“Devastated” Victorian parents left in the dark as schools allow their kids to socially transition | Sun Herald
Victorian kids with gender dysphoria are being socially transitioned at school without their parents’ knowledge.
Frustrated parents say they feel betrayed by the state’s education department after they were left in the dark about their child’s new gender identity at school.
In Victoria, most high school students can request that teachers call them a different name and different pronouns at school, without permission from their parents.
One concerned dad on the Bellarine Peninsula told the Herald Sun his daughter, who has been diagnosed with autism, was called a different name and male pronouns at school for months without his knowledge, despite requesting that he be kept in the loop.
The dad, who wished to remain anonymous to protect his daughter, said it was “absolutely devastating” and a “complete betrayal of trust”.
“This is a kid who only discovered last year that Santa wasn’t real,” he said.
The Herald Sun asked the education department whether they kept a record of how many students were identifying as trans at school but they refused to provide information.
But prominent Victorian detransitioner Mel Jefferies told the Herald Sun if the government did not reconsider it’s model of care, it would be hit with “a tidal wave of legal cases”.
As a teenager, Ms Jefferies struggled with body image issues and became confused about her gender, choosing to identify as a boy following several visits to clinicians.
At age 26 she had her breasts removed under medical advice.
“It was within two weeks of having my breasts removed, I was like, I want a flat stomach, I hate my thighs or I hate my hips,” she said.
“It literally just migrated.”
Inquiry into family violence orders – Parliament of Australia
The Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs adopted an inquiry into family violence orders on 4 June 2024, following a referral from the Attorney-General, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP.
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Gender grind – by Bernard Lane – Gender Clinic News
Justice Tree, of the Federal Circuit and Family Court, made the remark yesterday in a protracted case1 where the parents are divided over a girl’s wish for cross-sex hormone treatment and where there are conflicting views about the relevance of England’s Cass report issued in April.
The court heard there were two other lengthy gender medicine cases now running, and the judge suggested it might reach the point where “the case for statutory intervention becomes overwhelming”—meaning law reform by federal parliament.
The court had the job of ensuring minors were competent to consent to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery, such as double mastectomy, given the attendant risks. However, human rights lawyers and the gender clinic of the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne argued this requirement was unnecessary and discriminated against trans-identifying patients.
In the 2017 re Kelvin case, the full Family Court agreed to wind back judicial supervision of treatment decisions involving irreversible cross-sex hormones, endorsing a claim by RCH Melbourne that advances in the medical science of gender dysphoria justified the change. Since that ruling, the court has only taken gender medicine cases where parents or doctors disagree.
In yesterday’s hearing, barrister Belle Lane, appearing for the parent opposed to hormone treatment, argued for the relevance of the Cass report to Australian clinical practice. She described it as the “most significant and comprehensive review” of gender medicine.
Ms Lane said her questions should be allowed, insofar as treatment policy related to the best interests of the child.
Justice Tree said the proposal was only to administer testosterone— “that’s all that’s proposed.”
“… with lifelong implications,” Ms Lane added.
Justice Tree said that whatever view he took of the Cass report, it would set no precedent and judges in future gender medicine cases could disagree with him.
And he said “the real problem” with re Kelvin was that it had “pretended” to be a case stated—a procedure where a court is asked to decide certain questions based on agreed facts—when the point had been determined.
Ms Lane said the full court in re Kelvin had failed to analyse the scientific evidence, and the agreed facts had included the assertion that there was a clinical consensus on gender dysphoria treatment internationally.
Justice Tree said re Kelvin would not “stand in the way” of a legal challenge arguing that cross-sex hormone treatment was “not therapeutic”.
Ms Lane suggested it might be cosmetic or experimental. Justice Tree said it either fixed a condition or it might be just some “swanning around in corporeal fancy dress”.
As for the Cass report, the judge said he would allow Ms Lane’s line of questioning “but on a tight leash”.
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Jillian Michaels says ‘mind-boggling’ laws led to move from California
The fitness personality, who was born in Los Angeles, opened up about what inspired her to move from her home state during an interview on “The Sage Steele Show” released Wednesday.
Michaels told host Sage Steele that California “got too crazy for me,” citing recent legislation spanning the decriminalization of sex work and gender-affirming care for transgender children.
