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Jun 13
I wonder if AHPRA has ever conducted independent research of this nature?
the professions demands it. The public disagrees.
In a Curia Market Research poll of 1,000 New Zealanders, only 22% said a political view they disagreed with - expressed on social media by a doctor or nurse who had treated them competently and respectfully - would make them want to change practitioner. 57% said it would not.
Patients judge healthcare professionals on the quality of their care. If public confidence is the test, the case for disciplining lawful speech fails it.
Judge care, not opinions.
Full results: fsu.nz/blog/regulators-poll-…
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Jun 12
It’s hard to make an argument against a very clear explanation based on verifiable evidence and logical reasoning.
Jun 12
“What about XXY, XXX, XO, XYY, etc?”
Those chromosomal disorders still result in either males or females.
Chromosome combinations are not sexes.
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Jun 12
I wonder what the polls would say in Australia?
New Zealanders have drawn a clear line.
A Curia Market Research poll of 1,000 voters found 54% believe regulators such as the Medical and Nursing Councils should discipline doctors and nurses only for incompetence or negligence. Just 18% believe regulators should also discipline practitioners for views expressed on social media - a margin of three to one.
Patients want safe, competent healthcare. They don’t expect their regulators to act as referees of political opinion.
Professional standards matter. Political conformity is not a professional standard.
Full results: fsu.nz/blog/regulators-poll-…
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Jun 12
So it’s not just AHPRA!
A nurse with 25 years of service should not lose her career over lawful opinions shared online. Yet that is exactly what Cath Simpson is facing.
In August, Cath will stand before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal. Not because of any complaint about her care of patients, but because of views she expressed as a private citizen.
The Free Speech Union is defending Cath because this case is about more than one nurse. It is about whether professional regulators should police competence and conduct, or people's lawful beliefs and opinions.
We support the Regulated Professions Neutrality Bill to stop this kind of overreach. But until the law changes, people like Cath need defending.Â
If you believe professionals should be judged by how they do their jobs, not by their private political views, please make a contribution today.
Stand with Cath.
Donate here: fsu.nz/donation-pages/stand-…
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Too many people are doing it rough, so I’m so stoked to hear that @abcmelbourne are runnin a #MealsForMelbourne food drive for Foodbank. 👏🏼
If you can help, head down to their studio in Southbank and donate what ya can.
This is what Aussies do. We look out for each other. ✊🏼
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I concur.
In The Australian 🇦🇺 newspaper today “OMBUDSMAN'S IMPARTIALITY QUESTIONED. Health watchdog faces bias claims over trans ruling” by Bernard Lane.
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May 31
Chromosomal disorders and “intersex” conditions still result in males or females.
Have a look at some examples.
May 31
Ah yes. Scientifically sound. Apart from intersex conditions, chromosome variations, and decades of research. But apart from that.
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May 30
Voltaire passed away today in 1778.
There are two quotes of his I always come back to:
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Community note
The first quote is not by Voltaire. It was created by Evelyn Beatrice Hall in 1906 to summarize his philosophy. The second quote is a variation of Voltaire's 1765 words which referred to committing injustices rather than atrocities.
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Let me use my voice to remind all of you that good and kindness still flourishes in every corner of this world.
If you wanted proof, it’s you. I see it daily in ya posts, the way you engage with my account, and others.
Don’t let that flame ever burn out. The world needs you.
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May 30
Aussie women fought for our rights to safer spaces and for greater visibility and participation in public life over many years. So why, in 2024, are we being told we must tolerate the erasure of female-only spaces in NSW because of the “Equality Bill?”
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May 27
This isn't a hate campaign, it's a reality check.
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May 26
Our Sex Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody - arguably the biggest clown among all the @AusHumanRights commissioners - claims ignorance of basic biology when it suits her, yet confidently redefines chromosomes and sex in court.
Now one can quibble about whether Senator @MRobertsQLD should be quizzing her about chromosomes and biological sex. But her evasive answers just show how confused - or deliberately confusing - Cody is.
Here she hides behind Differences of Sex Development (DSDs, often mislabelled "intersex") to push a "sex is a spectrum" argument (she even slips in the word "spectrum"). This confusion serves a purpose: she does not want "sex" to retain its ordinary biological meaning in law. In the Tickle v Giggle case, she explicitly argued on behalf of the AHRC that "the word 'sex' is not a biological concept" and "nor is it a binary concept," but can include non-binary status and can change.
The biological reality is simpler and immutable, even with DSDs:
At conception, chromosomal sex - usually XX (female) or XY (male) - and the presence or absence of the SRY gene are permanently fixed in every cell of the body..
Then, around 6–7 weeks of pregnancy, a fast biological cascade begins. In typical XY embryos, the SRY gene acts like a master switch: it flips on, triggers testis development, and launches a rapid chain of male hormones that build male anatomy by about 12 weeks. Without the SRY switch, the body follows the female pathway.
(Rare exceptions prove the rule: In de la Chapelle syndrome (46,XX males), SRY translocates onto an X chromosome - the person develops as a man with testes. In Swyer syndrome (XY females), SRY is mutated or non-functional - the person develops as a woman with streak gonads. Both are still unambiguously male or female.)
