Should a school or a student’s parents decide whether the child can be involved in gender transitioning? In Australia, material associated with the gender fluidity Safe Schools program on the Commonwealth government’s Wellbeing Hub tells schools there are times when parents can be kept in the dark.

The question of parents’ rights is news in Florida where an impending Court of Appeals case seeks to overturn a decision that schools can help students gender transition without telling parents and getting their consent.

According to the appeal brief the school concerned met with the parent’s daughter, without their knowledge, and helped her ‘develop a “gender support plan” that let her choose what name, pronoun, and restrooms she would use, and with what sex she would be housed on overnight trips’.

Australian parents need to understand the Florida case is simply the latest example proving how widespread neo-Marxist-inspired gender theory now is. Beginning with the campaign in the late 1960s to support gay and lesbian rights, gender activism has grown to embrace a rainbow alliance of LGBTQ+ activists intent on denying human nature and cancelling the nuclear family.

June is Pride Month in America and, such is the dominance of gender theory, that major beverage, retail, and sporting bodies are active in indoctrinating customers, including children, with gender fluidity ideology. One of America’s most popular beers, Bud Light, famously (or perhaps infamously) employed the transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in a marketing campaign.

In celebration of Pride Month, retail companies including Walmart and Target have extensive marketing campaigns directed at celebrating and normalising the irrational belief that men can be women and women can be men and boys can be girls and girls can be boys.

On its webpage, Walmart proudly advertises LGBTQ+ founded brands selling rainbow badged backpacks proclaiming, ‘love is love’; can coolers stating, ‘love makes a family’; and notebooks stating, ‘the future is inclusive’.

As detailed by the Our Duty website, whether America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, or Australia, vulnerable school children are being indoctrinated globally with the belief gender and sexuality are social constructs and they have the right to self-identify anywhere on the non-binary spectrum.

In the United Kingdom the Girl Guides Association is now known as Girlguiding and while describing itself as ‘the UK’s largest youth organisation dedicated completely to girls’ the definition of girls adopted is one very much in tune with irrational Woke gender ideology.

Under the heading ‘Supporting trans members’, Girlguiding embraces ‘all girls and young women, including trans girls and young women’ and that ‘non-binary people assigned female at birth and trans boys as new young members based on their sex should also feel welcome’.

Australia has also fallen victim to radical gender theory illustrated by the neo-Marxist-inspired Safe Schools program that originated in Victoria in 2010 and that was subsequently funded by Commonwealth governments, both ALP and Liberal/National.

Gone are the days when schools focused on teaching the basics, teachers were impartial and objective in what they taught and universities were committed to the ideal that education enabled students to be independent, rational, and critical thinkers.

Kindergarten teachers are told to tell children to use non-binary pronouns, schools are involved in IDAHOBIT day, the National English Association of Teachers tells teachers that fairy tales like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty as well as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet are heteronormative and universities celebrate Pride Week.

Given neo-Marxist inspired gender theory contradicts common sense, human biology, and God’s law, it should not surprise there are signs sanity might prevail. In Florida and Virginia, parents have been energised to fight back and to re-assert the right they have as their children’s moral guardians.

Republican governors including Ron DeSantis and Glenn Youngkin, in part, owe their electoral success to parental activism. Such has been the public’s hostility in America that Target has removed more offensive examples of its pride merchandise and shares in Bud Light’s parent company have fallen dramatically – amounting to a drop of $4 billion in the company’s market value.

The UK’s Tavistock gender clinic has been closed and in Europe medical associations and professional bodies argue children and adolescents are too vulnerable and susceptible to be conditioned into self-identifying as trans or non-binary.

The argument gender and sexuality are non-binary and a matter of personal choice, as well as contradicting human biology, is especially offensive and objectionable to Christians who believe gender and sexuality are God ordained.

His Holiness Pope Francis and the American Catholic archbishops argue against radical gender and sexuality theory based on the Bible that states ‘male and female he created them’.

Dr Kevin Donnelly is a senior fellow at the ACU’s PM Glynn Institute and author of Cancel Culture and the Left’s Long March.

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