<!--The Official Report of Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia are covered by parliamentary privilege. Republication by others is not afforded the same protection and may result in exposure to legal liability if the material is defamatory. You may copy and make use of excerpts of proceedings where (1) you attribute the Parliament as the source, (2) you assume the risk of liability if the manner of your use is defamatory, (3) you do not use the material for the purpose of advertising, satire or ridicule, or to misrepresent members of Parliament, and (4) your use of the extracts is fair, accurate and not misleading. Copyright in the Official Report of Parliamentary Debates is held by the Attorney-General of South Australia.-->
<hansard id="" tocId="" xml:lang="EN-AU" schemaVersion="4.0" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="hansard_1_0.xsd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2007/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-02-05T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
  <venue></venue>
  <reviewStage>published</reviewStage>
  <startPage num="7699" />
  <endPage num="7780" />
  <dateModified time="2025-02-18T17:37:43+10:30" />
  <proceeding continued="true" uid="4adfd17c6e8043b6874ad2441783694b">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject uid="1299422cc8814a998c9c68f7b2b6128f">
      <name>Gender Dysphoria</name>
      <text id="202502054389224b2e204402b0001309">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Gender Dysphoria</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f" uid="7a1230105c29499182f9f2661eb8dd31" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2025-02-05T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Gender Dysphoria</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2025-02-06T00:00:00+10:30" />
        <text id="202502054389224b2e204402b0001310">
          <inserted>
            <timeStamp time="2025-02-06T00:00:00+10:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f" uid="7a1230105c29499182f9f2661eb8dd31">the Hon. T.A. FRANKS </by>().19 March 2024).  </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="352eda382bc7432d95cf551cab0a9ade" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Special Minister of State</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2025-02-05T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Gender Dysphoria</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="202502054389224b2e204402b0001311">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="352eda382bc7432d95cf551cab0a9ade">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State):</by>  The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has advised:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text continued="true" id="202502054389224b2e204402b0001312">
          <inserted>The New South Wales government has engaged the Sax Institute, an independent health policy group, to review the national and international scientific literature, research and evidence on gender care. Queensland Health has recently released its external clinical service evaluation of the Queensland Children's Gender Service, which has found this service to be safe and evidence-based. The outcome of these reviews will be considered by SA Health.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202502054389224b2e204402b0001313">
          <inserted>The Gender Diversity Service at the Women's and Children's Hospital is currently providing treatment to 117 young people under the age of 18.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202502054389224b2e204402b0001314">
          <inserted>The Endocrinology Department, Women's and Children's Hospital advises the use of gonadotropin releasing hormone agonists (otherwise colloquially known as puberty blockers) for the management of precocious puberty in children has occurred since the early to mid-1980s at the Women's and Children's Hospital.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
</hansard>