Western Australians will no longer have to undergo medical or surgical reassignment in order to change their sex or gender, under the state government’s proposed law reforms.
The state’s Gender Reassignment Board, which manages applications to legally change a person’s gender, would be abolished under the new laws.
Attorney-General John Quigley said the legislation would bring WA in line with the rest of Australia.
The proposed law reform comes after a landmark investigation into gender-affirming care in England, known as the Cass Review.
It recommended significantly limiting the prescription of medications, known as puberty blockers, for people aged under 18.
Federal health minister Mark Butler described the review’s findings as “significant” but said the clinical treatment of transgender children in Australia was very different than in the UK.
[Ed: Sigh. What will it take for Australian politicians to educate themselves on this issue before introducing further harmful legislation?]
Source: Danielle Laidley among advocates to welcome bid to scrap WA Gender Reassignment Board – ABC News
“Ed: Sigh. What will it take for Australian politicians to educate themselves on this issue before introducing further harmful legislation?”
I think Australian politicians will need to grow up and go through puberty themselves really. This whole thing is so bizarre and so scientifically unhinged as to boggle the imagination.
If I had expressed the views that our elected officials are expressing back when I did high school biology I would have been immediately failed and my parents encouraged to take me to a psychiatrist.
The ‘fluidity of gender’ is the religion we get when we have removed God from the equation due to secularism. And just like a religion it is beyond logic and its adherents are proselytising fanatics.
Seeing big, strapping Mr Dan Laidley standing there at 6′ tall and an axe handle across the shoulders with pretend breasts and a dress on with two other men all straight faced is like some strange comedy.
Except that it’s very serious and very damaging.