Retired historian. Disillusioned founding member of Queensland and Australian Greens, keen to revive a politics of hope.

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The entire premise of ā€˜gender transition’ is a fraud. After cross-sex hormones and surgery, the share of young Finns needing psychiatric care went from 19% to 49%! Finland tracked every young person sent to its gender clinics, for up to 25 years. Among those given cross-sex hormones or surgery, 19.2% had needed specialist psychiatric care before their first clinic visit. After their last procedure, 48.9% did. Their matched peers stayed flat. We were told cross-sex hormones and surgery would fix these young people's mental health. Finland checked. After the drugs and the surgery, far more of them needed psychiatric care, not fewer. What Finland found Finland sends every young person who wants a medical "gender reassignment" to one of two university hospital clinics, in Helsinki and Tampere. Researchers led by Dr. Sami-Matti Ruuska, an adolescent psychiatrist, and Prof. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, a professor of adolescent psychiatry at Tampere University, pulled the national health records for every one of them. That's 2,083 people under 23 who went to those clinics between 1996 and 2019. Each was matched with eight people of the same birth year and hometown, 16,643 in all. Some were followed for up to 25 years. The new numbers Critics claimed the first analysis might have counted people who hadn't had their drugs or surgery yet. So in September the authors ran it again, starting the clock only after each person's last step: cross-sex hormones, breast removal, or genital surgery. •Before their first gender-clinic visit, 19.2% had needed specialist psychiatric care. •At some point after their last procedure, 48.9% did. •Their matched peers, counted from the same dates, went from 14.4% to 13.2%. After their last procedure, these young people were about six times as likely as the general population to need specialist psychiatric care. That held for both males and females. billboardchris.com/news/2026…
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#MakeLaborSaneAgain #LaborStopLosingTheLeft #FixTheSDA Why on earth does the ā€œlived experienceā€ of women and girls not matter to you @AlboMP ?
The Prime Minister’s view on MALES IN FEMALE SPORTS Whatever the sporting codes say it is! šŸ‰āš½ļøšŸ @AlboMP told Piers Morgan that biological males in female sport ā€œaren’t front and centreā€, adding that none of these issues ever came up when his son played junior soccer, Australian rules and cricket, and that sporting codes should simply ā€œdeal with it.ā€ They haven’t. šŸ™…ā€ā™€ļøšŸ™…ā€ā™€ļø At both community and elite levels, @AFL , @FootballAUS and @CricketAus have created pathways for biological males to compete in female categories, prioritising gender identity over female fairness and safety. šŸ„‡šŸƒā€ā™€ļø These policies follow frameworks set by the Sex Discrimination Act and @AusHumanRights guidelines. Minister for Sport Anika Wells MP has reinforced this approach, indicating under @ausport guidance that there ā€œaren’t classesā€ and each sport must be assessed individually rather than confirming a clear exemption for female-only categories. 🧬 When both the Prime Minister and the Minister for Sport deflect, girls and women lose fair and safe competition. Women’s Rights Network Australia continues to call for the restoration of sex-based rights in sport. #FixTheSDA #SaveWomensSports šŸ’œšŸ¤šŸ’š
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This brave French woman is trying to do at this late stage what the organisers of the protests in France should have done long ago….insist on strict nonviolence. Instead the protests about education funding went ahead with violent rhetoric, abuse of the police and the inevitable happened….the thugs and extremists took over. Protest is an integral part of democracy but organisers have to show responsibility. I have organised many protests….none were violent in any way. x.com/LQuentin_/status/21115…
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When a man takes part in a race for girls, the entire purpose of the race becomes validating that male's ego, using girls as props. It is no longer fair, the final positions aren't representative, the race might as well not take place - but at least the man gets what he wants.
