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It’s hard to know what’s worse — that Australian Museum staff allowed men wearing women’s lingerie to play with Lego alongside children, or that they had to be shamed into promising it would never happen again.

Museum management went into damage control after photos emerged of two men playing in the museum’s Lego pit, dressed in black fishnet stockings, pink boots and women’s underwear.

The photos were taken by a concerned mum on the evening of April 14 after complaints to the museum’s security staff were met with shrugs.

So Inclusive

According to a statement from the museum, security investigated the woman’s complaint but found:

“… the individuals in fancy dress were keeping to themselves and had not done anything wrong.”

Moreover:

“The Australian Museum is committed to being a safe place where everyone feels welcome.”

Right. A safe place for everyone — except for families with children.

It is amazing what organisations will now defend if they think it might enhance their progressivist woke credentials.

So enlightened. So tolerant. So maddening.

Dismissive

And the gaslighting of concerned parents — shaming them for daring to complain about something so obviously wrong — is beyond the pale.

‘Fancy dress’?

‘Keeping to themselves’?

Museum staff forgot to say that the cross-dressing men were also vaccinated and fully boosted.

‘Everyone welcome’ and inappropriately dressed for the audience and for the occasion are two completely different things. Why was that so hard for museum staff to comprehend?

Lost the Plot

It is telling that the individuals involved seemed to have no compunction about their behaviour at all. The new shame is being straight, plain-speaking, binary and non-woke.

We have gone from the police being called if a single man is seen loitering near a playground to the Australian Museum defending men dressed as women, playing with strangers’ kids.

Having defended their decision, those managing the museum’s Twitter feed began blocking people who criticised it and placed their tweets on “protected” mode so that the general public could not interact with them.

So stunning. So brave.

Museum management later belatedly announced:

“To ensure all visitors feel comfortable at future Nights at the Museum events, the brick play pit will be designated as a children’s only area.”

It’s a pity that management had to be shamed into what was a rather obvious decision.

And it’s well short of an admission that adults dressed in sexual fetish wear should never have been allowed near children in the first place.

In a world that accepts our cultural elite’s insistence that men can be women and that anyone who disagrees must be banished, our children are doomed to play in the quicksand of our own deceit.

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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report.
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