My Health Record - the next item on the agenda and regardless of whether you
opted in or out, this is really worth noting especially for parents this
feature of the my health record regime. On February 4th, new My Health
Record privacy laws came into effect including this one - as soon as a child
turns 14, their parents and guardians are automatically locked out of their health
record. The child actually has to provide consent actively for their parents to
see that health information and what this means is that if you know for
example, a family doctor is speaking to a parent about the child's health
information, they cannot divulge that until the 14-year-old gives
explicit consent. Now this is a world of STIs, of abortion, of gender dysphoria.
A child can hide any of those things from the parents and not receive any support
from the family and there's all sorts of reasons why they might decide to do that
but the reason...Dr. Pinskier, who's the chair of the RACGP expert committee
says that things seem harmless and says something that's at
first compelling. He says if teenagers come from a family in which children
want their parents to be involved in their health care which is most of the
time, why wouldn't they nominate the parent to be able to access the record?
Now, of course, in my case growing up I would have. It wouldn't have occurred to
me not to give permission. It would've been weird to be asked permission but
you know there's a trend that's emerging in this day and age in 2018, 2019, which
is concerning and which plays into this and it is that Safe Schools
curriculum resources delve into this subject, believe it or not and there's an
example for you that we uncovered recently on a Victorian Education
Department website called Fuse and that resource promotes various resources for
teens and one of them for kids in years 8 9 and vce so starting at the tender
age of 15 which is below the age of consent is a video and it encourages
these teens as young as 15 remember to be sexually active and access
contraception without parental knowledge or consent it
encourages that the video makes light of sti's as well as no big deal you can get
it easily treated with a course of antibiotics they say and this you know a
key part of what they say is this note key point that's emphasized in the video
is that once you've by the time you're 15 you are not required to be on your
parents Medicare card and the video shows how easy it is to go confidential
on your health records and your sexual health consultations that is in a
Victorian Education Department website a video and it's common more and more
common in modern day education toolkits that resource has actually been
available since May 2016 on that particular website and meanwhile those
pushing the gender agenda regularly promote the narrative that that that
that children who are suffering gender dysphoria may not be properly understood
by their parents their families might not they might feel like they belong but
of course there's a peer group to whom they belong there's this again
distancing particularly around gender issues or you can see this spilling over
into what I talked about last week which is the issue of conversion therapy laws
which could well say that a non affirming parents could lose custody of
their children you know a child who goes to school where all this stuff is put
out there and goes to the school counselor and is talked to about gender
issues or has activist groups coming in saying explore experiment discover as
they always do know if fourteen-year-old Harry goes home to dad and says look
we're thinking about putting me in a dress and I've got gender issues and dad
says bad ideas son at the moment let's wait to see that non affirming parent
under gender conversion proposals the more radical ones which by the way this
is all written down could lose custody of their child this is the issue and you
know dr. Pinsky are saying the chair of the IRAC GP expert committee says this
again which sounds fairly benign says but when you have dysfunctional families
and children who are vulnerable the law needs to provide them with protection
well ok fair enough but what happens when a child is deemed
vulnerable because they want to change genders but their parents prefer that
they didn't do you know I think the times coming not that far away when we
are going to find out Joe Peter Hitchens tells a really
instructive story a very fascinating story in a recent interview he actually
lived in Moscow in 1991 in the aftermath of Soviet Russia in fact the culture and
the accoutrements of Soviet socialism was still around when he was there and
the secret police everywhere and all sorts he said it was terribly depressing
but you know he talks about the fact that there was this statue in the local
park and children from the various schools were brought in procession to
that statue to almost revere it they actually sang hymns to it and recited
poems and this kind of thing and you know it was because that was a statue of
Pavlik Morris off who was a child who the legend said it's probably not true
but the legend said that he was killed by his grandfather because he outed his
parents to the state and he was therefore a martyr and you know Peter
Hitchens says that feature of the society that he saw the oppression the
tyranny that he saw that feature to invade and deconstruct and destroy
family life particularly to put distance between a parent and a child he says
that's the most concerning trend that he sees played out in that time and he says
increasingly played out in the West today in fact the UK High Court this
isn't just people like it people like Peter Hitchens the UK High Court said
exactly this when it struck down what was called a named person scheme in
Scotland because it was appointing a non-family Guardian to sort of have
certain input into a child's life and they said no you can't do that because
the first mark of a totalitarian society is to distance children from their
parents and you know here I see just the seeds of a few really worrying trends
the state we'll have power where the parent has no
power when will the child's health record be
hidden from a parent will the state decides you know when will a child be
taught certain things through the Education Department about sexual
identity and gender expression or or even how to hide their medical records
from their parents or the state decides you know when will the when will a child
be deemed vulnerable such that they preferred gender identity or sexual
expression to me a questioning of that well the mere fact that it won't be
celebrated in the home that is cause for a child to be removed from parents well
the state decides many will think that this is a little bit of scare mongering
it isn't all the people who fully believe in all of these things well
placed in key policy roles today and they're just waiting for the right
climate and the right opportunities to push the agenda forward
bit by bit especially the Victorian Education Department but others as well
this is not a joke it's very very serious and that's why we continue to
advocate for parents rights in regards to raising their children in accordance
with their moral and religious beliefs because of course children if we can no
longer instruct them in the ways of what's right and according to a
Christian faith and of course there'll be a very dark Society indeed