Comments on: Victorian Liberal MP Louise Staley under fire for transphobic comments

By: Nina P

Nina P — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 19:51:51 +0000

She’s a conservative, Lisa. Do you even know what “TERF” means or do you just lob it at any woman who doesn’t drink the kool aid?

By: Paul Mitchell of Forbes NSW

Paul Mitchell of Forbes NSW — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:08:45 +0000

Labor, Greens and the Sex Party support the birth cirtificate reforms bill, but it still is 2 votes short to pass the upper house! The LNP oppose these reforms as expected – so were are the missing 2 votes going to come from? The bill appears doomed…

l trans* people and intersex people for far too long have been waiting for recognition for years now!

This bill needs to pass into law immedietly!

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:55:53 +0000

How about we just delete gender off the birth certificate altogether? It used to be a form of identification to verify people in the event of their death etc. Now gender is such a fluid concept, and we have other means of identifying people. Gender, like marriage is now a political tool and has lost the focus of its original intent in our society. So if we can delete the role of gender, and delete the traditional institution of marriage we will get the society so many seem intent on getting….whatever that may look like.

I wonder what societal norm will be the next victim?

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:42:23 +0000

She’s looking at things from a purely simplistic outwardly genital based perspective, I don’t think she can fathom past her own experience, if how ever you feel with in your self energies not attributed as being ‘normally masculine or feminine’ in nature do you really need surgery or documentation to accommodate those energies with in your self comfortably ? I guess some feel they do, does documentation mean a relationship will last ? people on either sides of perceived arguments seem to have their own theocratic well rehearsed stances to shove down every one else’s throats, let’s leave the politics & religion out of it just see what the science shows us and go from there

By: Lisa Mullin

Lisa Mullin — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 00:59:15 +0000

Standard TERF devoid of all facts argument which is sly as well.

If those who have not had GRS are not accepted it means that all trans kids and adolescents (too young to have GRS or cannot yet afford it) cannot legally transition. This leaves them open to discrimination and prejudice at school, university, workplace etc.

Then there are those who cannot afford it (no medicare or public hospital support after all) and those who have medical conditions that do not allow it.

Then there are trans men. What criteria do you set for them to be ‘allowed’?
Lower surgery (to construct a penis) Is insanely expensive, only done in a few places in the world and doesn’t work very well at this time.
So are they ALL automatically excluded because they cannot have GRS?

Note as usual (and as all TERFs do) no mention of trans men is made, despite that there are now similar numbers of them as there are trans women.

As I said a sly way of excluding huge numbers of trans women and maybe all trans men.

By: Bree bowen

Bree bowen — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:59:23 +0000

Hey i have no problem with what shes saying “if” she wants to make sexual reassignment surgery free for australia trans . When the price of living is so expensive its very hard to find a spare 30-50k for the surgery. Ive been mtf trans for 4.5yrs but if i had the spare 30-50k id do it today . Sweden i have a trans friend she had her srs done by the government at no cost to her the moment she qualified for the surgery. She cannot make comments like that when shes on 200k a yr plus . Unless i was to resort to prositution i dont see me being able to afford it for atleast another 4yrs