UPDATE! We FINALLY get to see what is in the mystery bills
Alex Greenwich MP will introduce three ‘equality’ bills:
- Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023
- Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2023
- Variation in Sex Characteristics (Restricted Medical Treatment) Bill 2023
Mr Greenwich MP has not made the full text of these bills available to the public for scrutiny. We can learn from similar bills that have been introduced in other Australian states, and from statements made Mr Greenwich has made in the media.
Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023
This bill will allow anyone – male or female – to change the sex recorded on their birth certificate for an administrative fee.
Meet Bob
Bob is a 47 year old man who is very sporty – he swims & plays footy. On the surface Bob looks like a typical bloke and even wears a beard.
Deep down, Bob feels that he is really a woman. So Bob goes online and fills in a form to change his recorded sex. He does not need to tell anyone, or visit a doctor.
In fact Bob does not wish to medically transition. He continues to wear what he is most comfortable in – jeans and t-shirts, and keeps his beard.
He is legally entitled to use female toilets at work, even if his coworkers are uncomfortable with him there.
After work he visits a pool and changes in the female change rooms where little girls are showering naked. A mother complains but is told that Bob is legally female and has a right to be in this female-only space.
Queensland allows children aged 12 and over to change their sex descriptor and order a new birth certificate without parental consent. In Victoria you can change your recorded sex annually.
Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2023
We all know that “conversion therapy” for sexual orientation does not work.
The most accurate predictor of whether a young person will grow up to be lesbian or gay is identifying with behaviours and dressing like the opposite sex. Girls who are ‘tomboys’ may grow up to be lesbians. Boys who are effeminate may grow up to be gay. There’s nothing wrong with being lesbian or gay.
Increasing numbers of children who identify with aspects of the opposite sex are being channelled into gender clinics. Here they are given social and psychological treatments encouraging them to adopt an opposite-sex persona.
After puberty starts, these children will be given puberty-blocking medications and put on a pathway that leads to opposite-sex hormones and potentially surgery.
This practice converts future lesbians and gays into ersatz “straights”. It is called “Gender Affirmation” and it is effectively gay conversion therapy.
Yes, we should end gay conversion therapy. But we should not allow it under another name – gender affirmation.
A consultation by NSW Government indicates that this bill will be modelled on similar legislation introduced in Victoria.
Meet Ruby
Ruby is a 10 year old male child. He likes wearing dresses and has long hair. Ruby uses a ‘girly’ name (his official name is Ryan).
The gender clinic advised Ruby’s parents to affirm Ruby’s belief that he is a girl.
Ruby’s parents tell everyone he is a girl and he uses female-only toilets at school, wears the girl’s uniform and goes to sleep-overs with girls.
When Ruby starts puberty, he will be given an experimental drug called ‘Lupron’ that will prevent development of his healthy brain, bones, and sex organs. It is likely that Ruby will grow up to be infertile and never experience sexual functioning when he reaches adulthood.