More Reasons to Home School Your Kids

Remember when the left-elite and the legacy media erupted in a chorus of sneering denunciation when then-PM Scott Morrison said, “We do not need ‘gender whisperers’ in our schools. Let kids be kids”? ‘Hateful!’ shrieked state-funded broadcaster SBS. ‘Reckless!’ screeched Australian Lawyers For Human Rights. ‘Unbelievable!’ howled the Greens.

Remember when Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan roundly attacked media who reported that Victorian schools were establishing a “school to gender clinic pipeline”? “It’s disgraceful, nonsense,” spluttered Allan.

Except…

State Education Department documents show it is departmental 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.

The situation has sparked vehement criticism from distressed parents and eminent medical and legal experts, prompting a psychiatric specialist in gender dysphoria to warn there is no scientific consensus that social transition improves mental health and wellbeing outcomes, and clear evidence that it leads many young people toward medical transition, with associated irreversible harms, such as the loss of fertility and sexual function.

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.

Teachers are also advised they must not tell parents about a child’s desire to change their gender without the permission of the child.

Care to comment, now, premier? No?

All we’re getting from the Victorian government is obfuscation and evasion.

In his response to a Victorian parliamentary question on notice put by Liberal MP Moira Deeming, who also obtained the Safe Schools correspondence, Education Minister Ben Carroll stated: “There is no formal process of declaring a student to be a mature minor, and these decisions are made at a school level.”

Mr Carroll said school staff should consider the human rights of the student and parents, as set out in Victoria’s Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities. It is not clear how this works in practice, nor how a parent’s rights could be protected if a decision was made without their knowledge.

In response to another question from Mrs Deeming in relation to how many children had been enabled to socially transition without parental consent, Mr Carroll said: “The department does not collect data on Victorian government school students who have been declared mature minors by an adult on school grounds for the purpose of affirming their gender identity at school.”

It’s all their little secret and you can’t tell no one, you hear? Classic grooming behaviour.

So, Scott Morrison was right and Jacinta Allan owes certain media an apology.

Not to mention the children and families her government’s abusive education department – which has and is still running cover for paedophiles in its ranks – are inflicting enormous and lasting damage upon.

Melbourne psychiatrist Alison Clayton, who has published peer-reviewed papers on gender dysphoria, said […] despite social transition for children and adolescents being promoted in The Royal Children’s Hospital’s guidelines as being of benefit, there was “no international evidential or clinical consensus that social transition improves mental health and wellbeing outcomes”.

“In fact, two studies undertaken by the RCH Melbourne have not found any association between social transition and improved mental health outcomes (Engel et al (2023) and Dahlgren-Allen et al (2021)). The Engel et al paper actually found that adolescents who had socially transitioned had lower quality of life scores than those who had not socially transitioned.”

Dr Clayton said there was also evidence that undertaking a full social transition in childhood led to an early medicalisation pathway, “with all the associated harms this entails”.

As for Allan’s self-serving blatherskite that “transgender kids are 15 times more likely to kill themselves” – not only is that a blatant lie, but her government’s policies are not ‘saving’ any lives at all.

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.

Data from 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.

Pediatrician Hilary Cass’s landmark independent review of gender identity services for children in Britain last year found that “the evidence does not adequately support the claim that gender-affirming treatment reduces suicide risk”.

Home school your kids.