Out in the open – by Bernard Lane – Gender Clinic News
For the first time, it has been officially admitted that an Australian children’s hospital is referring patients to the private sector for transgender surgery such as removal of a girl’s healthy breasts.
The public gender clinic of the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne, which takes gender-distressed patients up to age 16, “may refer adolescents to a private specialist clinician to consider the appropriateness and need for surgery,” Mary-Anne Thomas, Minister for Health in the state of Victoria, said.1
Ms Thomas, who declares herself a proud feminist with “a passion for public policy”, was answering the latest in a string of formal questions on notice about the RCH gender clinic from Independent Liberal Party parliamentarian Moira Deeming.
“I told my then psychiatrist I wanted to break my nose with a hammer and that I wanted to cut off my breasts. One of these comments carried more weight. My body dysmorphic disorder never faded but my trans identity did.”—Melbourne detransitioner Mel Jefferies, who regrets her decision as a young woman to undergo a trans mastectomy, Twitter, 19 August 2024
Source: Out in the open – by Bernard Lane – Gender Clinic News
Breaking news: Brazil declares domestic violence an exception to repatriation under the Hague Convention – the hague papers
The Brazilian Federal Government has officially declared domestic violence an exception to repatriation under the 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction.
According to the Presidential statement, domestic violence can be included in the Article 13b exception considering it is “a grave risk of danger to the child, even if the child is not the direct victim of the violence”.
The document highlights that claimants must provide “proof of domestic violence committed against the parent” and/or the children, which means that allegations only are not enough to prevent repatriation.
In accord with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, the Government has however demonstrated awareness of the struggles of victims to prove abuse in private situations. Therefore it also states that promptness shall not be a priority to foster “restitution without a reasonable probationary delay when there is suspicion of domestic violence”.
Gender-affirming care through the lens of abnormal illness behaviour and abnormal treatment behaviour – Patrick Clarke, Andrew J Amos, 2024
Conclusions
Abnormal illness behaviours driven by the reinforcing contingencies of gender-affirming care may explain, in part, the increasing number and changing demographics of gender dysphoria, as well as the increasing incidence of desistance and detransition. The under-diagnosis and under-treatment of mental health disorders by clinicians treating these patients are examples of abnormal treatment behaviours. Uncritical affirmation of patient reported gender identity appears likely to conceal unconscious motivations of some patients and clinicians, increasing the risks of harm to both.
NSW MP charged with child sex offences, quits parliament | MP
NSW MP for Pittwater Rory Amon has quit parliament hours after being charged with child sex offences.
Amon was charged with five counts of having sexual intercourse with a child between the ages of 10 and 14 after he was arrested at Manly police station at 6am on Friday.
The 35-year-old was also charged with two counts of indecent assault of a person under 16, two counts of attempted sexual intercourse with a child between the ages of 10 and 14, and committing an act of indecency with a person under 16.
The charges relate to the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old boy at an address in Mona Vale over a two-month period in 2017.
Amon denies the allegations and said he intends to fight the charges in court.
He replaced former planning minister Rob Stokes as MP for Pittwater at the March 2023 election, but his Liberal Party preselection was highly controversial.
Stokes wanted a woman to replace him in the blue ribbon seat and lobbied members of the party’s state executive to not back Amon.
At the same time, Liberal-turned-independent Gareth Ward, who was suspended from parliament as he faced sexual and indecent assault charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty, called state executive members in support of Amon.
Despite the intervention of Perrottet and Stokes, Amon’s endorsement was passed by one vote and he became the preselected candidate.
Ward was also suspended from the parliament, which prevented him from attending the parliamentary precinct, although that suspension did not continue after he successfully retained Kiama.
According to his website, Amon grew up on the northern beaches and, before his career in politics, worked as a family lawyer.
Source: 12ft
Government backflips on LGBT census question after backlash | SMH
The government has backflipped on adding a question about sexuality to the census after six Labor MPs declared their party had got it wrong and Coalition MPs said fears of a culture war were unfounded.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday morning there would be one question about sexuality in the census if testing by the Australian Bureau of Statistics was successful.
“We’ve been talking with the Australian Bureau statistics, and they’re going to test for a new question, one question about sexuality, sexual preference,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The government had scrapped plans for a question on that topic just a week ago. But Albanese did not say he would revive another scrapped question on gender identity.
Source: 12ft
Position Paper on Definition of Women by UN Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls
Background: In March 2024, I made an application to submit an amicus brief in the case of Roxanne Tickle versus Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd & Anor (NSD1148/22). I was not granted leave to intervene by the Federal Court of Australia on grounds that the submission was made late. I was asked instead to provide input to the Australian Human Rights Commission, which is intervening in this case, on the meaning of the word “woman” in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and Girls (CEDAW) by the 18th of March, which I havedone. I conveyed my expectation that given my application, the Australian Human Rights Commissioner would bring my submission to the attention of the Australian Federal Court and other parties. At the time of sending my submission to the Commissioner, I had copied the respondents’ solicitor on the communication, acknowledging their assistance to date in navigating the Australian federal legal system up to that point.. The below position maintains the core message of the input sent to the Commissioner, while expanding some of the supporting arguments.
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States have an obligation to guarantee non-discrimination in the enjoyment of human rights, including based on sex (i.e. biological sex). Articles 2 and 3 of the ICCPR mandates States Parties to take all steps necessary, including the prohibition of discrimination on the ground of sex, putting an end to discriminatory actions, both in the public and the private sector which impair the equal enjoyment of rights by women.
