Peta Credlin: Gender activists turn attention to three-year-olds

When we strip people of their distinctive characteristics, we demean them, and we diminish our common humanity, writes Peta Credlin.

Late last week, federal Health Minister Greg Hunt restored “mothers” and “women” to his department’s guide on Covid and pregnancy, that had previously been revised to turn “pregnant women” into “people who are pregnant” to avoid offending the militant trans lobby.

Good on Greg Hunt for putting his foot down and pulling the bureaucrats into line – but it shouldn’t have taken an editorial on my Sky show and a column in The Australian for biological reality to have been acknowledged in a Health Department document.

Today is Father’s Day. How ridiculous would it be to call it “Sperm Donor’s Day” but if the militant activists who want to turn women into “people who menstruate”
have their way, that’s where it would go.

Fathers are special. They give strength and protection to their children and, at their best, are role models of courage, loyalty, and industry.

Likewise, mothers are special. A mother’s love is the one thing in this uncertain world that we can most rely on.

Health Minister Greg Hunt. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Gary Ramage

When we strip people of their distinctive characteristics, we demean them, and we diminish our common humanity.

But just because common sense has had a win, don’t think that the march of the social engineers has somehow gone into reverse.

Last week, it was also revealed that the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian had issued official advice that children as young as three should be asked which gender pronouns they preferred to use. Honestly, inflicting adult angst on three-year-olds is surely its own form of child abuse.

Called “Empowerment and Participation”, the guide says that adults looking after children aged between three and eight should not “assume” their gender identity.

“Don’t assume a child’s gender identity. Ask for their preferred pronouns and respectfully use them,” the guide reads.

Only someone who has never been close to children, or who has let ideology trump instinct, could expect adults to begin a relationship that way without leaving the child confused and bewildered.

This should be fixed too, and pronto. But here’s the problem – the Office of the Children’s Guardian is an “independent statutory authority”. That means, in effect, that it’s accountable to no one except the NSW parliament as a whole and there’s no way that legislation is going to be changed.

Is it any wonder voters feel disempowered?

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