The stranglehold of GI in Australia - finally an article/opinion in a major newspaper that sets it out

[SeethingHarpie]

We have long been arguing against the thrall of GI ideology in Australia, only to have laws passed and sex-based rights obliterated by stealth by unheralded and undebated policy at all levels of government and society.

Australian children are totally unprotected against both the raging transagenda and extreme transmedical conveyer belt that has harmed so many children and youth.

GI ideology is rampant throughout political, social, educational and media spheres - with the punishment for dissent or merely stating biological reality sufficient to be prosecuted.

In many states:

birth certificates can be changed (to falsify natal sex, or even to classify a person as X ie. non binary), with people allowed to change their “gender” once every 12 months, parents can change the sex on birth certificates of their children up to age 10, and children over 10 can do so themselves.

parents can be prosecuted and have their child removed from their care if they disagree with affirming medicine and care.

teachers are obligated under law and educational guidance to report parents who do not immediately affirm a child declaring they are transgender, are expected to assist social transitions, and to keep the information from any parents who are “unsafe” and would not be open to their child transitioning.

students who declare themselves as transgender at any age (primary or secondary) are immediately permitted to use the opposite sex facilities, and any child who is uncomfortable or parent who objects or even questions are threatened with being reported to the Anti Discrimination Commission for prosecution.

the media has been totally captured - they have gleefully dismissed the Cass Report as irrelevant to Australia, and have continued to push the narrative that “transgender children will die if denied lifesaving gender affirming drugs and surgeries”, that protesting for women’s rights is “anti-trans”, and that people can actually change sex and only bigots say otherwise (and those bigots should be prosecuted/punished).

Given all the above, I couldn’t believe this article/opinion condemning issues regarding transing children, gender affirming medications and surgeries, and GI ideology has actually been published in my state newspaper. I sincerely hope it shocks, frightens, and encourages all who read it to find out more about the reality of GI Ideology and the damage it is doing to children, to women and to basic concept of biological reality.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/des-houghton/des-houghton-gender-activists-have-scored-a-resounding-victory/news-story/90e8973db6e4d031f170716a8b7d3ff4

@R053 I agree the pressure to conform to a new belief that doesn't make sense increases frustration. People know what female and male means, being told to deny material reality never works in the longer term.
I wonder how many people voted for Trump because they sadly thought he was the better option for their children rather than Harris (while at the same time wishing Harris policy was more realistic).

R053 · Yesterday 22:26
I suspect it’s less of an issue in Australia because it doesn’t affect the day to day life of most. A third of children are sent to private schools, which are not expected to comply with gender affirming principles on the basis of religious exemption. So even if you are a non religious family, you can side step it to some extent, as many send their kids to religious schools for a more traditional education.

I have to politely disagree with the idea that private schools are not pushing this.
Perhaps smaller Catholic (and obviously Muslim schools) are not, but the largest private girls' school in Melbourne is a hotbed of this, and has been for some years. A Western Australian girls' school disciplined students who did not call a male teacher Miss.
The #be kind is heavily enforced amongst the wealthier schools, especially girls' schools
Whether it affects your day to day life or not I suspect depends on where you live. It decidedly does affect my life. Where I live and where I work there are many trans identified people of both sexes.

It is rife in Catholic schools in Far North Queensland.

@Enough4me I agree with you re voting for Trump while wishing to vote for Harris but I had a look at Moms for Liberty on election night and they were winning seats in small elections all over. Those who voted really voiced their opinion on this subject. I found it very interesting.

@monkeyspaw That’s interesting, I hadn’t realised it was so rife in the wealthier and older private schools. I take your point about where you live and work being the source of how much it affects your day to day life.

I was in FNQ a few months ago and went out for a late lunch only to be seated next to a group of six male people with transgender identities. The discussion was very concerning about the ‘hatred’ that they receive.

One was saying how they reacted to a little girl who asked whether they were a man or woman.They proudly told the group that they told the the little girl to look at their (the male person’s) breasts and look at the girl’s mum’s breasts - and was their a difference? No. So that made them a ‘woman’.

The worst was one of them recounting the horror about them being asked to use a third space to change at the gym. I don’t know where. But two separate women had complained about them being in the female changing room in the past. The recounting went that they told the gym manager (female) that this was not acceptable and how dare the gym ask this. It was sexual harassment. The gym manager said ‘but you are not female. You do not have a female body.’ and this male person told the group that they ‘showed’ the manager that they did have a ‘female body’.

The person I was with and I looked at each other in alarm at that point. Because the way the story was told that male person showed the gym manager their crotch- and obviously had no comprehension of the magnitude of that act nor the ‘sexual harassment’ of that act. They were high on their righteousness of demanding access to the female gym changing room. We could only assume that male had had surgery.

It was certainly not something I expected to find discussed over a late lunch in FNQ. Plus one of male people walked past and was wearing a micro mini so short that we could see butt cheek at eye level. The suspender belt that was holding up fish net stockings was perhaps pulling the shirt up. The cleavage on display because of the bustier was startling too.

My family in FNQ is already pretty clued up about what has been happening, particularly in schools. I have said very little to them since discussions a few years ago when we first discussed it and they already knew a lot about it.

They knew much more detail about it than my friends in NSW major cities. When I have mentioned anything to some of my friends in NSW, the reaction is more of the ‘be kind’ sort and they don’t have much knowledge outside of that, but that is the minority. Some didn’t know much outside Hubbard and Lia Thomas and it didn’t impact their teens. The rest were quite well informed and were concerned about the impacts they were seeing. Particularly if they had teenaged girls. One friend asked me by text about the LWS rallies when they were happening because she was curious about who KJK was and did I know more as I was in the UK.

I suspect that there are a growing number of people in country areas now being directly exposed to what it means to lose female single sex spaces.

But I have to say in my semi-regular trips back, the knowledge is getting out there despite the poor media. Usually because the people are becoming interested and searching further for the information.

The thing is though, don’t underestimate who knows what and who knows who in Australia. I do know many in NSW & VIC cities who won’t discuss it openly.

agree. I work in a private school and we still had the training by the local council group same as the state schools.