Jacinta Allan, the premier of the Australian state of Victoria, has launched what Sky News calls “a disturbing attack on free and open reporting in a heated defence of a radical push of transgender ideology to five-year-olds.” Her response is a microcosmic example of what the LGBT-captured elites think of all those who disagree with them.
As I have reported often in this space, the transgender agenda – especially the indoctrination of young children in schools – never gained support from the public. Instead, policies were created and implemented by governments, school boards, and LGBT activists without the consent and often without the knowledge of parents.
In Australia, Victoria’s Department of Education added LGBT content to their curriculum in August 2023, including “content that teaches children in their first year of primary school that their biological sex may not align with their gender identity.” Included in this curriculum is:
A case study in which a trans-identifying boy called “Stacey” is told she must play on the boy’s team. What, the class is asked, should Stacey say? One of two prompts are expected: “Yes I can play with the girls’ team because I am a girl!” or “Go and ask the teacher if you don’t believe me. Our teacher says I belong in the girls’ team!”
That some children “do not want to be called a boy or a girl”; a promotion of gender fluidity and the recently invented “non-binary” identity.
That some children have body parts that do not match their internal feelings, and thus being a “boy” or a “girl” is not determined by your biological sex.
Rachel Baxendale of The Australianbroke the story, and Premier Allan viciously attacked her – and, by doing so, the free press itself – at an August 13 press conference. It was a mask-off moment: for politicians like Allan, any criticism of the ideological programming they have designed for other people’s children will not be borne.
“It’s disgraceful nonsense, this sort of ongoing attack on a program that is making a difference in kids’ lives just should be stopped,” Allan ranted. “It’s disgraceful reporting, it’s hurtful. When you consider that transgender kids are 15 times more likely to kill themselves … The Australian needs to stop this ongoing campaign because it’s hurtful and harmful.”
Of course, Allan is ignoring the fact that a growing body of evidence highlights precisely the opposite: that it is LGBT indoctrination, not hard-facts reporting, that hurts children. Indeed, the U.K. National Health Service’s Cass Review condemned “social transitioning” at school for precisely that reason. Deliberately confusing children about biological sex is “disgraceful” and genuinely “hurtful.” But Allan refused to address any of that evidence, and merely asserted – wrongly – that such education is essentially a form of suicide prevention.
“Parents should be very concerned that the Victorian government both supports and funds the indoctrination of children with fringe theories about sex and gender, years before it is appropriate. Attacking reporting on what actually is going on in schools should be concerning to every Victorian,” said Bella d’Abrera, director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs.
Jacinta Allan will say or do anything to avoid having to be honest and upfront about the radical theories being pushed on Victorian children at school. That the premier is again trying to deflect attention away from these radical and age-inappropriate campaigns tells parents all they need to know.
The premier’s performance today reinforces her warped view that the government has the right to decide what children are taught regarding relationships and not parents. Unfortunately, today, from childcare to secondary school, there is not a level of our education system that has not been hijacked by activists to push their radical social agenda on children.
The premier was particularly angered by comments made to The Australian by child psychiatrist Dr. Jillian Spencer. “Because of the harms of medical interventions – like infertility, lack of sexual function, physical health problems and the risk of regret – we need to do what we can to assist children to feel comfortable in their body,” she said. “I think it’s wrong to introduce [the notion of being transgender] early. It just introduces confusion.”
Additionally, Parents of Adolescents with Gender Distress condemned the program as a “school-to-clinic pipeline,” with a spokesperson noting:
We have multiple examples of young people who have been socially transitioned at school without their parents’ knowledge or consent. As soon as they turn 18, they’ve gone to see an affirming GP or clinician and they’ve been handed a script for hormones, often based on the fact that they’ve been socially transitioned for a couple of years.
Trans activists are, slowly but surely, losing the public debate. In that context, Premier Allan’s rage at a press exposé on her LGBT indoctrination curriculum is understandable. Horrified parents are waking up to what their children are being taught – and thus, trans activists would like to keep it a secret until the job is done.
