NZ govt bans new prescriptions for puberty blockers

[Feejoah]

The dominoes, they keep falling...

www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/579385/govt-halts-new-puberty-blockers-prescriptions-for-gender-affirming-care

Excellent news. This is the start of significant change in NZ.

I just posted that announcement in the medical treatment archive thread. It is a step forward.

Great stuff.

Although, if they are happy to consider international evidence such as from a forthcoming UK trial, you'd think they'd be happy to base their decision off existing international evidence, such as the Olson-Kennedy trial which was partly funded by the US government and already shows that puberty blockers bring no benefits to children with gender dysphoria:

https://segm.org/SEGM-Digest-Issue2-2025

Given we also know that PBs stop puberty completely (and forever) when used in this way and that it's impossible to go through the puberty of the opposite sex, you'd think that would be enough for them to fully stop PBs for this use.

It's basically saying, we've paused a national programme to sterilise New Zealand children while we wait to see how the UK gets on with its trial to continue doing so. How many more children need to be sterilised and have their brain development impacted irreversibly before someone is brave enough to say that there have already been too many?

Edited for clarity.

Green Party MP Ricardo Menéndez March told RNZ the government was "buying into imported culture wars" and targeting trans people on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance.

I think he missed out “the holy” from that last line 🙄

Good news.

Massive news. The number of countries/jurisdictions left willingly sterilising children is dwindling significantly.

Even better news, irony is not dead

"The death of medical science globally is one of the biggest scandals of this decade pushed on by a small global elite."

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1p147xc/new_zealand_to_stop_prescribing_puberty_blockers/

😂
"buying into imported culture wars", do you think he means us, Terf Island strikes again. 🫡

Well done NZ, keep it up.

Wow, NZ is usually pretty woke, I’m surprised by this but in a good way!

I lived there for a while and a lot of NZ is fairly rural and I woke. Lots of farmers who know how many sexes there are and you can’t change a ram in to a ewe.

unwoke not I woke

Great news.

Reuters report:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/new-zealand-halts-new-puberty-blockers-young-transgender-people-2025-11-19/

That's surprising news, it wasn't long ago all the Mermaid mums were talking about emigrating there.

It's a positive, I suppose, but reading the piece, the mood in NZ still sounds pretty bleak, and likely to remain that way for some time.

Great news as my understanding is that NZ is pretty captured overall

There's a parenting blogger called Emily Writes who is madly frothing on her FB page. She has a link to an article she has written on these completely safe puberty blockers, in consultation with Jennifer Shields, President of PATHA (WPATH). Shields has no medical qualifications, indeed, appears to have very few qualifications at all, but being trans makes you an expert on all things trans of course. All the comments on the post are from the outraged and supportive. Everyone seems to be in agreement that blocking blockers is a terrible idea. Except....she's deleting comments and blocking anyone who is brave enough to come forward with a sensible rebuttal to their comments. I watched this happen in real time. This is somebody who writes books on parenting, has a huge number of followers, has children with chronic medical conditions, advocating for harm to come to other children. Gross.

The indoctrination and detachment from reality on that sub always makes me sad. Even sadder when you realise there are children posting. I hope the UK follows Australia in banning children from social media; that would also help safeguard more children from this cult.

I'm turning 16 next year so I'm hoping I can hop on a plane and fly off lol

I hope LAVA win their case, and the judgement comes out soon, that on top of this might send NZ's loonies into a nuclear meltdown. 😂