Recommendations of the Queensland children's gender service external evaluation and their implications for health policy in Australia

Abstract

Objective: To review the evaluation process and the implications for Australian health policy of the 2024 external clinical service evaluation of the Queensland Children's Gender Service (QCGS) and its recommendations.; Conclusions: Failing to perform a systematic review of the relevant literature, and adhering to discredited and ideologically based guidelines, the Review made recommendations lacking evidentiary support that have major implications for Queensland and other Australian health services. The evaluation report's recommendations reveal eight areas of concern about the clinic's functioning.; Competing Interests: DisclosureThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.