The Australian Christian Lobby has sent an election mail out in Victoria, spreading transphobia and trying to discredit The Greens.
Residents of the City of Yarra and Moreland City Councils contacted QNews after they received transphobic election material.
It arrived in their letterbox the day after Trans Day of Visibility.
The pamphlet from the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) was titled: âMale and Female Matterâ.
It states that the Greens are âexperimenting with biology at your expenseâ.
âMale and female matter, The Greens donât agree,â the pamphlet read.
Siting that âwhile you wait for urgent medical care, The Greens want to use your tax dollars for free gender transition surgeriesâ.
The pamphlet also says that the Greens wish to put more gender clinics in hospitals while emergency departments are in crisis.
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Australian Christian Lobby spread transphobia in election letter drop
in Q NewsRepublican Senator Tuberville Falsely Claims "Entire Teams Are Turning Trans"
in Erin in the MorningJust putting this here until it's superseded by something even more ridiculous.
In an interview Sunday on Foxâs Sunday Morning Futures, Alabama Senator and former football coach Tommy Tuberville claimed that âentire menâs teams⊠womenâs teams are turning trans.â Tuberville previously served as the primary sponsor of a national transgender sports ban, which was defeated in the U.S. Senate earlier this year. The senator offered no evidence for his incendiary claim, and to date, there is no documented instance of âentire teamsâ identifying as transgender. His remarks follow a string of increasingly exaggerated claims from Republicans and President Trump about the presence of transgender people in sports and schools.
âEntire menâs teams across this country now that are turning trans⊠womenâs teams that are turning trans. Thatâs going to be a situation now where it is going to pick up speed, because these woke globalists are pushing these kids to say, âif you canât compete in menâs sports, letâs just transition to say youâre a woman and participate in womenâs sports.â It is dead wrong, and weâve got to stand up against it, but the Democrats⊠theyâre all in of keeping this situation going in the wrong direction,â Tuberville said. The host offered no pushback, nodding and replying âyeahâ during the segment, failing to fact-check the baseless claims.
TransWorldExpress
Every fascist movement needs a group of people to blame all the bad things in the world on. Obviously, this is a highly dangerous situation to said people, and they might need to flee the country. This is a small project trying to help them within the bounds of what we can do.
A TSA Agent Stopped Me After Seeing Something On Her Screen. Humiliated, I Was Floored By What She Said Next.
in HuffPostThis is more than a bit clickbaity, but the punchline is rather sweet.`
After stewing about this for my entire six-hour flight, I finally made it to San Francisco. When I exited the subway at Union Square, I walked past a seriously tattooed, jacked-up dude who immediately began ranting at me with his bullhorn.
âHow dare you blaspheme the Lord with your appearance!â he screamed while his two buddies/bodyguards and a handful of passersby stopped to laugh (although not at him).
âYou were not meant to remove parts of you your body that the Lord designed just for you, so you could go forth and procreate!â
I started to argue that he was thinking of the wrong body part I planned on losing in San Francisco, but that was a trans rookie mistake. Never engage.
He launched into the classic, âonly mentally ill people donât know the difference between men and womenâ tirade as I slipped away. However, that was when a woman asked me for change. I politely declined and kept moving, only to be serenaded by her piercing, âYou fuckinâ trannies! You canât fool me! You should be ashamed!â
The Myth of Trans Contagion: Debunking Rapid-Onset GD Claims
in TransVitaeA really comprehensive roundup:
In 2018, a physician and researcher named Lisa Littman published a paper in the journal PLOS One describing what she termed ârapid-onset gender dysphoriaâ (ROGD). She hypothesized that some young peopleâparticularly those assigned female at birthâmight claim a transgender identity after increasing their social media use or befriending trans peers. According to this perspective, online platforms supposedly âinfectâ teenagers with the idea that they are trans, creating clusters of youth who suddenly identify in new ways.
From the moment Littmanâs paper appeared, researchers and advocacy groups criticized its methodology. Littmanâs survey collected responses solely from parents recruited on three websites openly skeptical or critical of medical care for trans youth. These anti-trans or âtrans-skepticalâ forumsâ4thWaveNow, Transgender Trend, and Youth Trans Critical Professionalsâadvertised Littmanâs survey to parents who already believed their childâs trans identity was misguided. Unsurprisingly, 76.5% of respondents felt their child was âincorrectâ in identifying as transgender.
Critics also pointed out that the youth themselves were never surveyed. Parents who participated were asked to diagnose their children with gender dysphoria (a clinical term referring to distress due to a mismatch between oneâs internal sense of gender and assigned sex at birth), even though most parents do not have training in psychology or medicine.
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Although Littmanâs original 2018 article used the term ROGD, many discussions in conservative blogs and online groups substituted or conflated it with âtransgender social contagion.â This idea claims that trans identity spreads from teen to teen like a virusâan online trend rather than a real expression of self.
While the ROGD paper didnât use the âsocial contagionâ phrase outright, it alluded to the concept through references to âpeer influenceâ and social media immersion. Almost immediately, these concepts were embraced by anti-trans activists, policymakers, and media personalities. The theory gave them a sort of âscientificâ veneer to argue that trans kids are just âconfused.â As a result, many now simply refer to both ROGD and âtransgender social contagionâ interchangeably, even though they are (at least in Littmanâs framing) slightly different.
Transgender athletesâ rights was opposed by those who viewed female athletes as undeserving, study finds
in PsyPostI'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
The researchers found that respondents who viewed female athletes as less deserving of attention, support, and media coverage were more likely to oppose transgender inclusion in sports. For example, individuals who disagreed with statements like âWomenâs sports deserve the same amount of media coverage as menâs sportsâ were significantly less likely to support transgender athletesâ rights.