Based on the above analysis of relevant international law, it is clear that sex and gender are two different concepts. However, international law does not permit any derogation to the prohibition of discrimination against women based on sex. Where tension may arise between the right to non-discrimination based on sex and non-discrimination based on gender or gender identity, international human rights law does not endorse an interpretation that allows either for derogations from the obligation to ensure non-discrimination based on sex or the subordination of this obligation not to discriminate based on sex to other rights.
Source: position-paper-on-definition-of-women-in-CEDAW-04.04.2024-final79.pdf
Resignation letter from a John Lewis Partner | Glinner
I’m grateful to Lesley for granting permission to publish her resignation letter. For over 70 years, John Lewis has had a unique ownership structure in which staff members collectively own the business through a trust. However, it now seems that trans activists within the company are compromising the safety of female staff and customers, and many partners are not happy.
My name is Lesley Pickup. I am employed as a Selling Partner on the first floor in your Cheadle Branch.
Married, male colleagues, with full male genitalia, not transitioning to female, who live as husbands at home but choose to dress as women at work, assuming female names, and expecting full access to toilettes and locker rooms which were previously female-only employee safe spaces. This regardless and without one moment of thought or consideration for any negative effects and consequences on their female colleagues.
Female colleagues who I know to be triggered, caused anxiety and mental distress by these men’s presence in previously safe female spaces.
Female colleagues who live in fear of dismissal if they speak out. So just like home they put up and shut up and acquiesce to the demands of men.
Their oppressive home lives being replicated at work.
Just like home they don’t matter because JOHN LEWIS has never sought their INPUT or CONSENT for this intrusion into their safe spaces.
Nor has JOHN LEWIS ever sought the CONSENT of its female employees whose faith forbids them from being in such close intimate spaces with men who they are not related to or married to. It’s one thing being on the shop floor surrounded by customers and colleagues its quite another to be in a locker room or toilette.
Likewise, JOHN LEWIS does not inform nor seek the CONSENT of the parents and carers of young female work experience students below 18 YOA to permit their daughters to be in female-safe spaces with men with full male genitalia. I can find no written available safeguarding policy acknowledging John Lewis’s duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of these young female students, or any students for that matter. There is no commitment to ensure safeguarding practises reflect statutory responsibilities, government guidance and are in line with Ofsted requirements. A Policy which should recognise that the welfare of young female students is paramount in all circumstances which includes female safe spaces.
Dismissively, John Lewis state female employees can use the disabled toilette and be provided with a small locker for a purse and car keys away from the female changing rooms. Nowhere to hang their coats up or deposit wet umbrellas etc and only the disabled loo to change in which quite rightly they can only use after their disabled colleagues. Why is it that your female employees have to change their behaviour to concede to the demands of their male colleagues? You instruct them to discuss this matter with their manager. Managers who have no authority and dare not challenge the company line.
Therefore, please accept my resignation from John Lewis with effect from Wednesday 07 August 2024. I will not be serving out my two weeks’ notice as I am not prepared to set foot in an establishment, either as an employee or a customer, that chooses to treat its female members of staff with such disregard when it comes to their safe spaces, placing the demands of men above all else.
Labor says sexuality questions dumped from census to avoid ‘divisive’ debates | Australian politics | The Guardian
The acting prime minister, Richard Marles, says the government decided not to add questions on sexuality to the 2026 census to avoid “divisive” community debates.
Marles said the government had opted to take the existing set of questions to the next census rather than adding five new topics – including sexuality – as had been proposed, out of concern for social cohesion.
Until this week, the government had been expected to add questions on whether respondents had changed living locations in the previous 12 months and why, plus questions on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural identity, gender – including variations of sex characteristics – and sexual orientation.
The extra topics were the result of community consultations last year and were set to be part of a test program ahead of a final government decision. But the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) confirmed this week it received notice on Friday last week the extra topics would not be included.
[Ed: I suspect it is ‘gender identity’ rather than sexuality that is the divisive issue.]
Women beaten with their own rights. – by Edie Wyatt
A decision in the Federal Court last Friday confirmed a shocking reality that many of us already knew; it is now illegal for women to publicly make a single sex space in Australia, under the current operation of the Sex Discrimination Act (1984) (SDA). The SDA is no longer fit for purpose, or rather, its purpose is now to threaten women into submission.
The destruction of the sex category in which women hold civil rights is not “unintentional consequences” of gender identity protections. The legislation that Justice Bromwich ruled on in the Federal Court in the Tickle V Giggle case is the SDA operating exactly as it is intended to operate by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), who have been strategically removing the ovaries from the SDA for decades.
The SDA originally recognised that the female body had a reproductive path that placed women and girls at a structural disadvantage in society. In the 40 years since its inception, the SDA has been the victim, like so many women and girls, of unbridled molestation.
The SDA, has been altered 56 times since 1984, often at the instigation of the Australian Human Rights Commission who administer the Act, and most famously by the Gillard Labor government who removed the definitions of “man” and “woman” from the SDA in 2013.
To be fair, Gillard may not have predicted the SDA would be used in tandem with “self ID” legislation, and that this pairing would be accepted by the Federal Court. Anyone who has been studying this issue as long as I have will know that this is absolutely the intention of those who mould modern government policy.
The way Bromwich disregarded concerns for the constitutional validity of gender identity legislation and the international human rights concerns it raises, is a clear indication of how the legal establishment in Australia have been authors and enablers in the removal of women as a sex class.
Tickle was funded by the Grata Fund, which is listed as a legal aid charity, who fund social justice causes by donors who give “strategic gifts”. The Grata Fund took this case specifically to cement the pairing of gender identity with self ID in the law.
The Australian Human Rights commission has destroyed the SDA and it must be disbanded. Gillard’s Amendments to the SDA in 2013 must be repealed, as should all mention of gender identity in the SDA.
Source: (4) Women beaten with their own rights. – by Edie Wyatt