The real determiner of biological sex is gonadal sex - whether an individual has testes (male) or ovaries (female), even if underdeveloped, streak, or non-functional. We just happen to use external (or secondary) sex characteristics as a short cut for recognising sex because they are accurate 99.999% of the time. DSDs are developmental variations or disorders within the binary, not a spectrum, and have nothing to do with gender identity. All people with DSDs are either men or women. End of story.
Sex cannot be reversed or changed at any point after conception. The genetic foundation (chromosomes SRY) is set forever at fertilization, and the physical development window closes early in pregnancy. Everything after that is just modification of an already-established male or female body.
No medical technology, surgery, or hormone treatment can remove SRY from a male, add SRY to a female, or change XX to XY (or vice versa) or create functional opposite-sex gonads. Gene editing (like CRISPR) is not currently possible at the whole-body level in a living person, and even in theory it would be far too late and dangerous.
This is the scientific reality the AHRC and its commissioners are fighting tooth and nail to obscure in law.
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May 26
Taxpayers are forking out $408k a year for Sex Discrimination Commissioner Dr Cody who actually believes a biological male can “identify” as pregnant.
Another example of woketard Dr Cody who dodges basic biology when asked if people can change biological sex her reply is “I’m not a scientist”.
Pure lunacy! 🤡🤡
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Seems fair, doesn’t it?
May 26
Protecting the female sports category is simple: a one-time cheek swab for the SRY gene using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).
SRY = indicates male
No SRY = indicates female
Scientifically precise, accurate, and non-invasive. Rare conflicting cases can be evaluated further.
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Ain’t that da truth!
May 26
“Australia has witnessed an increasing number of complaints, tribunal proceedings, workplace disputes, regulatory actions, and court cases involving conflict between gender ideology and gender-critical beliefs.
“This is not simply a debate about personal identity. Increasingly, it has become a conflict over how society defines sex, protects vulnerable groups, balances competing rights, and determines which beliefs may be expressed in public life.” @WomeSpeakTas
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May 24
The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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May 18
The universal definition of woman is adult human female.
It applies even to those females who have sex chromosome disorders.
This definition continues to apply even if in the distant future our species evolves a different sex determining mechanism than XX/XY. @elonmusk
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May 16
The sex binary is a near universal phenomenon across the plant and animal kingdoms.
95% of animal species have a familiar expression of it: male and female in separate individuals for life, a system known as gonochorism.
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May 14
Nothing improves when the same mistakes keep getting repeated
Every time an Aboriginal child dies, the response is the same. Not fund services. Not resource families. Demonise an entire culture.
I cannot think of a single instance where a non-Indigenous child’s death prompted calls to demonise all non-Indigenous people. Yet here we are. Again.
The data tells a different story to the one being weaponised right now.
92% of children in NT care are already Aboriginal. The system has never gone soft on Aboriginal people. 82% of those removals are for neglect — the lowest level on the risk continuum, the most vulnerable to cultural bias, and the one that warrants intensive family support. Not removal.
Sexual abuse — where people’s minds immediately go — accounts for 6% of notifications for Aboriginal children. It’s 10% for non-Indigenous children.
We have now surpassed 25,000 Aboriginal children removed from their families. The same number as the Stolen Generations. We are not learning. We are repeating.
In WA, removing just 4 of 20 child protection districts — the most remote, the most under-resourced — drops the Aboriginal removal rate from 61% to 38%. In the Kimberley, 100% of children in care are Aboriginal. The Pilbara, 96%. It defies logic. We are supposed to believe there has never been a non-Indigenous child in the Kimberley deemed in need of state protection.
The Kimberley also has the highest rates of child suicide in the country — Indigenous children dying at 6 times the rate of non-Indigenous children. Removal does not protect children. It destroys them. And the harm is generational.
Meanwhile, the government funds intensive family support programs that 80% non-Indigenous families access — delivered by a workforce that is 90% non-Indigenous. Over the past decade, the non-Indigenous removal rate has fallen 13%. The Indigenous rate has risen 120%. Same system. Same decade. One group served, one group not.
Only 5% of child protection notifications come from wealthy suburbs. We are targeting poor Black families while other children go unseen.
Child abuse is a human issue. Linking culture to abuse is eugenics. It has always been eugenics.
The pipeline is straightforward: removal → justice system → substance use → violence → poor health → poor education. Every organisation working on those outcomes exists largely because of the Stolen Generations. We are building the next generation of that client base right now.
The Child Placement Principle has never stopped authorities from protecting a child at genuine risk. If Senator Price and the CLP believe otherwise, they need to show us exactly where. Not rhetoric. Actual cases. Abd report those cases. Dont stand in front of the country and demonise an entire culture acting like the system hasn’t removed children at breathtaking numbers. And deny the fact that when families reach out fir help they are being harmed instead.
What it does is prevent us from repeating history.
We are repeating history.
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Here’s a thought!
I wonder what it would be like living in Brisbane if all the streets were lined with trees. And if, like Singapore, all the supports of bridges and the light poles were covered with vines. Would it be fresher? Cooler in Summer? Could we establish that well before the Olympics?
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May 6
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
-Aldous Huxley
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