The situation in Australia with regard to gender ideology is grim. Until recently there has been virtually no discussion or public dissent. The “trans kids” narrative has been uniformly celebrated by the media, schools, governments and organisations. I often sadly think of Australia (and our cousins in New Zealand), as being “the Canada of the southern hemisphere” Tragic and disturbing stories of the effects on young people as a result of this are beginning to emerge. For example, the story of Jude’s daughter can be listened to here
Brilliant, and so well written. I saved this post until I had the time to give it my full attention and follow (some of!) the links. It was time well spent. I’ll get to all of the links eventually!
This is a religious crusade to the people who believe in this twisted gender ideology. They sincerely believe that they are doing the right thing, are "on the right side of history", and that anyone who opposes them and their views are hateful bigots who are literally causing the death of "trans kids".
It is impossible to change their views, because as I mentioned above, this is a religious crusade for them, and for them to recognize reality would be akin to a lifelong evangelical Christian or devout Muslim to totally reject their faith. It simply isn't going to happen.
Which leads me to the next obvious, but difficult statement. When your opponents are religious zealots hellbent on getting their way, you don't play nice with them. The normal means of vigorous debate in a polite political context simply do not work. Would it have been a fruitful exercise to have a civilized debate with ISIS? Of course not, it is obvious on its face that having a polite discussion about the merits or lack thereof of establishing a radical Islamic Caliphate would have never dissuaded their members from embarking on a quest to establish their Caliphate.
The only tactics that are effective when dealing with religious zealots on a crusade are violent ones. Look how effectively the gender ideologues have weaponized fear in furtherance of their goals. Anyone who voices even mild dissent from their gender orthodoxy is cancelled, with real world consequences such as loss of employment, removal from universities, along with the litany of violent threats that are always leveled at dissenters in such cases.
In normal political disputes with an opponent who is amenable to reason, one can rely on governmental bodies and the judiciary to mediate the dispute in a fair and even-handed manner. But in this instance, the gender ideologues have captured and corrupted government and the judiciary across the Anglophone world. Thus, the normal mechanisms of political dispute are rendered totally ineffective. Moreover, since this is akin to a religious crusade, the gender ideologues are decidedly not amenable to reason, and never will be. They have decided that their position is the only morally correct one, and will use (and indeed have used) any weapon at their disposal to compel all of society to believe as they believe, or at least perform lip-service to their belief as they inflict their harmful policy prescriptions on all of society.
The sad truth is that in order to effectively combat the gender ideologues and their nonsensical religion, violent means are necessary. Criminalizing their behavior would be an obvious means to that end, but the aforementioned capture of government and the judiciary makes that all but impossible. I am not advocating any specific violent action, but much as was the case with ISIS, violence is the only solution when dealing with a group that uses violent means on their own behalf to establish their own twisted vision of what society should be.
If you take the time to investigate, the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists (NAPP) has produced a respectful, contemporary, compassionate, cautious, caring and conventional approach to the assessment and treatment of gender dysphoria in children and young people. Have a look at it at:
Thank you, thank you, thank you.... As a left-leaning, ABC consuming, parent of an ASD ROGD kid, I feel like I've been shouting into the abyss that you so eloquently describe here.
I've recently started writing/texting the ABC every time I experience another celebratory story about trans kids... Despite being a left-leaning voter who is in a different state from Kath Deves' electorate, I messaged her to thank her for speaking out. And I thank you for this extensive list of resources... I'll be adding them to my arsenal of information.
As one of the co-founders of LGB Alliance Australia I left to be more focused on the fight against Gender Identity Ideology, it's a small but growing group that's produced:
- https://lostintransition.org, a collaboration of psychiatrists, psychologists and psychoanalysts, the submission sent to the Australian Psychologist Society was approved by Phillip Morris of NAAP, Roberto DiAngelo of SEGM, Dr Michael Biggs etc.
A supporting facebook group of health professionals can be found "Watchful Waiting Australia"
- https://indefenceofchildren.org collecting and documenting the stories of parents and teachers to the fact that the State schools are being used as vehicles for social and medical transitioning of children, that parents have no parental rights when it comes to gender identity ideology, that the schools can call our kids 'mature minors' and the kids get to decided under 16 to transition. Plus the hyper sexualised school curricula.
Plus formed several resource groups collecting data on ACON's pride in diversity schemes, that was based on Stonewall UK's diversity champions.
