Homosexuality and Bisexuality is not an identity.
It is a sexuality.
Same sex attraction has always existed throughout history, and in all cultures.
It is an innate human characteristic.
To claim, as gender identity ideologists do, that gender fluidity disallows the existence of same-sex attraction is an attack on homosexuals.
Attempting to impose gender identity ideology on the LGB is a denial of our rights.
When Justine’s* 11-year-old daughter came home from school last year wanting to borrow her mum’s work rainbow flag lanyard and talking about demiboys, pansexual and transexual – she thought it was sweet.
But the zealous encouragement of her teacher to help Eve transition to Ewan without Justine’s consent has left her feeling helpless and suffering breakdowns.
Justine says she first realised her daughter, who was “introverted” and “struggled socially”, was possibly suffering gender dysphoria was when she came home from sex education and told her she wanted to change her name to Ollie.
“I was taken aback and didn’t know how to respond. I kind of bought into it and thought, ‘oh she’s one of them’ (a transexual). But then when other kids in her class came out one by one, I started to think this is not right and I started researching,” she explains to Kidspot.
Justine, who works as a social worker supporting parents of teenage children, said she explained to the teacher that they wanted to wait and watch and were having assessments done, but the following day she overheard the teacher talking to Eve at the end of an online class.
“She started by saying, ‘I’m very proud of you. ‘We know your mum doesn’t understand this, but I do, and I am here for you and if you want to use the different gendered toilets and be called Ollie, I’ll sort it out’,” the distraught mum says.
However, the teacher called Justine to advise her she was arranging a meeting with the Department of Education to educate her on the research into outcomes for children if they aren’t affirmed.
She fears Eve is now on the slippery slope to wanting to medically transition, trying to buy a chest binder online and asking whether ‘T’, testosterone is a tablet or injection.
Source: ‘She cut all her hair off in the middle of the night and also said she was a boy’ | Kidspot
A popular transgender TikToker in Australia is facing multiple charges related to the repeated sexual abuse of a child.
Rachel Queen Burton, 44, has been accused of crimes including the production of child exploitation material and gross indecency. In total, Burton is facing 8 charges, all of which appear to stem from a child victim who was repeatedly abused throughout 2019. While Burton is from Australia’s Northern Territory, the crimes were committed in the Southern state.
Burton’s case was first reported by The Advertiser, which referred to Burton as a “woman” and utilized feminine pronouns for him.
His birth name has not yet been verified, but it is known that Burton is the father of four children, all of whom seem to be tattooed on his chest. He does not appear to have lived with the children at any point in the last year, which is when his TikTok account was launched.
Magistrate Simon Smart opted to remand Burton to custody. A hearing on the charges is expected in December. It is currently unknown if he is being housed in the male or female estate, but Australian law is notoriously lax on gender self-identification.
In August, female inmates at Australia’s largest women’s correctional facility in Victoria launched a petition to have a trans-identified male sex offender removed out of fears for their own safety.
While the name of the transferred inmate was not released to the public, Reduxx determined that the details from the criminal’s background mirror that of Lisa Jones, a trans-identified male who had been sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman last year. During his trial, it was revealed that Jones also had a prior record for sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl in Germany.
Source: AUS: Trans TikToker Facing Multiple Child Sexual Abuse Charges – Reduxx
A city council has apologised to veteran feminist and lesbian activist Julie Bindel after cancelling a talk because of “the speaker’s views on transgender rights”.
Bindel has been accused of transphobia because she says she does not believe trans women can legitimately say they are a woman. At the time, she said she had no plan to talk about transgender issues.
“I was going up to speak about feminism, about violence against women,” she said. “I was invited by a group of community activists who are trying to keep the library open.”
In a post on her Substack blog discussing the recent development by the council, Bindel said: “I consider it to be deeply offensive and problematic for public bodies to decide that I am too controversial and even dangerous for women to listen to when I am talking about campaigning to end rape and domestic abuse.
A spokesperson for the council said: “Nottingham city council has agreed that, if Nottingham Women for Change seeks to make a booking at any Nottingham city council venue by way of a fully completed booking form, the council will make a fresh decision in response to such request upon a lawful basis.”
The forum was called “Pride and Prejudice in Policy” and was hosted by the School of History and Philosophy of Science within the Arts Faculty of the University of Melbourne. Hardly a hotbed of reactionary or conservative thinking – quite the contrary.
The forum was a discussion about how diversity benchmark programs work. Nobody was questioning transgenderism itself. But apparently some trans activists believe that even discussing benchmarking is to be equated with being transphobic. They argue that any debate which could lead to discussing the difference between sex and gender is in itself a transphobic discussion.
Not one word undermining the lived experience of transgender and gender-diverse people was uttered at the forum – nor was ever going to be. The three-person panel included long-standing activist Dr Julie Peters who has frequently documented her own transition and has become the unofficial archivist of the struggle for transgender rights.
Another of our panellists, Linda Gale, is a long-serving and distinguished member of the Australian Greens and a union official. As she explained in a column in The Age in June, she was this year removed from the elected position of convenor of the Victorian Greens after trans lobbyists objected to some aspects of an internal Greens discussion paper she had written a few years before.
It’s hard to comprehend how a life-long feminist leftie, who has devoted herself to a smorgasbord of progressive causes, could be described as transphobic. Trying to shout down a forum on how a workplace diversity program operates seems a lot like bullying.
