Peta Credlin: Parents have every right to be angry at trans activism

Four-year-olds don’t need identity politics - parents deserve a government that draws a line on preschools that demand pronouns, writes Peta Credlin.

During the week on Sky News, I interviewed two mums who’d taken their four-year-olds out of Queensland government preschools after getting official letters demanding that they nominate their child’s preferred pronouns.

Are we serious? A kid that can’t even write his or her name is supposed to be a “them” or a “they”?

In response to queries, the Queensland LNP government said that this was the doing of the “independent” Education Department at the insistence of the former Labor government.

Not good enough, LNP – you can’t wash your hands of this issue. You’re the government, and parents are right to be angry that trans-activism is being pushed at their little ones. After all, what’s the point of electing a government if things are run by unaccountable bureaucrats?

As it happens, the Queensland Education Department is very proud of the fact that it’s just achieved “platinum” status in the Australian Workforce Equality Index, as an LGBTQ+ employer, with its website inviting people to watch its LGBTQ+ inclusion video.

A kid that can’t even write his or her name is supposed to be a “them” or a “they”? Picture: iStock

The Index is run by ACON, originally the AIDS Council of NSW and now the Australian equivalent of the UK’s Stonewall. And, like Stonewall, a body once concerned with gay rights, ACON is now at the forefront of pushing the radical trans agenda with business, government departments and, particularly, among young people.

In order to achieve gold or platinum status, enterprises must affiliate to ACON, with “principal partners” paying this trans-inclusive body some $12,000 a year. According to its website, ACON is a charity with an annual income of almost $28m. Remarkably, 72 per cent of this revenue comes from government – meaning you, of course.

I’m an admirer of the government in Queensland because of the stand it has taken to ban puberty blockers for minors, with many experts agreeing that so-called gender-affirming care risks harming our children.

But rather than wait to deal with mixed-up kids in later years, how about we stop the trans-adulation when they are in preschool?

This is exactly the kind of destructive brainwashing that LNP voters expect their government to fix.

THUMBS UP

King Charles for stripping his brother, Andrew, of his birthright titles can’t have been easy but was the tough and honourable thing to do.

THUMBS DOWN

British rugby union authorities for surrendering to trans activism and demanding that, for men’s rugby, that “man of the match” become the “player of the match”.

Originally published as Peta Credlin: Parents have every right to be angry at trans activism