Queensland LNP goes on tirade against trans and gender diverse people on Facebook
Image: Image: Facebook / LNP Queensland
The Queensland branch of the Liberal National Party (LNP) has launched a series of attacks on trans and gender diverse people on its Facebook page.
As the state government undertakes a review of how sex and gender diversity is recognised by the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, the LNP has lashed out at the community.
Opposition leader Deb Frecklington called advocates “the thought police”, labelling the review of inclusiveness “political correctness gone mad”.
And the Queensland LNP has used its Facebook page to post material ridiculing and attacking trans and intersex people, and to suggest adults are trying to force children to be trans.
The content includes a video calling basic gender resource The Genderbread Person “disgusting”, and a post stating “you’re either born a male or a female”.
“We can’t sit by while the radical left imposes their twisted views on kids’ gender, trying to change our society,” reads another post.
While many Facebook users have rebutted the comments, others have joined in on slamming trans people in the comments.
“No such thing as ‘non-binary’,” wrote one person.
“Male, female, or mentally and physically unwell,” commented another.
Users have called gender diversity in classrooms “PC crap”, “disgusting”, “absolutely insane”, and “disturbing”.
However, plenty of others have come to the defence of the sex and gender diverse community on the Queensland LNP’s page.
On the matter of birth certificates, a number of users have mentioned the needs of those with intersex variations, only to be met with ill-informed replies about people born with “both sets of genitals”.
“This is actually just blatant hate speech, you’re not even trying to hide it anymore,” wrote one person. “You are hurting real people with this rhetoric.”
The Queensland LNP Facebook page comment policy states that comments containing “hate speech” or “defamation to a person or people” will be deleted, and such comments may also breach Facebook community standards.
Star Observer has reached out to the Queensland LNP for comment.
Totally agree Dave, these people have no terms of reference from which to make such comments. Not educated, not empathetic, not relevant. It will take generations for these self aggrandising LNP/Christian/Q,landers to acquaint themselves with the reality of human existence. What stands out is their willingness to hate.
WE CALL FOR CALM as the Queensland LNP goes on tirade against trans and gender diverse people on Facebook
The Queensland LNP has launch a hate campaign via Facebook and some disgusting abusive comments have been posted, along with some very reassuring support from people who are defending our community.
So we are asking the trans and gender diverse community to keep calm and maintain civility as these conservatives launch scathing attacks on our community.
We will get through this by coming together, standing united and standing strong. We will focus on winning and maintaining our bipartisan the support of the allies we already have within the Liberal governments around Australia. It is time for this transphobic hysteria and madness to end.
If you see any hate speech including vilification posted on Facebook, especially those that contain treats of violence or abuse towards members of our community, this organization and members of the board, please report the content to Facebook
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Melody Moore
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Trans Health Australia
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Way to go Queensland Branch of the LNP. You’re telling it as it is. We’re either male or female. Gender diversity in classrooms is just PC crap. It’s really refreshing you guys taking a stand in all this nonsense. Keep up the good work!
The LNP leave a lot to be desired when it comes to LGBTIQ policy. The Young LNP get closed down whenever they try to bring more inclusive policy to the table at State Conference, usually with the aid of hate speech by more mature members of the Party.
Most importantly the religious rednecks from the Ipswich and the Darling Downs keep the emphasis on Biblical teachings. Despite the fact that our society is supposed to be secular, religion, and maintaining the Religious vote and monetary support, is always uppermost in the minds of these people.
The ignorant far outweigh those with any form of compassion.
The Queensland LNP is in total denial of the reality that some folks are literally born intersex, with physical characteristics of both male and female. If you believe in God and creationism, then these folks are God’s creations like any others. It is not drawing a long bow to understand that similarly some other folks may have particular ‘binary’ physical characteristics of one gender but have brain wiring which leads them to identify as being of the other gender, especially considering how complicated the brain is and how poorly we understand the details of its operation.
Turning this whole business political, ignoring science and the jumping on hateful bandwagons is what the Queensland LNP does best. They’ll be going for creationism in schools next. They are some of the most backwards folks I’ve ever encountered in Australia.
As a bloke who’s a bloke and settled in my gender, I can’t imagine that trans folks would go through the difficulty and pain of transitioning without being pretty damn confident they knew they were on the right track. Why make it harder for them? Who does it help?
Of course this isn’t about helping anyone. It’s just about rednecks feeling superior to somebody, anybody at all.