Free speech is an essential ingredient to any functioning democracy and particularly any independent centre for scholarship and deep thinking, such as the University of Melbourne. Free speech never means open slather – there are all sorts of qualifiers including the laws on defamation and hate speech. But a respectful and sensitive discussion of issues that can be a major influence on our community must never be declared off limits.
I am mystified at how some people within the trans community have become so aggressive and censorious. Attacking your friends does not help in the battle against real enemies. When it comes to supporting diversity, the champions of diversity must show they can embrace diversity of opinion, too.
Source: Trans politics: “I was a protestor – now a protest has been directed at me”
Maternal Scholars Australia Symposium: Decentering Motherhood: On the Politics of Sex
Source: Decentering Mothers: On the Politics of Sex Tickets, Fri 07/10/2022 at 5:00 pm | Eventbrite
About 42,000 U.S. children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021, nearly triple the number in 2017, a unique data analysis for Reuters found.
Source: Number of transgender children seeking treatment surges in U.S.
Since Ada Evans became the first woman in Australia to graduate in law 120 years ago, many other trailblazing women at the University of Sydney have followed in her footsteps. In 2022, we celebrate all our women of law – from those who paved the way to the changemakers of the future.
Evans, born in England in 1872, was Australia’s first female law graduate. After completing a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney in 1895, Evans returned to the University four years later, at her mother’s urging, to study law. She was the first woman enrolled in the degree, and legend has it that her application was only successful because the then–Dean was away at the time and unable to thwart the attempt.
While Evans was the first woman to graduate with a law degree in Australia in 1902, she was not the first to practise the law; that honour went to Marie Byles. When Evans graduated, women were in fact not permitted to practise law. It was an injustice Evans worked for the next two decades to overcome.
Marie Byles was the recipient of Evans’s campaigning efforts. A rabble-rouser from the very beginning, Byles’s life was almost too bombastic to be believed. After winning a scholarship to the University, she graduated with a degree in arts in 1921, followed by law in 1924. She was the first woman admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales, a feat only managed due to the diligence and persistence of Evans.
When Byles established her own practice in 1929 – the first woman in New South Wales to do so – she quickly became known not just for her sharp legal mind, but for her nifty organisational skills, with a reputation for speedily processing matters. She also gained a reputation for taking on female clients, assisting them with divorce settlements at a time when divorce was still rare and stigmatised.
Largely forgotten to history, Ada Evans and Marie Byles have an influence and impact that they might find difficult to believe, over one hundred years after their lives converged through their connection to the University of Sydney’s Law School. For the generations of women who have come after them – consciously or not – they made the law possible, and penetrable.
Source: Trailblazing women paved the way for future women of law – The University of Sydney
Briskin and Maggipinto are asking that something conventional medicine would treat as normal – the fact that they can’t gestate a baby, because both of them are male — be viewed not as a natural limitation but a healthcare issue deserving of treatment.‘Most people, gay or straight, who resort to surrogacy do so to satisfy their longing to love and care for a child. We should recognise that this is at root a deeply human desire. But if love is the glue that holds human communities together, it can also drive choices with wider negative impacts. Surrogacy, and particularly surrogacy as a “cure” for normal biological limitations, is such a choice.It opens the door to a limitless, profit-driven drive to deregulate the human organism — a drive that will, in the last count, mostly benefit Big Biotech. And this pathway only stays in the warm light of love and normalcy for a few steps. After that, we’re into the realm of monsters: mutilated children, human/animal chimeras, gamete and organ harvesting and medical experimentation, to name but a few already-existing examples.If we continue down this road, gay men and women will end up losing the (only recently acquired) right to be naturally gay. And if this is bad enough, it will come to seem trivial next to the triumph of commercial biomedicine, and the swarm of protean horrors that comes slithering in its wake.’
Lesbians United, a group that parked a #SaveTheTomboys truck around NYC, has been waging a campaign to wrest masculine girls from the clutches of an ideology that told them they were or might be boys because they were more male-typical than female-typical. I never talked to this group, but there is some research that shows tomboyish girls are more likely to grow up to be lesbians than non-tomboyish girls.
When I interviewed affirmative but nuanced clinicians (they exist! I promise!), they told me they weren’t as worried about the “always tomboy” types, the ones who’d been super masculine since childhood—presumably, they’d be less likely to regret (that leaves aside the important question of whether they would want to transition if we had room for gender nonconformity, but that’s for another time). The clinicians were far more worried about the almost-never-before-seen cohort of teens, mostly girls, arriving at clinics self-diagnosed with gender dysphoria and demanding medical intervention: the bulk of the 4000-5000% increase in trans kids. That means that the majority of girls with this condition, and likely undergoing transition, were not tomboyish. When you listen to stories of rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria girls, they are remarkably similar, right down to being properly feminine in childhood. Thus, dysphoria is also, to a certain extent, popular.
Have the tomboys disappeared? In many ways yes—some because they identify as trans these days, and some because it’s simply not a hip style for kids. There are masculine young women who transitioned and found solace, and there are masculine young women—and feminine young women!—who transitioned and realized they were lesbians (or straight) and wish they hadn’t changed themselves. Medical associations are not developing protocols to make sure people understand the relationship between gender and sexuality, or based on the very real premise that there is no way to tell who will persist or desist, be satisfied or regretful. Instead, the culture war continues, and it looks like this:
Source: Where Have All the Tomboys Gone?
