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Australia’s Victorian Labor Party is pushing pronouns on kids in public libraries.

The program ignores at least 4,733 Victorian mums and dads who petitioned the government to scrap the state’s latest salute to LGBTQism.

Packaged into Labor advancing LGBTQ+ influence in rural and regional areas, the Rainbow Libraries Toolkit was initialised in 2023 as part of the “Rainbow Ready Roadmap”.

However, the LGBTQ+ program for the re-education of public library staff wasn’t implemented until August last year.

If PRIDE flags, PRIDE marches, PRIDE month, and men potentially being assigned Medicare for mammograms weren’t enough, Labor Premier Jacinta Allan’s government paid around 14,000 dollars to “make libraries more inclusive”.

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Labor’s goal for the PRIDE Toolkit is to increase the public visibility of LGBTQ+ events, advance Queer theory, and give men dressing up as women more access to kids for “story time”.

Personal Attacks

Despite double-digit no votes, which included Moira Deeming’s no vote, McArthur’s parental rights petition was defeated 14-22.

Predictably, “love is love” Labor voted against the motion.

Just as predictable was Labor shrieking, “Debate is hate” when slamming opposition to the “voice and visibility” social engineering program.

In a fierce showdown, they accused the petition’s sponsor, conviction politician Victorian LNP shadow minister for Local Government Bev McArthur, of spreading misinformation.

Disparaging Victorians who signed the petition, Victorian Labor’s Michael Galea called the petition “disgraceful”.

From here, the Hansard records Galea accusing McArthur of “sowing division and trying to import Trump-style culture-war rubbish” into Victoria.

“There is no mention of five-year-olds in the toolkit,” he argued, reaching for nuance.

Contradicting Galea, the section “titled ‘Non-Gendered Interactions’ urges librarians not to assume primary school children’s pronouns.”

Additionally, the Toolkit asserts that,

“It is also important to recognise that, especially for young people, gender identity and sexuality can shift or evolve.

“It’s important,” the Toolkit states, “to let kids experiment.”

Not letting these facts stop him, Galea appeared to then accuse McArthur of being a “hard-right extremist, who was taking notes from the MAGA movement.”

The diatribe ended with Galea asserting an oxymoron.

He made the odd claim that the Government forcing “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs onto the community, was them defending “individual liberties”.

Social Engineering

On the offensive, Bev McArthur pushed forward, arguing that the Labor party initiative was the Allan government “doubling down on their strange fixation with drag queen story time events.”

“This toolkit is not just a quirky distraction; it is a deliberate move by Premier Allan’s government to prioritise social engineering over the real issues plaguing our state,” continued McArthur.

“Wouldn’t this expenditure be better directed at ensuring our children, regardless of their pronouns, learn how to read, write and add up?” she asked.

McArthur “fundamentally rejected the LGBTQ+ Toolkit as counterproductive nonsense, stating that it was behaviour policing dressed up as compassion.”

The program also insults librarians by inferring that they are unenlightened, ”ignorant, uncaring ogres” in need of nanny state direction.

“A library is a library,” she added.

“It should be welcoming to everyone. But that does not mean tying ourselves in knots to cater for every identity under the sun.

“Treating people differently based on subjective labels is not inclusive; it is divisive.

“Do we truly believe,” she queried, that “a five-year-old has the faintest clue about how to answer” what their preferred pronoun or sexual preference is?

To this, McArthur rightly stated that interfering with the minds of children about their sexual identity doesn’t empower kids; it harms them.

Public libraries, she concluded, in sum, should be staffed by librarians, not the LGBTQ+ forced speech police.

This is a “political weapon for ideologues to demonstrate their virtue.”

The Rainbow Libraries Toolkit is also a way for these ideologies, McArthur argued, “to identify opponents so as to label them bigoted, uncaring and unpleasant, all the while doing nothing for child welfare.”

Criticising the deceptive use of inclusion to justify the infiltration of LGBTQ+ ideology into kids’ spaces, both Family Voice and the Australian Christian Lobby urged Labor to remove the program.

Families do not need “library staff asking for their kids’ ‘preferred pronouns’, before being given pronoun badges, pins or lanyards.”

“Gender ideology is wanted,” ACL explained.

“Parents must push back against being ignored by the government.”

Characteristically blunt, Australian Binary director Kirralie Smith said the toolkit was akin to grooming.

“Children should never be exposed to sexual concepts that are reserved for adulthood,” Smith rightly asserted.

Also calling on parents to be vigilant, the Australian Christians Party echoed the concerns of education experts Dr Kevin Donnelly from the Australian Catholic University and Dr Bella d’Abrera from the Institute of Public Affairs.

Citing Donnelly and d’Abrera, ACP described Labor’s LGBTrans toolkit as a “dangerous” step towards indoctrination.

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