BREAKING: Nearly half of the girls cross-country team in Camas, Washington, just forfeited their race. They refused to compete against a boy. This is bravery. Vote YES on I-638 to stand with them. Video: @KnownHeretic
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So many disturbing news reports of people with deep mental health issues not receiving treatment because they have instead been affirmed as trans. There is nothing kind about TIQ movement
In a case that's received little media attention, a cross-dressing teacher has been found guilty of making credible threats to murder his own pupils, and then even eat one. Hadyn Dollery, who goes by the name 'Sophie', faces 25 years in jail. northernvirginiamag.com/news…
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Bill Maher just awarded J.K. Rowling the Cojones Lifetime Achievement Award for refusing to bow to public pressure over her views on biological sex. Bill Maher says Rowling is famous for being endlessly vilified for refusing to cow-tow to the opinion that a biological woman and a trans woman are indistinguishable. Bill Maher: ā€œI’m sorry you had to hear that kids feel free to call a suicide hotline or post an angry TikTok.ā€
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She spoke at CASC conference in Adelaide and was very good
UCL professor Sallie Baxendale, who has faced personal abuse and smear campaigns after she raised concerns over the impact of puberty blockers on young people’s brains, has been shortlisted for the Maddox Prize for ā€œstanding up for scienceā€. @jgro_the reports #science #research #MaddoxPrize timeshighereducation.com/new…
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UCL professor Sallie Baxendale, who has faced personal abuse and smear campaigns after she raised concerns over the impact of puberty blockers on young people’s brains, has been shortlisted for the Maddox Prize for ā€œstanding up for scienceā€. @jgro_the reports #science #research #MaddoxPrize timeshighereducation.com/new…
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ā€œI’m NOT sympatheticā€ to women who want FEMALE-ONLY businesses. Small Business Minister Anne Aly has made her position clear. 🤯 This is not ok! šŸ™…ā€ā™€ļø When asked about the Giggle for Girls (not a dating appšŸ™„) Federal Court outcome and proposals to define biological sex in the Sex Discrimination Act, so women can run female-only businesses, Aly refused to engage. šŸ˜‘ Instead, insisting ā€œthere are much more important things to talk about,ā€ waved the issue of single-sex spaces aside, and declared herself unsympathetic to any argument that does not treat every person the same ā€œregardless of gender.ā€ 🚻 Aly talks about equality for everyone, yet it is well established that equality for women requires the right to female-only spaces. Without the ability to exclude males, women lose privacy, safety, fairness and dignity in the very places created for them. By insisting we are all the same, Aly has effectively decided that women do not need, and should not have those spaces. 🫢 Women who want the right to run female-only businesses are not ā€œfar right.ā€ They are women who simply want the law to recognise that sex is real and that female-only spaces matter. Aly’s response treats that basic request as unworthy of serious discussion. 😤 Women who have built businesses for women are already paying the price under the current law. They are forced into court, face death threats, and carry the financial and personal cost of defending the right to operate female-only spaces. The Minister for Small Business has now confirmed she has no interest in fixing it. #FixTheSDA šŸ’œšŸ¤šŸ’š
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An open letter to women—from an only gay man. We should have spoken up sooner. #ProtectWomen #WomensSpaces #SexBasedRights
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ā€œWhen I signed the paper, I thought I could do it. I did not realize it would break my heart. The pain and emptiness I feel have been unbearable.ā€ - Cathy, Broken Bonds: Surrogate Mothers Speak Out spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/… @JenniferLahl @MelTankardReist
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A trans killer in Sweden who m—rdered his children has now legally changed his gender and name. He has been transferred to a women's prison. Paulus Abdel Shahed, now known as "Lily," was sentenced to life in prison after m—rdering two children, aged seven and eight, in 2024. Inmates at the institution have raised the alarm that Abdel Shahed, a migrant from Egypt, has been terrorizing women by walking around with a beard and exposing his penis. Reports were made that he had groped inmates, entered the shower area with other women, and even had sexual relations with one. A female inmate who made a complaint was called "transphobic" and punished with a misbehavior warning, Swedish media reports. NgoComment.com
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I’m the most disappointed & disgusted with ex sports women in positions of authority in sporting or women organisations throwing women & girls rights under the virtue signalling bus to protect their own positions; pulling the drawbridge up behind them! Shame on every one of you
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Is no one else indignant that Australia can prosecute @salltweets & @kirralieS , ie scapegoat individual women, but cannot tell the banks to absorb a card fee? Doom & gloom because govt will not regulate banks. Govt failure = econ injustice
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Absolutely devastating interview from Kieran who speaks about the gut-wrenching moment hundreds of members voted against an amendment to protect Jewish members and he knew then "it was over".
ā€˜The Green Party for millions of people will be over.’ Former Green Party politician Kieran Dams reacts to his previous party passing a motion declaring that ā€˜Zionism is racism’.
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Just this week, there has been news stories about a French woman facing prison time for knowing men cannot be women, a US woman was sexually assaulted in a women’s change room because a man was in it, and a man was charged with murdering a woman & blaming it on his gender identity. It’s Wednesday. Some days, you despair at what it will take for people to realize just how bad transgender ideology truly is. One of the worst ideas mankind has ever come up with, in a strong field of bad ideas.
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In the fall of 1999, I was 17 years old, a lesbian, and playing powderpuff football my senior year of high school. It was Regina v Marian - two all girl Catholic high schools versus one another. We beat Marian that year šŸ˜Ž If you had told that girl that one day she would spend seven years on testosterone, grow a beard, change her name, and convince herself she was supposed to live as a man, she would have thought you were completely insane. She couldn’t have predicted that she would troon out. She also couldn’t have predicted that, 26 years later, after everything that happened in between, she’d finally begin finding her way back to herself. It’s hard to look at photos where I am larping as a man. However, I want to serve as a warning to others.
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Putting people on the wrong sex hormones for their biology comes with a high price, to them, but also the NHS. I saw this first hand with the young East German girls of the 1970s & 80s. ALL are very ill, many prematurely died. Several had children with severe disabilities. šŸ˜”
Study of women taking testosterone showed: 94.1% had some form of pelvic floor dysfunction 86.7% had urinary symptoms Other issues included; storage symptoms (69.1%) sexual dysfunction (52.9%), anorectal symptoms (45.6%), and flatal incontinence (39.7%) statsforgender.org/94-of-fem…
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The Green Party acts like a law unto itself. They are an actual danger to society and should be held to account.
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen Labour MPs have reported the Green party to Sussex Police and the EHRC over its ā€˜Zionism is racism’ policy,Ā The SpectatorĀ can reveal. Zack Polanski’s party was plunged deeper into crisis this afternoon after politicians, led by former Home Office minister Mike Tapp, urged police in Brighton to examine whether events at the Green conference may have crossed into criminally actionable racial or religious hatred against Jewish people.
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