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As reported in Good Oil yesterday, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has been caught out on ‘gender whisperers’ in the state’s schools. Not only did Allan get caught out peddling fake ‘suicide’ claims about ‘gender diverse’ children, she also got caught out in her denials that there is a ‘schools-to-clinic’ pipeline operating in Victoria. In fact, as it’s emerged, Victorian Education departmental policy is to secretly encourage children to ‘socially transition’, without their parents’ knowledge or consent. As psychiatrist and specialist in the field Alison Clayton pointed out, the evidence shows that childhood ‘social transition’ leads to a medicalisation pathway, “with all the associated harms this entails”.
Well, that sure sounds like a schools-to-clinic pipeline to me.
So, what’s a transactivist left-wing politician to do, when caught out peddling big, fat porkies? Go on the indignant attack, of course.
Jacinta Allan has accused parents of gender distressed children, medical and legal experts and the Australian of “reckless, dangerous commentary” after being asked whether she is comfortable with children in Victorian schools being enabled to socially transition without their parents’ knowledge or consent.
The Australian revealed on Monday that it is Victorian Education Department policy for teachers and other school staff to use the concept of “mature minor” consent to enable children to socially transition in instances where their parents are deemed unsupportive.
Not only are there no guidelines in the departmental policy regarding what constitutes an “unsupportive” parent, there is also no requirement for staff to document or account for this life-altering decision, nor for them to consult medical practitioners.
Psychiatrists and law professors have condemned this policy. University of Queensland emeritus professor of law Patrick Parkinson described the policy as “grossly unethical”. Schools, he said, are “not qualified at all” to make such decisions and that future negligence suits are likely from children harmed by secret transitions.
First, Allan tried to dodge the question.
Asked whether she was comfortable with Victorian children being enabled to socially transition at school, without their parents’ knowledge or consent, and without any safeguards in place to ensure that the child and responsible teacher are aware of the consequences and serious risks that the decision involves, the premier asked whether the Australian was “giving an example or providing a proposition.”
Then tried high dudgeon.
Asked to respond to comments from a spokeswoman from Parents of Adolescents with Gender Distress – which represents more than 50 parents of children who have sought to change their gender – that mature minor consent is being enacted “indiscriminately” in Victorian schools, Ms Allan called for respect in dealing with sensitive issues […]
“We should come to all of these debates and discussions in a responsible way, one that does not put reckless misinformation into the public debate, that causes harm,” the premier said.
That’s rich, coming from the politician who lied through her teeth about so-called ‘trans suicides’. In fact, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare website states “there are … no reliable national data on rates of suicide and self-harm among LGBTIQ+ communities in Australia”. As well, the world’s largest gender clinic, Britain’s Tavistock Clinic, shows that rates of suicide among youth referred to the clinic were slightly higher than the general population, and the same among those receiving treatment and those who were not.
So, naturally, she switched to attack – it’s everyone else who’s wrong.
Told that the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare had found that there are currently no reliable statistics on rates of suicide and self-harm among LGBTIQ+ communities, Ms Allan said: “I’m not going to engage with you in a debate about the different, what is the different levels of the rate of suicide amongst transgender kids. I’m just not.”
La-la-la-la, she can’t hear you.
Liberal MP Moira Deeming – who made the Freedom of Information requests and put the questions on notice to Education Minister and Deputy Premier Ben Carroll included in Monday’s report – said the premier’s “disgraceful conduct” was “typical of Labor.”
“First, it’s the embarrassing denial it’s even happening, even though my FOIs and her own deputy confirmed it to me, then it’s onto the personal attacks toward anyone who calls them out, including journalists, clinicians, other MPs and even the parents and children damaged by their policies,” Mrs Deeming said.
“Then it’s the revolting, triumphal exploitation of quack teen suicide stats. If the premier and Labor truly cared about youth suicide rates they would have already familiarised themselves with the Werther Effect.”
This is the well-established phenomenon that, the more you tell certain groups about suicide, the more likely they are to copy-cat act it out. This is why media are heavily restricted in reporting on celebrity suicides.
If anybody’s likely to drive vulnerable children to suicide, it’s disgusting, demented activists like the Victorian premier.
