Jude Hunter is an Australian anti-transgender activist. Hunter is the unaccepting parent of an adult child who made a gender transition. Hunter is a member of anti-trans hate group Genspect.
Background
Judith “Jude” Hunter is parent and stepparent to five adult children. One of the children, born in ~2001, began transition in around 2018.
Anti-trans activism
According to the Genspect conference program:
Jude Hunter is a Commerce and Business Graduate and a Mum and Stepmum to 5 now adult children. She was shocked when Medical Professionals in Australia wanted to immediately prescribe her daughter testosterone without adequately considering her daughterâs comorbid mental health issues. She found the way that medical professionals treated her and her husbandâs questioning of the proposed âtreatmentâ pathway alarming and very damaging to the familyâs dynamics. Jude has spent over 5.5 years researching the way gender ideology has impacted society and the harm it is causing to young people who are being rushed into irreversible interventions. She believes that a trauma-informed model should be used with young people to assess their distress properly, rather than ignore the source of their feelings and bury them under the false hope of a new âidentityâ. She has helped lobby for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the use of the âgender affirmation modelâ in Australia, something that has unfortunately been voted against by many Australian MPs.
Hunter appears as “Jennifer” in the 2024 book Devastated by Kirralie Smith. Hunter was a panelist at the 2024 Genspect conference in Lisbon.
References
Smith, Kirralie (May 13, 2025). Newcastle mother to share her story in person. Binary https://www.binary.org.au/newcastle-mother-to-share-her-story-in-person
Wachsmuth, Lisa (February 21, 2025). Puberty blues: The war over trans teens. The Daily Telegraph https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/health/why-children-need-protection-from-zealous-use-of-puberty-blockers-and-hormone-therapy/news-story/35a3dce2b0e00ab3503eb2a0a8c5f409
Doumit, Monica (February 15, 2024). âPlease donât look away,â detransitioners plead. The Catholic Weekly https://catholicweekly.com.au/please-dont-look-away-detransitioners-plead/
Smith, Kirralie (2024). Devastated: How Gender Ideology is Tearing Australian Families Apart. Binary, ISBN 978-0646703190
Sheehan, Catherine (December 1, 2022). Irreversible damage to young lives shows danger of âconversion therapyâ laws. Archidiocese of Hobart https://hobart.catholic.org.au/2022/12/01/irreversible-damage-to-young-lives-shows-danger-of-conversion-therapy-laws/
Smith, Kirralie (May 20, 2022). The trauma of trans regret. Binary https://www.binary.org.au/the_trauma_of_trans_regret
Se;ected anti-trans writing by Hunter
Halasz, G., Holloway, G., Hunter, J., Fraser, J., Deves, K., Kenny, D. T., Taylor, E., Whitehall, J., Parkinson, P., & Morris, P. (2021). Australian Perspectives on Transgendering Children and Adolescents: Implications for Policy and Practice. Unpublished. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.12271.97449
Media
ACL â Australian Christian Lobby with Michelle Pearse (Apr 29, 2024). The Truth Behind the Gender Agenda | Does affirmation reduce suicidality? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24zDFn9HDQA
Desexing Society Podcast with Stassja Frei, Judith Hunter, Dianna Kenny, âJulieâ and Sandra Pertot (April 23, 2024). Episode 1: Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8ZceX3zruc
Genspect with “Shannon Thrace,” Judith Hunter, and Emma Thomas (February 5, 2025). The Dark Side of Gender Affirmation: Families Share Their Pain – Panel Discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBrBFzaKAuY
IWD Brisbane (June 8, 2021). Judith Hunter – When Your Daughter Experiences Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnmJ49Dki3A
Resources
Genspect (genspect.org)
- Australia
- genspect.org/international/australia
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