Transgender Rights Have Become A Political Flashpoint In Australia Over The Past Three Years, Most Recently With Moira Deeming Expelled From The Victorian Liberal Party And Coalition Frontbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price vowing to push back against the transgender movementand its impact on children.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has encouraged Senator Price and Tasmanian senator Claire Chandler to express their views on transgender issues, while Ms Deeming has claimed Victorian Liberals can’t win in the state unless they adopt Mr Dutton’s “strong leadership” advancing conservative values.
Former Liberal Party candidate Katherine Deves sparked a firestorm during the 2022 federal election campaign for her outspoken views on trans women participating in women’s sport, including comments for which she later apologised.
However, senior Labor figures believe Mr Dutton is more likely than any of his recent predecessors to exploit trans issues, with Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign against trans inclusion and gender-affirming medical treatment for children highlighting the potential for winning votes from across the political spectrum.
Republicans spent more than $80m in the last three months alone on advertising campaigns hammering Democrat politicians — mostly in Senate races — over their support for transgender rights.
[Ed: Lets hope the Labor Party sees sense well before the Federal Election and distances itself from the destructive trans juggernaut before it is too late.]
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Good to see the Politics of sex vs gender identity explored in Australia’s mainstream media. Disappointing it took a sports journalist to identify transgenderism as a war on women and girls.
Halting the agenda of transsexual rights is my single issue vote decider. I went from a Greens supporter of 30 years up until 2018 and have voted for Pauline Hanson or the most conservative leaning politicians ever since.
Hell hath no fury like a woman who got told she doesn’t exist (and that I’m a hateful, bigotted nazi if I refuse to be polite about it)