Trump bans taxpayer funding for children’s sex change operations
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, his actions in his first seven days in office to protect children from radical LGBTIQA+ gender ideology must be applauded.
An Executive Order issued last night cuts off taxpayer funding for sex change operations on children.
Family First has been highlighting this issue in Australia for years, with establishment political leaders either ignoring the harm or supporting it.
Trump’s Executive Order states:
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilising a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions,” the order says.
“This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”
The order says children will “regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding.”
“Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another…and it (the government) will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
Family First is fighting for laws which ban sex change operations for minors, something which is Labor policy.
Similarly, Peter Dutton said last week he will do nothing to restore to Australia’s public policy the truth that there are only two genders, leaving girls, women and children vulnerable.
Read the executive order from the White House.
Family First to fight for Classification Board overhaul following anti-family decisions
Family First shares the outrage of child safety and women’s rights advocates at recent decisions of Australia’s Classification Review Board reported in the Weekend Australian.
If elected, Family First will fight for an overhaul of the board including inclusion of child safety and trauma experts on the board to ensure decisions reflect community standards.
The board’s clearance of a novel and a comic containing graphic depictions of child sexual abuse and violent sexual acts against women under the guise of "literary, artistic and educational merits” is a stark example of how this government body is failing to protect families.
Family First calls for urgent reform of the Classification Review Board to prevent such anti-family decisions from continuing to harm our society.
The board’s decision to give the novel Ostend an unrestricted classification is a shocking dereliction of its duty to uphold community standards.
Ostend, written by Maxsense Maximus, includes graphic descriptions of the violent gang rape of a nine-year-old girl and the torture of an 11-year-old girl by paedophiles.
While the novel does not promote paedophilia - its descriptions are in the context of a character dismantling a fictional child sex gang – the novel’s depictions of child gang rape are of such a graphic nature that they do not belong in literature.
Family First has chosen not to print even the Australian newspaper’s description, which was itself heavily redacted.
Despite this horrifying content, the board deemed the material “not high in impact” and concluded it had “literary, artistic and educational merits.”
It is incomprehensible that such content could be deemed suitable for audiences as young as 15.
Equally appalling is the board’s approval of The Boys: Omnibus Volume Two, a comic depicting violent sexual acts, including a scene where a man threatens to kill a woman’s family while forcing her into submission.
The board dismissed this as "dark humour" and “consensual” despite the clear terror and aggression depicted. This decision trivialises the horror of sexual violence and ignores the dangerous influence such media can have on young minds.
Family First firmly believes there is no place for literature or media that normalises or glorifies child sexual abuse, rape, or violence against women and girls.
These decisions by the Classification Review Board undermine efforts to combat domestic violence, protect children, and uphold the dignity of women.
It is deeply concerning that, while the Albanese government touts its new laws banning under-16s from social media to reduce social harm, it allows material of this nature to circulate freely.
Family First commends family activist Bernard Gaynor for his tireless efforts in exposing the dangerous failings of the Classification Review Board.
Gaynor has highlighted how these decisions are not only morally wrong but legally flawed, given that the National Classification Code explicitly prohibits material containing descriptions of child sexual abuse or exploitative depictions of sexual violence.
Family First has long supported Gaynor’s work, with National Director Lyle Shelton featuring him on ADH TV.
Readers can view these insightful discussions on Family First’s YouTube channel.
Advocates such as Hetty Johnston of Bravehearts and Melinda Tankard Reist of Collective Shout have rightly also condemned the board for failing to prioritise community wellbeing and child safety.
Johnston described the material as "violent porn" and expressed disbelief that such content could be given the green light.
Tankard Reist called for the inclusion of child safety and trauma experts on the board to ensure decisions reflect community standards.
Family First, if elected at the federal election, will fight for these inclusions.
The inclusion of experts in child safety and trauma is essential, as is a mandate to reject material that trivialises or exploits sexual violence.
Without such reforms, the board will continue to betray its responsibility to the Australian people.
As a nation, we must draw a firm line against the distribution of material that degrades women and endangers children.
Family First will continue to advocate for a safer, family-friendly Australia where the rights of the vulnerable are defended, and harmful media is kept out of circulation.
(Image: A page from the comic strip "The Boys").
How parents’ rights were undermined under Liberal governments
With parental rights front and centre of Family First’s campaign for the up-coming federal election, Tony Abbott has made a stunning admission about how those rights were first undermined when he was PM.
Writing for Canada’s National Post, Abbott admitted that his ministers were deceived by bureaucrats into introducing programs like the so-called “safe schools” program which told children their gender was fluid.
“An example of this was the introduction, by (Liberal) ministers who had been captured by bureaucrats, of the social engineering, gender fluidity-encouraging Safe Schools program, which was masquerading as an anti-bullying initiative, even though it had been devised under my (Labor) predecessors,” he wrote.
In my view, Abbott is being quite generous to his Education Minister Christopher Pyne.
I don’t believe Pyne was “snowed” at all. He knew exactly what Safe Schools was about and he later became one of the key drivers in the Parliament to remove the gender diversity requirement from the Marriage Act.
As a lobbyist for the Australian Christian Lobby I took material produced by a radical LGBTIQA+ activist group, Minus 18, to Pyne’s Assistant Education Minister Scott Ryan.
Ryan couldn’t believe the advice to children on penis tucking and chest binding.
There was even advice to children to get so-called “gender affirmation” surgery “with or without parental consent”.
Ryan’s staff later admitted to me that material was indeed promoted by “Safe Schools” but our efforts to have it removed under the Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison Liberal-National Governments were fruitless.
Countless Australian children are now on sterilising puberty blockers prescribed by child gender clinics throughout the nation.
Whistle blower psychiatrists like Dr Jillian Spencer remain suspended in Queensland, despite an LNP government now in power.
Abbott is not wrong to say bureaucrats take advantage of elected people.
But the flip side of his concern that “conservatives are often in government but not in power” is because too many Liberals have given in to Woke agendas.
That certainly seems to be the case of the Crisafulli Government in Queensland but it is early days still.
This of course is why Family First exists and is fielding candidates across southern and eastern Australia at the up-coming federal election.
And restoring parental rights over what children are taught at school is one of our key campaign themes.