1. "#Trans patients are swapping tips online on where to find 'friendly' doctors who are willing to prescribe hormones to make them look more like the opposite sex."

First of all, may I say how delightful it is to see Cross taking part in News Corp's long corporate tradition of suggesting that hormones are simply a skin-deep intervention which allow perverted, predatory, subhuman transgenderists to deceive their well-meaning, normal, fully human cisgender peers.

Now, in this context, the word "friendly" is being used to imply bias, like having a "friendly" judge. It might be possible to superficially get away with the use of the word 'friendly' here if it were a direct quote which had this meaning in context.

However, the only context we know Cross to have had is a single #reddit thread, and, for one thing, the word 'friendly' doesn't appear at all in that comment's OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderau/comments/wot3ad/any_good_websites_on_informed_consent/

It also only appears in one comment, which describes a Brisbane-based trans health provider, Dr #VictoriaFeatherstone, as having a "very comforting and friendly manner": https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderau/comments/wot3ad/comment/ikg7wl2/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

The construction of the paragraph suggests that it's decisive proof of bias to prescribe gender-affirming hormones at all. In fact, where they're clinically justified, to not prescribe them would be medical negligence — because it would fall short of the relevant standard of care: https://www.armstronglegal.com.au/commercial-law/qld/tort-law/medical-negligence/