The struggle with gender dysphoria and equality is real. As a friend of multiple transgender people, I can confirm that the transgender community needs as much support with their identities as they can get. Trans-rights and Trans-lives matter, no matter your race or background! ✊️✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🤍💙🩷💙🤍
As I said in my previous comment, some of my closest friends are LGBTQIA+, or allies of said community. So if the Trumpet of Patriots has a problem with the LGBTQIA+ community, they have a problem with my friends, and by extension, they have a problem with me. And I promise you, you do not want a problem with me. Also, I don't like how they're bringing some of Trump's ideals into Australia. It sickens me and many others to think of Trump's racist, sexist, homophobic ideals into our country.
My parents are queer and married. My mum has suffered a lifetime of extreme abuse from straight hetero men, and has now found true happiness and love within her partner. Clive and Trumps ideals destroy the happiness people like my mum have suffered for so long to find. What kind of individual is fit to be in government - let alone run a country, by implementing policies and laws driven by hate and violence?
Fear mongering about trans people is leading to politicians and governments to meddle in decisions that should be made between the child, their parents/guardians, and medical experts. When I kid, we simply didn't know what trans even was. Trans kids struggled alone often all the way into adulthood before before learning how they felt had a name. It was a different problem. Whether not a child should have trans related care should be left up to medical expects on a case by case basis based on rigorous psychological evaluation. An outright ban not only puts children struggling with gender dysphoria at increased risk of suicide, but can also set them back behind their peers. Instead of building and planning a future, they will be forced to endure a wrong puberty and spend all their energy struggling to cope with that.
I myself am trans and did not have the ability to transition until I was 23. The time I spent struggling socially and trying to cope with gender dysphoria forced me miss out many important networking opportunities which are essential for young people starting their careers. This kind of ban of discriminates against trans people and says that it is more important that cisgender children be protected against the possibility a mistake being made than it is for transgender kids to have access to the life-saving care they will need.
Every person should be allowed to have care they need. Trans kids don't need to be told by people who don't even understand them, that they don't matter. It's not okay.
It's cruel for society to insist that some patients live with the lifelong trauma and unyielding social barriers just because of they're not wealthy enough to afford medical treatment to heal their physical deformities.
The most basic ethos of medicine is grounded in healing anyone that needs it. It would be a travesty to the calling if policy is allowed to continue to compromise the vital role of doctors in improving the welfare of these people's lives.
Trans people deserve healthcare that is judgement free and supportive of their personal journeys. It is devastating that gympie is so lacking in trans-specific medical support, and the stories I have heard about prejudice and bigotry that these poor people have gone through just trying to get bare minimum healthcare disgusts me. We NEED to do better Gympie.
This commuinity has always existed, now more than ever we must have solidarity and respect for one another. It's easy to be apathetic, but there are people that desperately need help and support. As human beings that live on this earth we must do what we can to support and care for one-another. It costs nothing to simply be kind and stand up for others.