, whole-child assessment and long, honest consultation, because the stakes are huge: infertility, loss of sexual function, and lifelong medical problems. These treatments are irreversible. But the hospital didn’t debate the evidence; it moved to silence dissent. I was given a “lawful direction”: always affirm the child, use their preferred pronouns, and refer them to the gender clinic (where they would be medicated). Where I could, I complied, using names to avoid pronouns, but clinically, I couldn’t in good conscience let it go. Then, after a single 20-minute review with a distressed teenager, a complaint landed.

In April 2023, I was stood down as “a danger to trans and gender-diverse children“. What followed was a barrage: four separate show-cause notices, investigations for speaking out, and, now, as of last month, a letter with a disciplinary plan of termination from my role as a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Queensland Children’s Hospital. Along the way, I’ve been accused of being a danger not just to patients, but to colleagues, for criticising them for providing healthcare according to a model that I believe harms children. I’ve been told to keep quiet. But I want you to know the truth in plain words:

• This is not about professional freedom in the abstract.
• This is a child protection issue.

I spoke up because vulnerable, lonely, mentally unwell kids were being funnelled into life-altering interventions without being properly assessed.

This is civilisation throwing off all restraint, saying no to absolutes, and repudiating God’s authority over human affairs as prophesied at the time Jesus returns to restore righteousness.

October 28th, 2025, psychiatrist Dr Jillian Spencer says her termination from the Queensland Children’s Hospital has been placed on hold after she launched a Supreme Court challenge against Queensland Health, arguing her sacking breached her constitutional and human rights.