Victorian Liberal Leader settles defamation cases against KJK and Angie Jones

[DerekFaker]

Stop. Calling. Women. Nazis.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victorian-liberal-leader-john-pesutto-settles-two-defamation-cases-20240516-p5jeao.html

is Kellie still on X, I can't find her?

https://twitter.com/ThePosieParker

What a weaselly non-pology. He better be making a real one in the speech tomorrow.

Having now read his apology and listened to KJK in the video it all feels a bit bland. I'm assuming the exact wording has been hammered out and agreed in order to keep both sides happy bit it doesn't feel like he's learnt anything or means what he said and KJK seemed not her usual fired up self.

Definitely has a underwhelming shag feel about it. I find myself wanting to ask "seriously is that it?"

I saw ‘Victorian Liberal Leader’ and wondered why Gladstone would be defaming KJK.

Our national broadcaster the ABC referred to the LWS event as “anti trans rights “ on the radio this morning. They also misrepresented Sal Grover in her legal action. I’m lodging a complaint. Here is a link for anyone else in Australia wishing to do so too.
https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=6354974197519

Have also made a complain Wearingmybluejumper! Now to see how Moira's case proceeds!

My brain ALWAYS has that kind of initial 😵‍💫 response (“Victorian police” is a good one…) to stories from that part of Australia 🤦‍♀️

I could possibly go along to something he’s turning up at this weekend, I wonder if I’d get a chance to talk to him?

Surely he will have to issue an apology and big settlement to Moria Deeming. Part of his “dossier” on Moira was the imputation that she was a neo-Nazi associate for being with with KJ K. Now he admits KJK is not a neo-Nazi, surely he has nowhere to go with Moira?

I don’t think that Pesutto is very bright. What I don’t get is why do both sides of politics in Australia (and especially Victoria) toe the gender line? I am sure the vast majority of Australians are gender critical even if they don’t realise it. This could be a real point of distinction from Labor if Pesutto was smart enough to realise it!

i don't have the numbers but I remember Kit and Edie saying that the numbers of kids going through the gender clinics were orders of magnitude higher than the ones going through GIDS.

So possibly much more to lose if you admit it is all based on a lie.

You could be right. There are probably a lot of reasons. The fact that the tide is turning in UK at least is giving me hope that the same will start to happen here!!

Some figures - for public clinics - from 2022.
Victoria and Queensland, both densely populated states in Australia, have seen the highest growth in pediatric gender clinic referrals. In 2021, 1,120 children were enrolled in public clinics in Victoria, and 635 in Queensland.

This 2023 paper looks at The clinical profile of patients attending a large, Australian pediatric gender service: A 10-year review. The gender service in question is the RCHGS.
Medical interventions for TGD children and adolescents were first initiated in the Netherlands in the late 1990s. Since then, referrals for medical care for TGD children and adolescents have dramatically risen in many countries, for example in the USA (Chen et al., 2016; Handler et al., 2019) and England (The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, 2018). The Royal Children’s Hospital Gender Service (RCHGS) in Melbourne, Australia, is Australia’s largest pediatric gender service and has seen a similar trend, from a single referral since its inception in 2003 to 336 in 2019. The RCHGS currently provides multidisciplinary, gender-affirming healthcare for TGD children and adolescents throughout the entire state of Victoria, Australia.

KJK will be holding a Let Women Speak event in Oklahoma today. Live stream at 7pm our time.