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Margot Oliver, a feminist and Australian Greens party member is being called transphobic after an article she wrote appeared in a Greens internal newsletter. "Performing the societal stereotypes of the other sex does not turn you into the other sex" she said, yikes
submitted 4 years ago by Chipit from self.news
The article text, click to make it full-size and readable: https://i.imgur.com/AzfwQvj.jpg
Here’s the Guardian article, which characterises it as “transphobic”.
NSW Greens apologise for publishing transphobic article. Review promised into how an article criticising ‘transactivist agenda’ found its way into Greens newsletter
SBS News: NSW Greens launch internal review after backlash over 'transphobic' article
The New South Wales Greens have been forced to offer an apology after its member newsletter featured an article that claimed the "transactivist agenda" is presenting "negative consequences" for women.
“The article came to the attention of LGBTQI+ activist and Change.org executive director Sally Rugg who described it as ‘bigoted’ and ‘transphobic’.”
Greens are generally at pains to be seen as uber-Woke. If they were really concerned about women’s safety, they would have supported a move to enable them to defend themselves, to some degree at least, with pepper spray. However, Greens senators voted with Labor and the Coalition to reject this motion (page 63):
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/chamber/hansards/9eef6b31-3509-4f19-aff2-298cba8a8db6/toc_pdf/Senate_2018_06_28_6281_Official.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf
“Senator RICE: The Greens oppose this ill-conceived, blundering and harmful motion. If Senator Anning really wants the government to ensure that innocent citizens are protected from harm, might I suggest that he focus his attention on interventions that prevent men’s violence. The last thing that women in Australia need now is another man in power telling us that we are responsible for violence against us. Senator Anning’s motion puts the onus on women to go to extreme lengths to ensure our safety, when the priority must be to eradicate men’s violence. That’s where the problem is. That’s where the responsibility lies. That’s where government interventions need to be focused.”
[–]dcjogger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
If the rate of new laws grows every year by 10% and only 1% of Americans become Libertarians, you could say that tyranny is winning.
Looks like Americans need to up their game.
Americans don't care about freedom, but things are getting serious. Tyranny just increases constantly.
Couldn't Americans get out of their echo chambers and wake people up?
Who would have thought in 1980 that the USA would soon have nanny state laws, regulations, security cameras, license plate readers, checkpoints, redlight cameras, speed cameras, FBI facial and voice recognition, curfews, gun bans, searches without warrants, mandatory minimums, DNA databases, CISPA, SOPA, IMBRA, private prison quotas, no knock raids, take down notices, no fly lists, terror watch lists, Constitution free zones, stop and frisk, 3 strikes laws, kill switches, National Security Letters, kill lists, FBAR, FATCA, Operation Chokepoint, civil forfeiture, CIA torture, NDAA indefinite detention, secret FISA courts, FEMA camps, laws requiring passports for domestic travel, IRS laws denying passports for tax debts, gun and ammo stockpiles, laws outlawing protesting, police militarization, NSA wiretapping, the end to the right to silence, free speech bans, private prisons, FOSTA, TSA groping, and Jade Helm?
Maybe Americans might be a little safer in Chile when the USA starts WWIII with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
https://ideapod.com/top-10-safest-countries-world-war-3-breaks/
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