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Legal threats over gender-affirming care: What GPs need to know
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Legal threats over gender-affirming care: What GPs need to know
Wednesday 26 March 2025, 12:00 AM

“Bin it” says medicolegal advisor of legal letter sent to providers of gender-affirming care [Image: Patcharin Saenlakon on iStock]
Doctors nationwide received legal letters ‘warning’ them of potential legal action for prescribing puberty blockers and other gender-affirming care. Frances Matthews responds
No one drags children into doctors’ offices to indoctrinate them or force them to accept treatment
Doctors in New Zealand who provide gender-affi
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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