More and more countries are waking up to the dangers posed to children by extremist trans activism and gender ideology, leaving the Albanese government increasingly isolated in its enthusiastic support for the hideous movement.

It began in the United Kingdom, at the Tavistock gender clinic in London. Its practices and treatment of children presenting with ‘gender identity’ issues prompted a groundbreaking inquiry commissioned by the country’s National Health Service in 2020. The Cass Review found very little clinical evidence supporting the use of puberty blockers for adolescents, and a lot of evidence of the long-term physiological and psychological harms from their use.

In 2011, the Tavistock clinic had 250 kids seeking treatment. In 2021, this number had risen to more than 5000. Similar rapid rises have occurred in Australia, including a 100-fold increase in adolescents being treated with puberty blockers at public clinics in Australia from 2014 to 2021.

The Cass Review recommended an end to the ‘gender affirmation’ approach to these kids, and the NHS issued clinical guidelines requiring more holistic, comprehensive assessments and approaches to treating children with gender issues.

Other countries have followed the UK’s example, including Belgium, Finland, Turkey and Canada. Last week New Zealand joined the growing number of countries now requiring holistic treatments instead of automatically putting kids on life-altering puberty-suppression drugs as a prelude to gender re-assignment surgery.

On the back of New Zealand’s about-turn, Pauline Hanson again moved for a Senate inquiry into the use of puberty blockers and yet again Labor and the Greens – along with cross bench senators Pocock, Thorpe and Tyrrell – blocked it. For the fifth time!

The bell, however, is tolling for trans activism. Their excesses – including death threats against women seeking to preserve the rights and exclusive spaces they fought for over generations – are opening eyes in other countries while Labor and the Greens remain blind to the harms they’re inflicting on our most vulnerable Australians.