I have written before about the disgraceful treatment in Victoria of the Liberal MP, Moira Deeming, a teacher turned politician.

We need to hear more from this woman and nothing from the incompetent Liberal Opposition leader in Victoria who wanted her expelled from the Party.

As I have previously explained, Moira Deeming attended a rally on the steps of the Victorian Parliament, protesting, peacefully, the need for safe spaces for women.

In other words, there needs to be full debate on what rights transgender women (biological men who transition to women) – should they be allowed in spaces reserved for women?

Common sense would say no.

Moira Deeming attended a rally arguing for safe spaces.

It was infiltrated by a few Nazis and she was accused, virtually, of being a Nazi sympathiser.

I said previously that she should be the Opposition leader in Victoria and that bloke Pesutto should be provided with an undignified exit.

Interestingly, Moira Deeming said, at the time of going into Parliament, ‘I don’t think it is healthy to tell children that they can change sex; or that their feelings on what sex they are, are the thing that they should affirm, rather than their biology; because which thing is going to leave you healthier in the long run?’

She wants to see an inquiry in Victoria into youth gender medicine, arguing that the inquiry ‘has to be genuine, it has to be real, and it has to be open and it has to go for six months, a year, or whatever it takes’.

Victoria is home to Australia’s largest and most influential gender clinic at the Royal Childrens’ Hospital in Melbourne, where new patient referrals, this is a gender clinic, have multiplied 100-fold over the decade since 2011.

And the clinic gets moral and financial support from the Andrews Labor government.

Moira Deeming used her maiden speech recently as a Liberal Member of Victoria’s Upper House to call for ‘an open inquiry into gender affirmation practices’ involving minors.

She described hormonal and surgical interventions as ‘medically unjustifiable, irreversible and devastatingly harmful’, but argued ‘ideologues continue to vilify and incite hatred towards anyone sounding the alarm’.

We are talking here about gender ideology in schools, which prompted Moira Deeming to say she could no longer teach in Victoria in good conscience.

She said, ‘I didn’t want to be involved in telling a child that medicalised gender change was good. I didn’t want to be involved in confusing a child. I didn’t want to be involved in lying to parents… I felt like I was being used by the Government to push an ideology behind parents’ backs, which was not anywhere near close to being harmless.’

Well, that is Victoria.

Let’s go to Queensland where the Labor Government has legislation before the Parliament to help people in Queensland more easily change the sex indicated on their birth certificate by removing the requirement to have undergone sex reassignment surgery.

Under the legislation, parents would be able to opt not to record a gender on the birth certificate of their newborn.

These are supposedly plans, as part of reforms, to promote transgender rights.

I spoke, off air, recently, to the Opposition leader in Queensland, David Crisafulli.

He told me that the legislation hasn’t gone through the Parliament, but it will with the support of the Greens.

If the legislation is passed, children over the age of 16 will be able to legally identify as a different sex without parental consent.

But they will need a supporting statement from an adult whom they have known for at least a year.

Those aged 12 to 15 will need parental permission to change the sex on their birth certificate; but they will be able to apply to the courts if they can’t get their parents’ support.

A medical statement from a doctor or a psychologist will not be required.

At what point is legislation of this kind completely out of step with community expectations and with parental rights, to say nothing of the safety of women.

But the Attorney General in Queensland, Shannon Fentiman, condemning those who questioned these moves, is saying that those who criticise ‘will try to cloak their transphobia in the guise of women’s safety – making claims about trans women accessing women’s spaces, including changerooms or even domestic violence shelters’.

So, you see, dare to criticise and you will be vilified as transphobic.

But it appears that if you are an MP like the Attorney-General in Queensland, you can tell untruths as you blunder your way through.

Says Attorney-General Fentiman, ‘I want to be clear, there is no evidence, domestic or internationally, to support these outrageous claims.’

That is not the case.

There was a 2020 incident in Britain where transgender prisoners sexually assaulted women in jail; and, yet, trans inmates were still allowed to be transferred to female prisons upon request.

The British Ministry of Justice said that, ‘Since 2010, out of the 124 sexual assaults that occurred in the female estate, a total of seven of those were sexual assaults against females, in custody, perpetrated by transgender individuals.’

It raises a significant question.

I was driving down the streets of Sydney yesterday and I stopped at the traffic lights.

There were a lot of young children aged 3 to 15 crossing at the lights, and I pondered what their future holds.

Are we living at a time when the law and society will tell you that sex can be changed; that young children can make life-altering decisions without parental consent; that birth certificate information can be changed; that feelings override facts.

If that is the case, what kind of world are we becoming?

And let me repeat what I ask many times.

Is this stuff being encouraged and cultivated in schools?

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