The health minister, Mark Butler, has announced a review of the Australian standards of care and treatment guidelines for trans and gender diverse children and adolescents.
The National Health and Medical Research Council will undertake the review and develop new national guidelines, with interim advice on the use of puberty blockers to be given in the middle of next year.
Butler says the council will develop the guidelines alongside an expert committee that includes lived experience.
States and territories are responsible for providing and administering services for gender diverse and trans young people.
It comes after the health minister of Queensland this week announced a ban on puberty blockers for all new patients of the state’s only gender clinic at the Royal Brisbane hospital.