I spoke at United Nations last year in march, copy of the talk on the business model of youth transitioning is here: https://youtu.be/WH1hV0DkA6U , I'm the web witch for https://respectmysexaustralia.org, and a number of websites supporting the movement.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the extraordinary recount of the situation in Australia. I will not only share Dr Wilson letter but also your post which is one of the best summary i have seen so far and source of evidence. There is hope. Thank you again.
I asked a friend who is a Doctor in Adelaide, Australia what were her thoughts on gender identity ideology and she replied in length about a gendered soul that must be respected. To say I was bereft is an understatement. I've been trying to get the message out to friends over there for years, only two have given me the time, listened and care. The brainwashing is deep. Thank you so much for this article. It is utterly devastating what is happening over there.
Heartbreaking and hopeful. The US, where I am, is in lockstep with Australia. The public media is in the same situation — wholly unbalanced. As someone who was almost addicted to public radio and liberal mainstream media during the Trump years, I feel foolish for having so slavishly trusted everything I consumed. This is the fallout — that most people, believing good intent, have altogether stopped questioning anything, even if on face value it sounds absurd. As a layperson, albeit one with a child sucked down into the gender hell-hole, I feel like I could destroy any argument in favor of medicalizing young people… if that discussion were allowed. Never in my 61 years was I afraid to discuss a medical topic — just DISCUSS it — for fear of losing my employment or my child. Parents without a child in this are largely unmotivated to dig deeper.
Those now daring to speak out do give me hope. It will take a tsunami of opposing voices and young people speaking up about the harm GI has caused them, but I have to believe that it will happen because this is not sustainable on any level, including how much grief so many parents can possibly bear.
Thank you. It's all horrid, and I support those who are still fighting for the truth to be told. They are in my prayers.
A year ago I asked my long-time doctor what protocol she's to use with trans identifying youth. She said that she has been directed to "confirm, prescribe and, not to follow up." I asked her why I should trust her medical group- affiliated with a major American university- with any of my medical concerns if they can't even get gender correct?
There's the evidence and then somewhere else is AUSPATH. Not clear why people should be listening to this self appointed group, AUSPATH, if they aren't following medical evidence!
Brilliant, and so well written. I saved this post until I had the time to give it my full attention and follow (some of!) the links. It was time well spent. I’ll get to all of the links eventually!
Fantastic article. Let's go! I will distribute this article and Dr Wilson's to as many doctors as I can.
Could the rush to affirmation, medicalization, blockers be considered conversion therapy just in the other direction?
There is hope. C'mon, Australia!!!!
Thank you for the hope that we can change direction.
This is a religious crusade to the people who believe in this twisted gender ideology. They sincerely believe that they are doing the right thing, are "on the right side of history", and that anyone who opposes them and their views are hateful bigots who are literally causing the death of "trans kids".
It is impossible to change their views, because as I mentioned above, this is a religious crusade for them, and for them to recognize reality would be akin to a lifelong evangelical Christian or devout Muslim to totally reject their faith. It simply isn't going to happen.
Which leads me to the next obvious, but difficult statement. When your opponents are religious zealots hellbent on getting their way, you don't play nice with them. The normal means of vigorous debate in a polite political context simply do not work. Would it have been a fruitful exercise to have a civilized debate with ISIS? Of course not, it is obvious on its face that having a polite discussion about the merits or lack thereof of establishing a radical Islamic Caliphate would have never dissuaded their members from embarking on a quest to establish their Caliphate.
The only tactics that are effective when dealing with religious zealots on a crusade are violent ones. Look how effectively the gender ideologues have weaponized fear in furtherance of their goals. Anyone who voices even mild dissent from their gender orthodoxy is cancelled, with real world consequences such as loss of employment, removal from universities, along with the litany of violent threats that are always leveled at dissenters in such cases.
In normal political disputes with an opponent who is amenable to reason, one can rely on governmental bodies and the judiciary to mediate the dispute in a fair and even-handed manner. But in this instance, the gender ideologues have captured and corrupted government and the judiciary across the Anglophone world. Thus, the normal mechanisms of political dispute are rendered totally ineffective. Moreover, since this is akin to a religious crusade, the gender ideologues are decidedly not amenable to reason, and never will be. They have decided that their position is the only morally correct one, and will use (and indeed have used) any weapon at their disposal to compel all of society to believe as they believe, or at least perform lip-service to their belief as they inflict their harmful policy prescriptions on all of society.
