Insane legal system in Australia

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13200243/australia-puberty-blockers-father.html

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The night before his 11-year-old daughter was due to start taking puberty blockers, Brad* sat down with her for an important conversation.

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Brad says he submitted a written objection but the hospital's ethics committee elected to provide the drugs without his consent.

'I would have had to go to Family Court to stop my child being involved in what essentially is a medical trial – I was just gobsmacked,' Brad tells me.   

'All the literature here would indicate both parents have to agree but a lawyer who works in this field said puberty blockers are considered so routine now that you would have to take it to court to stop it.

'And if you do, the court is just going to order a second opinion and that would come from another children's hospital, and it's not likely to be any different from what the Adelaide one has said.

'My legal advice was that I would be wasting my time and tens of thousands of dollars.'

So in one last attempt to get his daughter to at least consider delaying treatment, he sat down with her and together they read - 'line by line' - a factsheet provided by the clinic about puberty blockers and the user instructions from the drug's manufacturer, Lucrin.