on 24-02-2016 08:33 AM
I just read this article from Sydney Morning Herald;
An independent review announced on Tuesday will advise Education Minister Simon Birmingham on whether the program's material is "age appropriate" by mid-March.
The issue dominated discussion in Tuesday's behind-closed-doors meeting of Coalition MPs and senators.
In the meeting, Liberal senator Cory Bernardi called for the $8 million program to be defunded because he was concerned it was being used to "indoctrinate children into a Marxist agenda of cultural relativism".
Senator Bernardi added he believed the program was prematurely sexualising children, saying he was concerned young people were being instructed how to hide their breasts or **bleep**. He told Fairfax Media he had collected 9500 signatures in a petition from "concerned Australians" in less than a week.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/malcolm-turnbull-orders-review-of-safe-school-...
Does anyone know much about the framework for this programme? I thought this safe schools programme was about eradicating bullying etc.
on 02-03-2016 08:10 AM
Transgender. This is something that was never on the horizen before social media and the huge amount of support so called celebs give it.
There may have been transgender people before but I never heard about it growing up. There has been a lot of trannies but most of those don't go for the snip.
There's a study that says many who do get the op suicide years later.
I don't think this material should be taught in schools at all. And 7 year olds deciding they want to be girls and parents supporting it is wrong. That's my opinion and I suppose many will object to it and call me names.
This topic has been hijacked by the ultra left wing Queer propaganda articles and a self confessed Marxist radical.
on 02-03-2016 09:09 AM
on 02-03-2016 09:15 AM
on 02-03-2016 09:20 AM
on 02-03-2016 09:27 AM
on 02-03-2016 10:31 AM
There is a more recent study, it was an interview on the ABC new at noon but I don't have the information. But' the research showed high rates of suicide after the op.
on 02-03-2016 01:02 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUILgvVJS1s
Corey Bernadi talking on sky news.
For those who believe the programme is exclusively about an anti-bullying agenda. Please google Roz Ward co-founder of this programme. Ms Ward spoke at a marxism conference last year and has been quoted as saying the following;
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=18033
Marxist doctrine says that the capitalist class (the wealthy owners of capital) has used all the main institutions of society – government, the courts, the churches and the culture – to oppress, subjugate and economically exploit the working class.
Ward says that as part of this process of exploitation, capitalists have imposed cultural and moral norms around sex, marriage and the natural family that inhibit sexual freedom.
“To smooth the operation of capitalism the ruling class has benefited, and continues to benefit, from oppressing our bodies, our relationships, sexuality and gender identities alongside sexism, homophobia and transphobia.
“Both serve to break the spirits of ordinary people, to consume our thoughts, to make us accept the status quo and for us to keep living or aspiring to live, or feel like we should live, in small social units and families where we must reproduce and take responsibility for those people in those units,” she said.
Ward argues that this capitalist social and cultural construct extends to every aspect of our society:
“Apart from social stigma and discrimination, almost every single structure in society is set up to accommodate only two possible genders, male or female.
“Everything from the toilets we use, the school uniforms, changing rooms, all official documents, passports, the process is that you go through airports, everything is divided into these two limited gender options.”
“Marxism offers both the hope and the strategy needed to create a world where human sexuality, gender and how we relate to our bodies can blossom in extraordinarily new and amazing ways that we can only try to imagine today, because Marxism has a theory of social change,” Ward says.
To this end, Ward lauds policies of sexual liberation introduced by the Soviet Union after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. This included the introduction of “gender neutral language … something that transgender advocates today see as the key demand to the transgender and other advocacy movements.
“They [the Soviets] also removed the fixed age of consent…”
Echoing this classical Marxist doctrine, Ward paraphrases gay academic Dennis Altman, saying that
“the homosexual cannot win liberation without a general sexual liberation.” In Marxist parlance, this means that LGBT people can truly be liberated only when all people of all sexual orientations and gender identities have open sexual licence after being liberated from capitalist-imposed conventional morality or biology.
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on 02-03-2016 01:31 PM
on 02-03-2016 01:55 PM
At Redwood Heights Elementary, Oakland last year a group called Gender Spectrum was employed to teach Children in grade 1 and 2 a programme which contained such concepts as; you can be a boy or a girl or both or neither..., it's okay for boys to wear fingernail polish, that some dolphins have both boy and girl parts and that clownfish can switch genders, and that same diversity applies to people too...
This programme was also promoted with the anti-bullying slogan...
on 02-03-2016 02:06 PM
@djilukjilly wrote:
There's a study that says many who do get the op suicide years later.
Probably because society still shuns them, people make fun of them, they find they have limited employment opportunities. Many do not get proper education because they found school intolerable due to bullying and leave as soon as they can. The op is not a magic wand, most are quite obviously masculine. If the op is done before or soon after puberty the results are better. It is a very difficult situation to be in as a person feeling they are transgender, as well for parents of these kids. Acceptance in society would make their life just the tiny bit easier.
As far s such things as loos go; FGS! Just make special room with boys' urinals, and then unisex cubicals. Anyway, that is if school does have a transgender kids, most do not.