Former senator Jacqui Lambie slammed over anti-transgender ‘I’m A Celeb’ rant
Jacqui Lambie has been criticised over comments the former senator made about transgender Australians on reality show聽I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! Australia.
The Tasmanian, who entered the Senate as part of Clive Palmer’s Palmer United Party, quit parliament in 2017 after it was revealed she held a dual citizenship.
In a political discussion with cast mate Dermott Brereton, Lambie took Brereton’s mention of the Greens as an opportunity to rail against rights for transgender Australians, .
鈥淣ow we鈥檙e into moving Australia Day, we鈥檙e into transgender and making sure we can change their fucking birth certificates,” Lambie said.
“Stupid Tasmania, they did that just before Christmas time.”
Lambie followed up by declaring, “When you are born, you鈥檙e either a male or a female.”
“Or you鈥檙e born a hermaphrodite,” said Brereton, a former AFL player, using a word many – though not all – intersex people deem to be stigmatising and offensive.
Lambie pressed on discussing birth certificates, calling them “a true document of the time that you are born, if you are male or female. Very simple.”
In late 2018, as well as remove the requirement that trans people undergo surgery before being allowed to change the gender on their birth certificate, among other changes.
The reforms have yet to pass Tasmania’s Upper House.
At the time, Prime Minister Scott Morrison – which at one stage included the removal of gender markers from Tasmanian birth certificates altogether – as “ridiculous”.
Lambie also admitted that her mother had convinced her to go on the Network 10 reality show to reestablish her platform before another jaunt at politics.
鈥淓ven my mum said it, 鈥榊ou need to suck it up Jacqui and you need to go on there, you can鈥檛 afford the advertising鈥�,” she said.
No you are wrong! You need to learn some science about Intersex and Trans people from politicians who don鈥檛 have a clue!
鈥� Diversity ACT (@DiversityACT)
Sometimes I like Jacqui Lambie and then she comes out and says awful things about marginalised people and then I鈥檓 like, nope.
鈥� Carly Findlay (@carlyfindlay)
Well Jacqui Lambie got to show Australia who she really is – an unpleasant sore loser and boganic bad sport with outdated views on transgender issues and immigration. Bye
鈥� cameron adams (@cameron_adams)
Following the postal survey in 2017, .
鈥淭here is still 30 per cent of those Australians that lost out on that vote and they are feeling the hurt from that.聽I don鈥檛 hear anyone talking about that which I find quite disturbing,” she said.
鈥淗ow long are these people going to have to go through more pain? They鈥檝e lost. They鈥檙e feeling the pain. How much longer do they have to feel more pain?鈥�
The Australian public eliminated Lambie from the show last night, placing third-last in the reality series.
Correction: this story has been updated to clarify that Tasmania’s transgender reforms are still in the legislative process and have not yet been made law. A previous version of this story suggested the reforms were already instated.
Latham and Lambie. Both populist. Both former politicians, both left politics with their tails between their legs. Both hoping to get re-elected for the perks and taxpayer funded salary. Both largely unemployable in the real world it seems, Lambie resorts to reality tv while Latham got sacked from so many media gigs he’s now working for the only guy who won’t sack him: he’s now self-employed. Both attention whores. Both very obsessed with trans folks and I don’t get it.
To the extent they have a supporter base, those folks are mainstream anti-political types often in rural environments living pretty simple lives. Trans issues don’t affect them. They don’t know trans folks, they aren’t affected, surely they’d rather vote for someone talking about their lives?
I sincerely hope (and this is a credible possibility) that NSW One Nation voters have enough sense and humour to bypass Latham and vote for the number 2 One Nation candidate instead. He offers them nothing but bitching about progressives and ignoring reality, and he deserves to be caught out by the folks he’s hoping to represent.
Another classic rant from yet another classic religious nut. Enough said.
Ms Lambi sounds to me like she established her political opinions/beliefs as a seven year old while sitting under a table listening to drunk bigots discussing politics at a dinner party in the 70’s.
Jacqui Lambie is a reminder to us all that sometimes a ditz can be amusing – but long after you stop laughing you realise she’s still a ditz, has always been a ditz and will always be so. The only thing more stupid than a ditz is another ditz who would vote her into public office.