The sad truth is that in order to effectively combat the gender ideologues and their nonsensical religion, violent means are necessary. Criminalizing their behavior would be an obvious means to that end, but the aforementioned capture of government and the judiciary makes that all but impossible. I am not advocating any specific violent action, but much as was the case with ISIS, violence is the only solution when dealing with a group that uses violent means on their own behalf to establish their own twisted vision of what society should be.
Many thanks
Thank you for putting together such a detailed chronology specific to Australia! 💗
If you take the time to investigate, the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists (NAPP) has produced a respectful, contemporary, compassionate, cautious, caring and conventional approach to the assessment and treatment of gender dysphoria in children and young people. Have a look at it at:
https://napp.org.au/2022/03/managing-gender-dysphoria-incongruence-in-young-people-a-guide-for-health-practitioners-2/
Thank you, thank you, thank you.... As a left-leaning, ABC consuming, parent of an ASD ROGD kid, I feel like I've been shouting into the abyss that you so eloquently describe here.
I've recently started writing/texting the ABC every time I experience another celebratory story about trans kids... Despite being a left-leaning voter who is in a different state from Kath Deves' electorate, I messaged her to thank her for speaking out. And I thank you for this extensive list of resources... I'll be adding them to my arsenal of information.
You need to add LGB Defence (https://lgbdefence.org) to the list of groups.
As one of the co-founders of LGB Alliance Australia I left to be more focused on the fight against Gender Identity Ideology, it's a small but growing group that's produced:
- https://lostintransition.org, a collaboration of psychiatrists, psychologists and psychoanalysts, the submission sent to the Australian Psychologist Society was approved by Phillip Morris of NAAP, Roberto DiAngelo of SEGM, Dr Michael Biggs etc.
A supporting facebook group of health professionals can be found "Watchful Waiting Australia"
- https://lostwomensrights.com collecting and listing the rights lost of women in Australia,
- https://indefenceofchildren.org collecting and documenting the stories of parents and teachers to the fact that the State schools are being used as vehicles for social and medical transitioning of children, that parents have no parental rights when it comes to gender identity ideology, that the schools can call our kids 'mature minors' and the kids get to decided under 16 to transition. Plus the hyper sexualised school curricula.
Plus formed several resource groups collecting data on ACON's pride in diversity schemes, that was based on Stonewall UK's diversity champions.
I spoke at United Nations last year in march, copy of the talk on the business model of youth transitioning is here: https://youtu.be/WH1hV0DkA6U , I'm the web witch for https://respectmysexaustralia.org, and a number of websites supporting the movement.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the extraordinary recount of the situation in Australia. I will not only share Dr Wilson letter but also your post which is one of the best summary i have seen so far and source of evidence. There is hope. Thank you again.
I asked a friend who is a Doctor in Adelaide, Australia what were her thoughts on gender identity ideology and she replied in length about a gendered soul that must be respected. To say I was bereft is an understatement. I've been trying to get the message out to friends over there for years, only two have given me the time, listened and care. The brainwashing is deep. Thank you so much for this article. It is utterly devastating what is happening over there.
Heartbreaking and hopeful. The US, where I am, is in lockstep with Australia. The public media is in the same situation — wholly unbalanced. As someone who was almost addicted to public radio and liberal mainstream media during the Trump years, I feel foolish for having so slavishly trusted everything I consumed. This is the fallout — that most people, believing good intent, have altogether stopped questioning anything, even if on face value it sounds absurd. As a layperson, albeit one with a child sucked down into the gender hell-hole, I feel like I could destroy any argument in favor of medicalizing young people… if that discussion were allowed. Never in my 61 years was I afraid to discuss a medical topic — just DISCUSS it — for fear of losing my employment or my child. Parents without a child in this are largely unmotivated to dig deeper.
Those now daring to speak out do give me hope. It will take a tsunami of opposing voices and young people speaking up about the harm GI has caused them, but I have to believe that it will happen because this is not sustainable on any level, including how much grief so many parents can possibly bear.
Thank you. It's all horrid, and I support those who are still fighting for the truth to be told. They are in my prayers.
A year ago I asked my long-time doctor what protocol she's to use with trans identifying youth. She said that she has been directed to "confirm, prescribe and, not to follow up." I asked her why I should trust her medical group- affiliated with a major American university- with any of my medical concerns if they can't even get gender correct?
Her response, "that's a valid question."
Fantastic summary! Thank you!
There is a great comparison of AUSPATH's guidelines with the actual evidence in this article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2070565
There's the evidence and then somewhere else is AUSPATH. Not clear why people should be listening to this self appointed group, AUSPATH, if they aren't following medical evidence!