{"id":303872,"date":"2025-11-23T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303872\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:07:12","slug":"dame-sue-bagshaw-puberty-blockers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303872\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Sue Bagshaw: Puberty blockers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the government put the brakes on the use of puberty blockers. The drugs delay the onset of puberty in children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Simeon Brown said the changes were about ensuring treatments are safe and carefully managed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Youth health expert Dame Sue Bagshaw talks to Paddy about what this will mean for those young people affected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4NBLUYF_126742633_l_normal_none_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Back to school. Two cute asian child girls with school bag holding hand and walk together in the school\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: 123RF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week the government put the brakes on the use of puberty blockers. The drugs delay the onset&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,137,490,44,1591,1588,1586,1587],"class_list":["post-303872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}