{"id":15204,"date":"2020-08-25T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T09:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/?p=15204"},"modified":"2020-09-03T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:12:37","slug":"australia-politician-wants-to-take-transkids-away-from-their-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/australia-politician-wants-to-take-transkids-away-from-their-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia: Politician wants to take Trans*Kids away from their parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news, bad news from Down Under: Queensland became the first state in Australia to ban conversion processes – while Australia’s Senator Pauline Hanson incited against parents of transgender children and announced that they should be taken away from their parents.\u00a0\u00a0Hanson is Senator for Queensland and co-founder and leader of the extreme right-wing One Nation party. Hanson and her party are considered right-wing populists.<\/p>\n

The good news first: On August 13th, Queensland declared in a historic vote as the first state of Australia that conversion procedures are an inhumane practice and should be banned. Anyone who opposes the ban can expect up to a year in prison – if the patient is underage, it can even be a year and a half.<\/p>\n

However, this does not please everyone. In a discussion during the vote, Senator Pauline Hanson (66) made deeply disturbing remarks.<\/p>\n

“Confusing kids and going to the doctor and parent’s saying ‘Look, my four-year-old they really can’t identify, and we want to change their sex. You are bloody idiots, how can a kid at four years old know if they want to be male or if they actually want to be a girl”<\/p>\n

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Although Hanson, as she shows, has no idea about the subject, she uses her platform to run dangerous smear campaigns against parents and families of transgender children:<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s more to this and these parents need their heads read or the kids taken off them, because they want to change their sex because the kid<\/span>\u00a0ha<\/span>s gone and played with a doll.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor does Hanson understand the term “queer”, as she explains in the interview:<\/p>\n

“The Q is for queer, and I asked the question in parliament \u2013 well what is queer? I have no understanding, I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m from the old school, I\u2019m sick of all these letters. There are about 37 or 39 different categories.”<\/p>\n

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MEP supports his two transgender children<\/h2>\n

But fortunately, there is another way: The Australian politician and member of parliament from West Victoria, Andy Meddick, publicly supports his two transgender children, setting an important counter-example to Hanson’s tirades. Meddick showed on Twitter how to be a proud parent of Trans*Kids. He wrote:<\/p>\n

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Birth announcement:<\/p>\n

Our eldest Kielan has been on a unique and personal journey that (with permission of course) I'm now proud to share with you all. <\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to announce the arrival of my daughter Kielan, aged 25 years.<\/p>\n

Both of our children are trans, and both are perfect. pic.twitter.com\/WLvb9dhtgf<\/a><\/p>\n

— Andy Meddick MP (@AndyMeddickMP) August 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n