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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <heading>Answers to Questions</heading>
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      <name>Transgender Treatments</name>
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          <heading>Transgender Treatments</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="bede3bd5af344a9cb44839cc71547f92" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2025-03-18T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Transgender Treatments</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-03-19T00:00:00+10:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="bede3bd5af344a9cb44839cc71547f92">the Hon. F. PANGALLO </by>().10 April 2024).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="8d8f4cad7e8949f4bf4afd6994dabb20" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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            <name>Special Minister of State</name>
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          <question date="2025-03-18T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Transgender Treatments</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="8d8f4cad7e8949f4bf4afd6994dabb20">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>
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          <inserted>Any new evidence, including interstate reviews, are continuously considered by SA Health.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The federal government has announced a comprehensive review of the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines to be conducted by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), with new national guidelines to be developed. </inserted>
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        <text id="202503186d0068e1fb1040dc90000808">
          <inserted>The NHMRC is the national expert body in health and medical research, with responsibility for developing clinical practice guidelines.</inserted>
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          <inserted>WCHN does not provide surgical treatment.</inserted>
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