“I grew up here. I’m a woman. I’m a gay woman. My mom’s a Jew. My dad’s an Arab. I have a Black kid. And believe it or not, my son is half Latin, even though he doesn’t look like it,” Michaels said. “I hold a million cards in your game of woke victimology poker. And when I leave California, maybe you’ve lost your (expletive) mind. Just maybe. Like, when you have me running from home, maybe it’s gone way too far.”
“The Biggest Loser” trainer, who now resides in Miami, went on to criticize some of California’s “mind-boggling” laws.
“We’re decriminalizing everything, which arguably I would probably be OK with, but we’re not regulating any of it,” Michaels said. “So, it’s like, OK, you’re going to decriminalize sex work, but only so women can legally loiter on the streets, not to keep them safe, not to have them pay taxes, not to make them, you know, regularly check for STDs, not to take away the pimps out of the equation.”
Regarding gender-affirming care, Michaels condemned legislation that allows children to “irreparably change their bod(ies).”
“If my son came to me and said, ‘Mom’ — or my daughter — ‘I think I’m trans.’ I’d say OK, you know, like, you want to dress this way. You want me to call you whatever the heck you want, dress, fine. Explore it. I love you. I’m cool,” Michaels said. “Do you as long as we’re safe, but we’re not changing your body until it’s fully developed. I’m sorry. Conversation’s over.”
Michaels concluded: “It’s madness to me. I can go on and on and on.”
Source: Jillian Michaels says ‘mind-boggling’ laws led to move from California
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: American College of Pediatricians statement on gender – YouTube
How the British establishment was captured by ‘sex work’ lobbyists | Nordic Model Now!
The introduction and promotion of the “sex work” and “sex worker” terminology was part of a deliberate attempt by international lobbyists for the prostitution industry to change its image from seedy and exploitative to something apparently wholesome and healthy.The success of that project is only too evident as this terminology now dominates not only the media, but also many UN bodies and agencies (e.g. WHO, UNAIDS, ILO, UNFPA, and more) and almost all the key institutions in England and Wales, including the police, universities, and the Home Office (see for example their Typologies of Modern Slavery, which uses the “sex work” terminology even when referring to child victims of sex trafficking).
This is a catastrophe because the term “sex work” implicitly positions prostitution as a normal job, which suggests that it is ethical and harmless. As a result, many marginalised girls and young women consider prostitution a viable option, typically with disastrous results, and men see buying sex as not fundamentally different from paying for a haircut. It is no surprise therefore that there has been a rapid increase in the size of the prostitution industry in recent years.
The “sex worker” term is even used for those who facilitate and profit from these activities – i.e. pimps, brothel keepers and other profiteers. This obfuscates both the reality and the power dynamics involved in the industry.
Promoters of the sex industry insist that everyone must listen to “sex workers” but many of the loudest voices claiming to be “sex workers” are not representative of the vast majority of prostituted women, may not have experienced in-person prostitution themselves, and may even be profiting from the prostitution of others.
Evidence suggests that pimps and traffickers in the UK can gain around £20,000 revenue per month for each woman they pimp. This is more than many people earn in a year. It is little wonder then that pimping and sex trafficking are rife in the UK, especially considering they are rarely prosecuted and the country’s severe economic inequality and entrenched poverty.
OnlyFans and webcamming act as a gateway to prostitution for women and as a gateway to prostitution buying for men.
We know that not all men are sex buyers. But all men know that prostitution is available to them any time they need their ego building up or someone to offload their frustration on. And at some level they know that prostitution shores up the inequality between men and women – from which they derive considerable benefit – just like the prevalence of rape and sexual harassment does.
When feminist author, Julie Bindel, was researching Switzerland’s legalised prostitution system, a woman working in a Geneva-based human rights organisation told Bindel how her work colleagues are prolific prostitution users.
Source: How the British establishment was captured by ‘sex work’ lobbyists | Nordic Model Now!
Council apologises for discriminating against trans critic, Louise Elliot, pays compensation | The Australian
Hobart City Council has apologised to a transgender rights critic, conceding it discriminated against her by blocking her from booking a venue, and it is understood will pay her compensation.