Tassie’s Battle of the Billboards Heats Up

For a mob who spend so much time bleating about “tolerance”, “acceptance”, and “love”, the trans lobby sure are a violently intolerant lot. When Kellie-Jay Keen tried to speak in Hobart, it was little more than a warm-up for the lynch mob in Auckland a few days later.

Not even billboards can escape the zealous intolerance of the cocks-in-frocks and their fanciers.

A war of words between groups at the opposite ends of the transgender debate has escalated, with both groups launching campaigns to fund billboards promoting their views on the issue across the state.

LGB Tasmania, which opposes medical transitions for people under the age of 18, claimed it has booked another billboard in the Launceston area for July, after the one it funded in Hobart last month generated criticism from trans rights activists.

The billboard, which read ‘Let Kids Be Kids’, was located on the Brooker Highway in Glenorchy.

Apparently the very notion of leaving kids alone is intolerably offensive to the trans lobby. The billboard was vandalised last week.

Like all cry-bullies, though, the blokes in lipstick claim that they’re the ones under attack.

[The billboard] was slammed as an assault on trans rights by Equality Tasmania, a group that advocates for allowing children to independently affirm their own gender identities […]

“Trans and gender diverse Tasmanians have been attacked from a billboard in Hobart’s northern suburbs,” the post read.

If asking to “let kids be kids” is an “attack” on trannies, well… what are they really saying?
LGB Tasmania are far from backing down, though.

Jessica Hoyle, spokesperson for LGB Tasmania, said her group has now funded another billboard in Kings Meadows in Launceston, and is hoping to raise money to fund another in Burnie.

Ms Hoyle said she hoped the billboards would raise awareness of Tasmanian policies that she claimed harm children by allowing the use of gender-affirming hormone and medical treatments.

“All the research is saying that puberty blockers are harmful to children – why are we giving them to children?” she said.

Indeed, the growing evidence of the profound harm of “affirmation” is such that Britain, Norway, Finland, and Sweden have banned the practise. A growing number of US states are doing likewise.

[Hoyle] said allowing gender transition at an early age did not allow children the time to understand the consequences.

Children should be supported in who they are, but not encouraged to medically transition, she said.

“If Equality Tasmania have a problem with safeguarding children, we need to look at what’s behind Equality Tasmania.”

The move away from so-called “affirmation” is becoming so pronounced that even the “Exaggerator” (as Launceston’s daily paper is locally known) is moved to produce some actual, balanced, journalism.

The battle of the billboards represents a clash of two different approaches to children experiencing gender dysphoria – a condition where individuals express distress due to feelings of a mismatch between their gender identity and their biological sex.

According to a statement from the National Association of Practising Psychologists (NAPP), the ‘Affirmation Model’ involves supporting the child’s gender identity and offering rapid gender transition with the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

The other approach is a more cautious model that emphasises psychological counselling and exploration of gender identity before making any decisions about medical intervention, according to the NAPP.

Launceston Examiner

The “Battle of the Billboards” continues, with LGB Tasmania fundraising for its ongoing campaign to protect children from “harmful gender ideology”.