The rhetoric in Australia has become really nasty in the last couple of weeks.
This is partly because of:
- The bill before the Victorian parliament (passed the lower house) which allows birth certificates to be edited on the basis of a declaration by the individual backed up by one written by someone who has known them 12 months.
- The fact that there was a meeting held at Melbourne university discussing sex based rights which was protested by TWAW
- Cricket Australia
- The Australian (newspaper) not only publishing a number of articles about puberty blockers and ROGD but also collating all the articles published on trans issues under the heading gender. This is a Murdoch owned right wing paper and left/woke society reflexively dismisses everything published there.
- As a response to 4 the strongest Gay voices on Australian twitter have been up in arms.
- Labor and Greens politicians have buckled down and have been photographed holding signs saying 'I support fair birth certificates' (yes. We've asked what an unfair certificate is but there is no answer).
- The backlash from feminists upset that the decriminalisation of abortion in NSW has finally been achieved without the word woman appearing in the legislation. The bill refers to pregnant people. Woke logic is hurt that anyone objects to the inclusiveness of the bill.
Our federal gov is headed by our first ever evangelical prime minister. This is a racist, homophobic, misogynistic leadership that is trying to dismantle all that was good about the country. The official opposition is weak. And to agree with the gov on anything at all - including the idea that biological sex is relevant and unchangeable - is considered by the so called left to be horrendous.
There has been a lot of shouting about how trans children and people and being hurt. How likely they are to self harm. To attempt suicide. It's shoddy and it's going to convince some people that if they truly are who they say they are they need to demonstrate it.
I'll probably complain to the guardian about this cartoon. But they won't pay attention.
(First dog has over the last few years often been a source of laughter and comfort. Never again after this harmful bullshit).