The researchers also found that adherence to traditional standards of femininityâsuch as prioritizing thinness and attractivenessâwas a strong predictor of opposition to transgender athlete inclusion. For instance, respondents who endorsed the idea that women should be thin or that womenâs muscles were less attractive were less supportive of transgender athletes competing in alignment with their gender identity.
Similarly, those who agreed with statements like âFemale athletes will never be as good as male athletesâ were more likely to oppose allowing transgender athletes to compete according to their gender identity and to support sex testing.
Negative attitudes toward homosexuality were another powerful predictor of opposition to transgender athletesâ rights. Participants who expressed homophobic views, such as agreeing with statements like âI would be disappointed if I found out my child was homosexual,â were significantly more likely to support sex testing and oppose transgender inclusion.
According to the researchers, the findings suggest that opposition to transgender inclusion often reflects efforts to uphold traditional gender norms and maintain the existing gender order rather than a genuine commitment to advancing womenâs sports.
How many transgender athletes are there in the US? Hardly any at all, according to experts
in PinkNewsIn May 2023, Newsweek interviewed researcher and medical physicist Joanna Harper, and asked her to estimate the number of transgender athletes competing in US sports.
âWhile we donât know the exact number of trans women competing in NCAA sports, I would be very surprised if there were more than 100 of them in the womenâs category,â Harper replied.
That number is even smaller when it comes to middle school and high school athletes. Newsweek also spoke to Gillian Branstetter, a spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who told Newsweek that Save Womenâs Sports, a leading voice in the bid to ban transgender athletes from competing in girlsâ sports, identified only five transgender athletes competing on girlsâ teams in school sports for grades K through 12.
Yes, thatâs right. Not 5000, not 500, not even 50 â just five trans student-athletes. All of this legislation, work, lobbying and anger â is aimed at preventing a tiny handful of young people from playing school sports.
The summer that exposed the anti-trans movement
in Politics.co.ukA solid summary of a distressing few months that seemed to go on for years.
A few weeks ago an anonymous person threatened to kill my friend. Her crime: being trans. This sort of thing is depressingly familiar to anyone who dares to be or support trans online. Away from the darker reaches of the internet, however, the so called âgender criticalâ (what I understand to be âanti-transâ) movement enjoys platforms in national media and access to the highest corridors of power. The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has even appeared to make high profile statements in support. This summer, however, the GC movementâs claims to legitimacy crumbled.
Judith Butler, a titan of feminist academia, argues that the movement enforces the patriarchal gender norms favoured by the religious and far-right. âMenâ and âwomenâ are confined to tightly defined stereotypes and anyone who deviates is punished. It would explain why GCs receive support from authoritarians like Vladimir Putin, and far right politicians like Giorgia Meloni.
One might be forgiven for thinking the GC movement spent the summer trying to prove Butler right.
The 19th Explains: How bathroom bans on federal property would impact trans Americans
in The 19thIt's intentionally the opposite of public safety. It's giving violent bigots carte blanche to assault any woman who doesn't meet their expectations of femininity. It's not designed to "work"; it's designed to sow chaos and fear.
These state bathroom bans provide few, if any details about how they would be enforced because they donât need to â private citizens are often meant to be the enforcers, said Logan Casey, director of policy research at the Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit that tracks LGBTQ+ legislation.
âThe way that the laws are de facto enforced is often through the emboldening of private individuals to police other peopleâs bathroom use,â he said. âThereâs no written enforcement because the proponents of these bills know that just by talking about this, let alone enacting these laws, that they are emboldening individual people themselves to enforce these bathroom bans.â
A recent example that takes this formula to an extreme can be seen in Odessa, Texas. A new expansion of the West Texas townâs ordinance allows individual citizens to sue transgender people caught using bathrooms that match their gender identity and seek âno less than $10,000 in damages,â per the Texas Tribune.
Deputizing private citizens to enforce this kind of law enables high rates of harassment and violence against transgender people as well as cisgender people, Casey said, particularly women who do not conform to traditional ideas of femininity.
Cis Mom Harassed by Transphobes After Winning Half-Marathon
in Assigned MediaThe trans community predicted well in advance that cis women would inevitably wind up being targeted by the growing anti-trans hysteria, and that, because trans women are relatively uncommon, the majority of the harassment would ultimately be targeting cisgender women. That has sadly turned out to be the case as members of the public whoâve been whipped into a transmisogynistic frenzy look to vent their rage on any women who doesnât adequately perform femininity. The harassment of Harold after her half-marathon is just the latest in a growing list of similar incidents. Some of these have been relatively mild, such as fleeting encounters in public restrooms where cis women have been challenged or treated disrespectfully by people who believed that they were trans. A few, however, have been violent, including an incident where a woman was maced, dragged, and kicked after a shop attendant got the mistaken idea she was transgender, and one where a woman was murdered by a man who falsely believed her to be transgender. Both of the victims of violent attacks were Black women, who are believed to be particularly vulnerable to transmisogyny, included misdirected transmisogyny.
Incidents like these, where cis women wind up as targets for hatred and harassment intended for trans women, provide an opportunity to shine a spotlight on just how ugly and pointless the anti-trans panic is, even as harassment and violence towards trans women is often ignored and downplayed. However, it also speaks to the irony of a hate campaign that targets a group of women who are small in number, risk averse, and difficult to distinguish from other women. Cis women donât just wind up as frequent targets of anti-trans hate by accident, they wind up as targets of anti-trans hate because the loathing and violent anger engendered by the anti-trans movement has to vent itself on somebody, and there arenât enough visible trans women to slake the bloodlust.