Thread by @k_mahlburg

Australia's medical regulator @Ahpra secretly planned to embed gender ideology into its regulatory processes over a 3–5 year horizon.

All the while, it was gagging doctors who questioned child 'gender medicine'.

And fighting FOI requests to keep the plan hidden.

A thread. 🧵

The @australian obtained memos exposing the plan.

In them, AHPRA chief Justin Untersteiner said the regulator's engagement with trans lobby group ACON guides "the way we regulate and fulfil our purpose of ensuring the preservation of public safety."

ACON — formerly the AIDS Council of NSW — lost its @abcnews partnership this month after it emerged the national broadcaster's news and programming had been heavily shaped by the lobby group.

Now critics want AHPRA to follow suit.

Women's Forum Australia CEO @RachaelWongAus said an institution captured by an "anti-scientific ideology" could not be trusted with public safety.

"AHPRA must urgently cut ties with ACON if it is going to regain its independence and the public's trust."

A February 2024 National Executive agenda paper — marked "In Confidence" — detailed a National Scheme LGBTIQA+ Equity and Inclusion Strategy that would "include reforms of people, policies and regulatory processes over a 3–5 year time horizon."

The strategy wasn't framed as internal HR.

It explicitly extended to "improving access to the National Scheme, external engagement initiatives and National Board portfolios."

Regulatory processes — reshaped by a trans lobby group.

AHPRA fought hard to keep the documents hidden.

It argued releasing its ACON correspondence would be "contrary to the public interest" — because it might discourage parties from providing "unconventional, controversial, challenging or novel" views.

A coalition of 46 registered doctors wrote to the National Health Practitioner Ombudsman asking it to investigate whether AHPRA's ACON ties created "conflicts of interest or ideological entanglement."

The Ombudsman declined.

The Ombudsman's reasoning: AHPRA's engagement with ACON "demonstrates its efforts in engaging with all communities."

An investigation would not be "appropriate or in the public interest."

Meanwhile, the regulatory record tells a different story.

AHPRA banned Queensland psychiatrist Dr Andrew Amos from making online statements about 'gender medicine' and from direct clinical contact.

No finding of patient harm has been made against him.

It launched an investigation into child psychiatrist Dr @Jilliantweeting Spencer after she shared an article quoting her about Dr Amos's case.

Dr Spencer had already been sacked by Queensland Health in September 2025 — one month before an independent panel was due to report.

It dismissed a complaint against Dr Michelle Telfer — chief of medicine at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne — finding she was "meeting accepted standards of practice."

Even though a Family Court judge had found her expert evidence "misleading" and advocate-like.

It also registered Beth Upton — a male doctor at the centre of a landmark UK legal dispute over women's spaces — as "female," allowing Upton to work in two NSW hospitals.

As Rachael Wong puts it, AHPRA has "persecuted doctors trying to raise the alarm about the harm being done to children" while registering "multiple trans-identified male doctors as 'female' knowing full well the issues this raises for single-sex spaces and care."

When asked about the growing scandal, AHPRA told The Daily Declaration it engages with organisations to ensure the system is "safe, inclusive and responsive to the needs of all Australians" and that all decisions are "made impartially [and] based on evidence".

Ahpra's response did not address the specific questions put to it — the content of the February 2024 strategy documents, the pattern of decisions involving Drs Amos, Spencer, and Telfer, or the registration of Beth Upton as female.

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