Conservatives to march against pro-LGBTI education in Melbourne
Image: Image: Tom Facey / Facebook.
Victorian residents have been shocked to receive transphobic flyers in their mailboxes this week.
Urging action against the teaching of gender diversity in schools, the flyers bear slogans such as ‘stop sexualising our children’ and ‘radical gender theory belongs in Marxist classes’.
On ‘impersonation of the opposite sex’, it quotes the official-sounding American College of Pediatricians—a right-wing religious fringe group of about 500 members, which is not to be confused with the real American Academy of Pediatrics.
Ballarat local Tom Facey shared pictures on Facebook of the flyer he received.
“It made me feel a bit unwell, realising how insensitive people can be,” said Facey.
“I have heard of organisations like the one the flyer is from, but haven’t come across material like this before in my area.”
Facey said the materials seemed ignorant and hurtful to trans people.
“I am not trans myself, but it seems very dismissive of science, sociology, and people’s experiences,” he said.
“Especially some associates and friends of mine who identify as trans who live in my town. I can’t imagine what they are going through.
“It reads like moral panic propaganda seen in some newspapers, that makes everyday people out to be something foreign and scary.”
The transphobic and anti-Safe Schools campaign appears to be part of the ‘Sex Ed Sit-Out‘, a US-based movement fighting sex education and LGBTI inclusion in schools.
The Sex Ed Sit-Out has been supported in Australia by conservative blogger Marijke Rancie, also known as Political Posting Mumma.
The group behind it are planning marches to protest LGBTI education and sex education in schools on Saturday 21 April .
The marches are intended to involve pulling children out of school in protest, though in Australia, the day falls during the school holiday period.
The Coalition Against Unsafe Schools Education website denies that Safe Schools is an anti-bullying program, calling it instead “political indoctrination” and claiming it teaches children about “sex toys” and “penis tucking”.
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The misrepresentation of “conservatives” in this article is staggering. You misrepresent who we are, what we believe and why we are marching. Also, for the record, Political posting mamma has had nothing to do with the organisation of this march and will not be present.
How about we stop stereotyping each other and attacking each other? How about we think about getting together as fellow human beings and actually EXPLAIN ourselves? I for one, am willing to put it out there. I am happy to meet with ANYONE and explain why I voted NO in the recent postal vote. Millions of us did – have you wondered why? Would you like to hear why?? Or would you prefer to keep calling us names? We can’t ALL be “homophobes” and “bigots”
Anyone out there interested in some civil dialogue? Please post below if you are…
” ‘radical gender theory belongs in Marxist classes’.”
Once again I’m forced to ask, can anybody at all provide a single quote from Marx’s millions of published words which refers to gender or sexual identity?
The guy wrote thousands of pages of largely unreadable politico-economic theory. Those who took him literally did significant political-economic damage to their societies, for the most part, although they were also subjected to western sanctions so it’s hard to judge how bad the theory was on its own merits.
But what’s fucking clear to anyone with a grasp of anything is that the societies which most embraced Marx also hate gay and trans people. Stalin remains incredibly popular in the former USSR, Putin is hoping to achieve similar popularity but he’s not there yet despite decrying the end of Marxism. And from then to now there is no sympathy at all for gay or trans communities in those societies.
Can anyone explain it? It’s really starting to look like the anti-gay crowd are very fucking desperate to hang shit on anti-bullying programs. They certainly have no regard for history, academia or common sense.
I am happy to try to explain if you are really after an explanation.
No – we are NOT against anti bullying programs at all. NO ONE wants to see bullying happening in schools. The belief is that “safe schools Coalition” present something that is more about forcing celebration of lgbt ideology, which some people just cannot do. We also can not tolerate overly sexualised material being presented to our children “whether we like it or not” – which is how this program was presented. Parents have a right to have input into this sort of material being presented to their children.
I think the “Marxist” link is the attempt to indoctrinate young children, which is a tactic used by Marxists. Does that make sense?
I have posted a comment on this article offering to meet with anyone and have a civil discussion explaining my opposition to this program, but it is still “awaiting moderation”.
Yet egotistically, religious belief often claims as its integral view, the resorting to a process as disenfranchising of the essence and soul of the human dignity itself as the value of the person being the other by its habituated pervasive carelessness as a culture of disrespect which is always a quantification as:
#1 – a degree of avaricious want;
#2 – the potential of limitations upon reality;
#3 – a capability to beguile and stupefy with words, the quarry sought as the object of virile necessity;
#4 – variance of acceptability as the cause for improbability;
#5 – the permissibility of idealisations;
#6 – the organisational readiness to eliminate any inhibitors to the physical dynamics of opportunity;
#7 – to facilitate a sporting prowess of a proud accomplishment in a mutually satisfying purposed delivery; and
#8 – a job well done, always wants more.
I have in the past, even given such cursory universal observations which are independent of gender and sexual identity as summarily proclaimed but not exhaustively made of the sexual act. Been accused of over intellectualising how people engage their wants within this physical act.
Although some have more succinctly surmised as nothing more than a f@ck you and then onto the next, until you run out of opportunities.
And on the eighth day God said, ‘I’m done with those f@ckers.’
YOUTUBE: “Doctor Who – Victory of the Daleks – The Paradigm Daleks”
Deus ex machina.
– dolf
Initial Post: 18 April 2018