Protection racket for LGBTQ ideology persecutes non-conforming doctors

AN entrenched transgender political mafia, operating under the protection of the Australian Health Practioner Regulation Agency, the Labor Party, Greens, Teals and elements within the Liberals, is ruining the careers of leading Australian medical and psychiatric doctors.

Their alleged crime? Speaking out against the horrific practises of transgender drugging and surgical mutilation of children and other people, euphemistically called “gender-affirming care”.

The latest victim of this political attack gang is Dr Andrew Amos, a leading Queensland psychiatrist and chairman of the Queensland section of Rural Psychiatry, who published peer-reviewed research in Australian Psychiatry questioning whether “gender-affirming care” meets basic psychiatric standards.

Dr Amos’ concerns align with the Cass Review in the UK, which found the evidence base for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in minors was weak and changed policy across Europe.

His actions prompted four scurrilous complaints from trans activists, which prompted the cowards who run AHPRA (also called the Medical Board of Australia) to employ their “immediate action” process to ban him from social media, bar him from clinical contact with any patients, and order him to hand over all his social media profiles.

He is banned from posting online about gender medicine, gender identity, or transgender persons.

The Human Rights Law Alliance, which is handling numerous cases of political and religious persecution within Australia, says AHPRA’s power to take such action requires only a “reasonable belief” that there may be a serious risk to the public. The board does not need to establish all the facts, and an investigation may take up to two years.

“This is prior restraint in its most direct form, applied not by a court but by a regulatory body exercising administrative power.

“Dr Amos has argued in academic publications that gender-affirming care is incompatible with evidence-based psychiatric practice. He has questioned whether the model allows psychiatrists to properly assess whether mental illness may be contributing to a patient’s gender distress.

“These are legitimate clinical concerns, grounded in published research and shared by clinicians internationally,” says an HRLA briefing on the case.

“The complaints triggering AHPRA’s action related to social media posts made by Dr Amos in which he questioned gender-affirming treatment and was alleged to have “misgendered” a UK academic.”

The Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists also buckled to the fear campaign and suspended his membership while James Cook University also cut ties.

Seven weeks later there has been no finding of misconduct, no finding of patient harm. Dr Amos has been gagged for the entire time of the investigation.

Another victim of this political mafia is Dr Jillian Spencer, another Queensland psychiatrist, who has been suspended from Queensland Health since 2024 for merely raising concerns about practices at the Queensland Children’s Hospital gender clinic.

Her “misconduct” also included sharing a newspaper article in March 2026. The article from The Australian was about Dr Amos’s case. This is pure political totalitarianism worthy of the worst communist regimes in recent history.

The Health Ombudsman referred her to AHPRA on the basis that her post “criticised gender affirming care and encouraged followers to petition against it.”

“Within our profession, there has been absolute suppression of any capacity to debate the issue in medical professional forums,” she told The Australian.

“And people say to us, this is a really sensitive and important debate, it shouldn’t happen on social media or in the media. But what they’re ignoring is that we have no capacity to have the discussion within our profession.”

The HRLA says that statement goes to the heart of the problem. “If professional forums refuse to host the debate, conferences exclude dissenting papers, and journals block publication by critical reviewers, clinicians are left with no avenue to raise concerns. When regulators then punish them for raising those concerns publicly, the profession is silenced entirely.

“AHPRA’s regulatory framework exists to protect the public from genuine clinical harm. It was not designed, and should not be used, to enforce conformity on contested questions of medical science and public policy.

“A regulator that treats professional dissent as a threat to public safety is no longer acting as a safeguard. It is acting as a censor.”hui

That comment is exactly why Cairns News accuses the transgender lobby of being a political mafia. This mob is hellbent on enforcing its ideology as something that cannot be questioned.

This is the same political mafia that has run a legal harrassment campaign against Family First leader Lyle Shelton into it’s sixth year because Shelton made social media posts saying it was inappropriate for children to be exposed to sexually charged transgender library readings.

The HRLA says the proportionality of AHPRA’s response deserves scrutiny because Queensland has paused the initiation of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors in the public health system until 2031, pending the results of a UK clinical trial.

“The Queensland government’s independent review, led by Professor Ruth Vine, found the evidence base for these treatments in young people to be limited. How can it be proportionate for a regulator to discipline a psychiatrist for raising concerns that his own state government now shares?”

In the Family Court case Re Devin (2025), Justice Andrew Strum denied a mother’s request to start an 11-year-old child on puberty blockers, granting sole parental responsibility to the father. The ruling criticised the gender-affirming care model and the clinic’s diagnosis, prioritizing the child’s broader welfare.

Judge Strum also found that expert evidence from a prominent gender clinic doctor was “misleading and advocate-like”.

However this clinic has apparently escaped the attention of AHPRA. Instead the doctors raising safety concerns are the ones being punished.

Dr Amos and Dr Spencer have raised the same concerns that promped Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway to pause these treatments. The UK also paused them after the Cass Review.

In Australia, raising those concerns gets you gagged, suspended, investigated, and professionally destroyed before any finding is even made.

What’s your thoughts…?