Prime Minister: Labor is ‘obsessed’ with gender politics
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has described the Labor Party as being “obsessed” with gender after draft policy documents detail a push to remove gender from birth certificates and passports. READ THE FULL DOCUMENT.
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PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has described the Labor Party as being “obsessed” with gender after revelations draft policy documents detail a push to remove gender from birth certificates and passports.
The Daily Telegraph revealed today that Labor was considering implementing gender neutral identity documents and discussions about allowing transgender prisoners to pick their facilities.
“This is the problem with Labor, obsessed with nonsense like removing gender from birth certificates rather than lower electricity prices, reducing tax for hardworking families and small businesses,” Mr Morrison said today.
“A Liberal National Government will never remove gender from birth certificates, licenses and passports — who are Labor kidding? Get real.”
Labor’s plan was details in a 224 page draft policy document which will form the foundation of discussion at the party’s national conference in December.
The document outlines plans to reform the prison system saying “persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics” should be able to choose “the facilities in which they are placed.
It also argued that sporting organisations should not be allowed to turn away people who identify as women regardless of their biological sex.
Daily Telegraph columnist Miranda Devine described document as an “expression of Labor’s values and beliefs”.
It includes:
■ 64 mentions of “sexual orientation”
■ 59 mentions of “intersex”
■ 2 of “LGBTI”
■ 36 of “transgender”
■ 33 of “bisexual”
■ 31 of “lesbian”
■ 29 of “gay”
■ Several mentions of transphobia, biphobia and homophobia.
■ “Gender” gets 138 mentions including 19 mentions of “gender identity” and five of “gender pay gap”.
■ Diversity gets 27 mentions, including Labor’s promise to adopt a “50 per cent gender diversity target for government boards to be achieved within the first term of a Labor government.”
■ There are 42 mentions of “identity”, appropriately enough.
In comparison:
■ “Dignity of work” appears just once.
■ “Housing affordability” appears 10 times.
■ “Poverty” appears 25 times
■ “Homelessness” gets 43 mentions.
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