It’s great that Britain’s high court has ruled that children can’t give informed consent to receive puberty blockers. I only wish that we had made that sort of progress here in Australia. But we haven’t — we’ve gone the other way.
Not only are we still handing out puberty blockers to children, we have also introduced ‘self-identification’ for legal sex status in multiple states.
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Holly Lawford-Smith is an Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne
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