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The Australian Senate says ‘No’.

Australian senators — the least curious group of people on planet Earth — have voted not to inquire about gender transition treatment for children.

That the number of children enrolled in gender clinics increased ten-fold between 2014 and 2021 is of no interest to them.

That the number of children prescribed puberty blockers has increased a hundred-fold during that same period is of zero concern.

There’s nothing to see here, apparently,

Nothing at all.

Our most vulnerable citizens are being put on a gender conveyor belt and moved toward sterilisation, radical surgery and a lifetime of pharmaceutical dependency.

Meh.

Our senate would be more interested if a bat colony was threatened by a unit development.

One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson requested an inquiry to ask:

1. Whether children are being rushed into gender reassignment surgery, as has been suggested by University of Queensland Law Professor Patrick Parkinson
2. Whether children are being over-diagnosed with gender dysphoria without proper consultation or mental health assessment
3. Whether Australia should follow the United Kingdom and many other European countries in adopting a more cautious approach to the prescription of puberty blocker drugs, amid concerns the evidence base for their efficacy is lacking

There’s nothing untoward or hateful about those questions. There’s nothing transphobic about them.

And yet 38 Australian senators, among them Liberal Senate Leader Simon Birmingham, voted not to ask such questions.

Were Labor senators interested in those questions?

No.

Even Penny Wong voted no, which is weird since the trans movement is deeply homophobic.

Were Greens senators at all curious about what is being done to Australian children?

Hardly.

What about Devout Christian David Pocock?

Yeah. Nah.

And Jacquie Lambie?

She didn’t even bother to vote.

As for Liberal Party Senators Birmingham, Hume, Smith, Bragg and Kavocic… they’re far more interested in literally anything else. And they are certainly unworthy of being called Liberals.

They should hang their heads in shame. And while they’re at it, they should get out of the Liberal Party.

This is a scandal of epic proportions. The unwillingness of our representatives to protect children from this dangerous ideology is really quite incredible.

Anna Brown, CEO of Equality Australia, claimed Senator Hanson was politicising trans and gender-diverse children.

Wait. What? For asking about their health?

Funny you mention that. She said even asking about their health “negatively impacts the health and wellbeing of a population that is already under significant stress”.

That’s right. To ask about the well-being of so-called trans kids is to endanger the well-being of those kids. And you wouldn’t want to endanger their well-being, would you? So don’t ever ask about their well-being.

What these people can’t tell you about emotional manipulation is not worth hearing.

Senator Hanson slammed the 38 senators who voted against an inquiry.

“History, and the Australian people, will condemn you,” she said.

I hope so. I really hope so.

Here’s the full list of how senators voted:

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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report.

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