Whistleblower Psychiatrist Jillian Spencer Cleared After Three-Year AHPRA Fight
Jillian Spencer, a Queensland psychiatrist suspended for questioning childhood gender treatments, has been cleared by AHPRA, as her hospital prepares to release its own statement.
Australia’s medical regulator has cleared child psychiatrist Dr Jillian Spencer to continue working, ending a three-year investigation sparked by her warnings about childhood “gender medicine”.
Spencer announced the outcome on X, telling followers the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency was “taking no further action” against her. “I get to keep working as a psychiatrist!” she wrote, thanking supporters who “got me through this” and urging other doctors to “please be emboldened to speak up against the scandal of paediatric gender medicine”.
The probe followed a notification from Queensland’s Office of the Health Ombudsman, which alleged Spencer’s social media posts had criticised “gender-affirming care” and encouraged followers to petition against it.
A separate dispute with her employer, Queensland Health, over her 2023 suspension and later dismissal from Queensland Children’s Hospital, is resolved, Spencer told a Brisbane rally on 12 July — though she said she could not disclose details.
The Australian reported that Spencer’s dismissal is still being challenged through a Supreme Court application for judicial review, in a case yet to be heard.
Spencer’s Three-Year Fight
Spencer, a senior child and adolescent psychiatrist who has worked for 20 years at Queensland Health, was stood down in April 2023 after raising concerns about the hospital’s treatment protocols for gender-distressed children. She was suspended later that year and issued a termination notice in September 2025, which she challenged through a Supreme Court application for judicial review.
Her union, the Red Union Support Hub, called the dismissal “a miscarriage of justice”. An open letter from the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society and the Nurses’ Professional Association of Australia told Queensland Health ministers that Spencer had suffered the very “professional isolation” the department’s own safety framework was meant to prevent.
Spencer has consistently maintained her objection was clinical, not ideological. At Saturday’s rally, organised under the banner “Reclaim Our Rights, Fix the Act”, she told several hundred attendees that “the gender transitioning of children is a medical scandal”.
She said the Australian model involves affirming a child’s claimed gender identity, prescribing puberty-suppressing drugs, and later administering cross-sex hormones ahead of surgical referral.
“Over the last six years, there have been multiple systematic reviews of the worldwide research literature that have found that gender interventions lack evidence of benefit and cause serious harms,” Spencer told the crowd, citing infertility, loss of sexual function and regret among the documented risks.
An Ideology Under Scrutiny
At the rally, Spencer said AHPRA “had aligned itself with the perspective of gender activists” and accused the regulator of punishing practitioners who raise concerns rather than the clinicians prescribing the treatments.
As evidence for her claim, she noted AHPRA’s formal partnerships with two LGBTQIA+ workplace schemes, arguing they embed a particular ideological position “at all levels of its organisation”.
A survey of more than 18,000 Australian health professionals, reported by The Daily Declaration in March, found the overwhelming majority believed medicine had become politicised.
Spencer shared Saturday’s platform with Giggle founder Sall Grover, former Queensland Greens founder Drew Hutton, and One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts. The rally called for the Sex Discrimination Act to be amended to restore biological definitions of sex, following the Federal Court’s Tickle v Giggle ruling that the protections in the Act extend beyond biological sex to claimed gender identity.
Queensland Children’s Hospital is expected to issue its own statement on Friday covering Spencer’s employment status.
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