Just five months
after Australian voters signalled their widespread acceptance of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and
Intersex (LGBTI) members of the community by voting for
the introduction of same sex marriage, a number people in the Victorian Liberal Party want to turn
back the clock in the name of sheer bigotry.
The
Age, 14 April
2018:
A motion by a conservative
Liberal branch linked to Federal MP Kevin Andrews has called for state
legislation allowing health practitioners “to offer counselling out of same sex
attraction or gender transitioning to patients who request it''.
With seven months before
the Victorian election, it also urges Mr Guy to advocate for laws ensuring
“parents and young people are all given full information about the
psychological harms of social, medical and surgical gender transitioning”.
It further states that
any claims supporting prescribing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and
gender re-assignment surgery as safe and reversible, are in fact "both
false and harmful".
The motion was drafted
by the Victorian Liberal Party’s Menzies-Warrandyte branch and will be one of
dozens debated when rank-and-file delegates meet on April 28 and 29 for the
party’s annual state council meeting….
Other motions to be
debated at state council include:
* Calls for the
Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act to re-insert "man" and
"woman" in the place of "sexual orientation" and
"gender identity". The aim is that a person will define their gender
as either male or female, according to their biological and reproductive
function.
* Calls to ban the Safe
Schools program from Victorian schools and any other curriculum teaching a
person's gender may be different from their biological sex or that people can
transition.
On 16 April 2018 it was reported that the 'gay conversion therapy' motion along with those other nasty motions were removed from the agenda for the Liberal's annual state council meeting - apparently the party's state president didn't like the negative publicity these motions was gathering ahead of the November 2018 Victorian state election.
On 16 April 2018 it was reported that the 'gay conversion therapy' motion along with those other nasty motions were removed from the agenda for the Liberal's annual state council meeting - apparently the party's state president didn't like the negative publicity these motions was gathering ahead of the November 2018 Victorian state election.
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