I don't think that I'm alone when I say that it is breathtaking how
rapidly the transgender movement has gained mainstream acceptance in our
society the graphic on the slide at the moment is from the Safe Schools material
and it's an indication of the reach into our schools you can see that queer
theory affects policies regarding toilets and change rooms school uniforms
sports and physical education, school events, school camps, school documents and
school records our schools are places where children are being indoctrinated
into a postmodern and post truth view of gender and sexuality where
heteronormativity is painted as oppressive, traditional scientific
assumptions of identifying as a gender you were born with is rapidly being
replaced with a new vision of humanity where everyone is somewhat queer gender
and sexual orientation is presented as being on a spectrum and in a strange
juxtaposition of reality queer theory proponents teach that a person's sexual
orientation who they are attracted to in their mind is fixed but their physical
body is not . Queer theory and our schools is all pervasive when Queensland's
Education Department information literature speaks of diversity in
Queensland schools they are not referring to a broad understanding of
diversity but rather simply as they explained in their document they are
referring to gender and sexual diversity the parental outrage of the ill named
Safe Schools program has meant that our government has not continued funding the
program here in Queensland after the federal funding ceased and you are all
actually to be congratulated for your advocacy thank you for that however as
you see on the screen school support and teacher training remains available free
of charge for schools by the student well-being hub schools do not need to
register for to use the material which makes it difficult for parents to know
the extent to which gender fluid and LGBTI ideology is being taught in their
child's classroom particularly as the program is designed for inclusion in
every area of the curriculum but in this radical new epoch parents are no longer
shown respect anyway as the moral guardians of
their children in fact the Safe Schools resource makes it clear that children
wanting to transition gender do not require their parents support if it is
not forthcoming these graphics are straight from the Queensland website our
children are being subjected to the most diabolical and confusing experiment and
parents are actually being left out of the equation. The graphic now on the
screen is straight from the Safe Schools worksheet students as young as 12 are
asked to indicate on the line who they love like and hook up with towards F if
they enjoy being with girls and towards M if they prefer being with boys this
graph is then given as an example and in the fine print which you wouldn't be
able to read necessarily but it's on the website the graph has given an example
and students are told that if this spectrum had been completed by a girl
she might be a lesbian but I would say to you this is simply a young girl
saying that she likes to be with her girlfriends a heteronormative worldview
was increasingly being frowned upon and even blamed for all manner of
discrimination against people who identify as LGBTI the safe schools
material goes so far as to maintain that to ask new parents whether their baby is
a boy or a girl is to reinforce heteronormativity and so should be
avoided the Safe Schools material suggests painting rainbow crossings
outside schools putting special stickers on teacher's office windows or drawers
if they are LGBTI allies posting sexual and gender diverse pictures and banners
in school corridors as well as messages welcoming LGBTI people in the school
entrance or reception area also stocking library with books featuring same-sex
attracted intersex and gender diverse characters and avoiding dividing up the
class into boys and girls. As Ryan has mentioned the gender bread person well
despite this program being banned in New South Wales it is being taught to
Queensland students this year telling them that their gender is flexible that
everyone is on a spectrum and can fluctuate between genders during a
typical day the stereotyping presented by the author of this program is just
absolutely incredible I personally find it almost hard to
believe but I've actually seen the handouts. Maleness for instance is
revealed by eating like a Viking whilst typical female traits and I didn't see
any one of you women doing this when you came in tonight but according to the
genderbread person female traits include prowling skipping playfully placing
items of clothing out to wear and pleading with a partner for help to
decide what to wear. Our ABC's reading next program is an educational resource
used in many of our Queensland schools within the program which has actually
got many excellent resources in the program but they have a book for
children to read about their gender it is designed this book has been
designed for children who are aged 7 to 13 years old and it asks what is gender
identity and it answers the question gender identity usually means the sense
of belonging that a person feels to the male or female sex whether you identify
yourself as a male or female the book goes further and has a cartoon figure
telling the children your gender identity is how you see yourself as
either male or female. This is to seven-year-old children and then
on a further page the sense of belonging to the male or female gender is not all
due to genetics it is also due to the influence of the family culture and your
life experiences. Gender identity can seem complex especially for people who
should not strongly feel male or female but it's not just in our schools.
In Queensland here we've just witnessed the Commonwealth Games at the Gold Coast and
even in this arena we were not free from the madness of gender ideology Gavin
Hubbard has competed for New Zealand in weightlifting previously in fact he set
the New Zealand junior record and in 2012 he was appointed to the position of
executive office of Olympic weightlifting New Zealand but five years
ago Hubbard transitioned to identify as a female and following that at the 2017
Australian International and Australian Open in Melbourne Hubbard competed as a
female at the heaviest 90 kilogram Plus category and he won gold
prior to the Gold Coast games Australia and several other Federations
claimed Hubbard had an unfair advantage Australian Weightlifting Federation
chief executive Michael Keelan called for Hubbard to be banned from competing
saying this 'Ultimately it is our strong view that weightlifting has always been
a gender specific sport male and female in our respectful view the current
criteria has the potential to to devalue women's weightlifting and discourage
female born athletes from pursuing the sport at an elite level in the future'
the Samoan weightlifting head coach Jerry Wallwork told the ABC this
'A man is a man and a woman is a woman' he went on to say 'In the past Laurel
Hubbard used to be a male champion weightlifter the strength is still there
and I think it's very unfair and for all females it's unfair it's just very
unfair.' I would say it's not only unfair it's ridiculous but we are being kind of
painted into a corner are we not because we cannot on the one hand teach children
that gender is a social construct that fluctuates and is changeable and then
maintained binary male and female roles in sport and so Hubbard competed as a
woman at the Gold Coast games leading the field until withdrawing after
injuring an elbow. When a child is born it's very likely that the first words
heard are it's a boy or it's a girl and that information along with the days and
parents names are recorded on a person's birth certificate
however our government is currently considering changing birth and death
certificates to be a fluid document you may have seen the calls for submissions
just recently the changes they are looking at introducing will potentially
allow parents to register their child's sex as non-binary and allow
self-identification so that anyone can change the official document of the
record of their birth to register a gender or non gender of their choice. If
implemented the official document of our birth used widely for identification and
verification will be open to that be distorted or falsified which seriously
compromises actually the very reason to have the document in the first place
This new sexual revolution has been even in two toddlers' minds. Instead of
guiding protecting caring for and instructing our children including
giving them boundaries to keep them safe what we are effectively doing is telling
our children that they are a project that they have to figure out for
themselves. The new normal encourages children to choose their own preferred
personal pronoun it's too much despite the fact that the majority of children
do not remain confused about gender long term, our government is participating in
destructive therapy for children allowing them to have puberty blockers
with serious side effects including infertility and our health professionals
perform plastic surgery on gender disphoric teenagers, amputating healthy
body parts. We must unite to jam our spoke into the wheel of this injustice
and that is exactly what it is we are talking about our children's birthright
and so we will not give up we will roll up our sleeves we will pray we will act
we will humble ourselves we will work together we will organise we will use
whatever influence we have to leverage for justice and in the end I believe we
will prevail because nothing else is even thinkable and tell me how we cannot
be on the right side of history. Thank you very much