Have a look at the screenshot below from the Tasmanian Education Department page.
Apparently, they had a fabulous time at the Pride Parade.They say they are all for ‘creating a safe and supportive environment for children, young people and their families’ but, as we now know, this form of words is code for promoting gender ideology in schools, teaching children that they might be born in the wrong body, teaching children that if they were born in the wrong body they should transition, encouraging girls to bind their breasts, ignoring girls who are uncomfortable with boys in their toilets or sports, teaching age inappropriate sex education etc etc. So, forgive us if we don’t share the department’s enthusiasm for the Pride event.
Having said that let’s be clear Women Speak Tasmania is NOT opposed to trans or gay people living in our society and we certainly do not hate them. Many of our members were involved in campaigns for marriage equality. What we are opposed to is the specific aspects of the sex-discrimination and sex self-ID laws that destroy the right of women to have women only spaces, the modification of language to suit the trans agenda with the introduction of words such as uterus haver, birthing parent etc and the reckless adoption of the gender affirmation model of care which sends children down the trans path at an age that is far to young to make serious life-changing decisions.
What we find very galling is the way the LGBTQI community, while claiming to be so loving and kind, demonstrate quite the opposite behaviour when dealing with anyone who wants to raise the issues mentioned above. They immediately resort to abusive language such as hateful, bigot or transphobic. They refuse to listen to the concerns of women or engage in meaningful discussion preferring to ignore and silence us all the while claiming to be the ones who are oppressed even though laws have been changed to suit them all over Australia and they are powerful enough to chill the public discourse on just about every available platform.
So, while we hold no ill-will whatsoever towards the trans community, we are not pleased to see the Tasmanian Education getting so involved in Pride celebrations as this indicates that the issues we are concerned about will continue to be sidelined and harm will contine to be done. We don’t feel inclined to wave flags and cheer the sterilization of children, the loss of their sexual function or the damage to their health from wrong sex hormones. Neither do we want to cheer on the presence of TIMs ( trans identified males) in women’s domestic violence shelters, toilets and sports or the destruction of female words in our language.
Until women regain the right to dignity and safety and children are properly protected we will not be celebrating Pride day, week or month and we find it offensive to see our Education Department being so cruel as to ignore one group in our society while enthusiastically celebrating another group that is trampling on the rights of others. That’s NOT kind OR inclusive!
by Emma Shaw