The legal warning letters sent to 'gender affirmationists' and puberty blocker prescribers in NZ.
Continuing to professionally 'affirm gender' and/or prescribe puberty blockers may result in claims of exemplary damages down the track.
In mid-February, warning letters were sent to more than 20 different medical practices and organisations by the law firm Franks Ogilvie, on behalf of their client Inflection Point, about the potential for litigation due to prescribing, or promoting the use of, puberty blockers for minors.¹ Two of these letters are now available for public perusal. One of them is to PATHA (Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare Aotearoa); and the other is to a gender affirming healthcare practitioner, who has already published it online.
People here in New Zealand have wondered how litigation against those who’ve promoted and/or prescribed puberty blockers would get around our ACC - Accident Compensation Corporation - scheme. ACC was set up to be a no-fault scheme for all New Zealanders for injury or accident. However, it seems that due to the increasing amount of information internationally available about the negative impacts of ‘gender affirmation’ this might “not preclude exemplary damages² where a defendant is wilfully reckless, and does not preclude actions by disciplinary bodies”.
The letters to PATHA, and the gender affirming healthcare practitioner Michael Brenndorfer, are screenshot below in their entirety, and attached as PDFs at the bottom.
Other attached PDFs are letters to -
Simeon Brown - Minister for Health
Matt Doocey - Associate Minister for Health, and Minister of Mental Health
Inflection Point’s submission for the public consultation on Puberty Blockers
In further pushback against gender ideology, NZ First leader Winston Peters has publicly stated in an interview with Ryan Bridges that he is NOT happy with the sex self-ID law in NZ. This is a major hint that NZ First may move to formulate a policy to repeal the sex self-ID law for passports & birth certificates.
¹A warning shot gets fired across the bows of NZ’s ‘gender-affirming care’ clinics.
² Accident Compensation Act 2001 - Exemplary damages
Great to have all the letters in one article. Thanks heaps Katrina. I hope this puts the wind up these deniers of reality.
Timely....good for Mr Franks,(a moral man of sense)accepting Inflection point's instructions to legitimately point out the heinous damage done by the prescribing of puberty blockers(cancer drugs e.g. intended for treating prostate cancers)that do not just 'halt' or hold up puberty for a while, but damage the body's systems and interfere with maturation.