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Victoria Australia: Safe Schools - ideology not science

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The Safe Schools program in Australia has attracted great controversy. On one end of the spectrum it is defended as an anti-bullying program. On the other end of the spectrum it is regarded as social engineering. It is important to have programs in schools that offer support for same-sex attracted youth, or those experiencing confusion about their gender identity , particularly those who do not have support at home. However, this particular program has some serious flaws. This paper seeks to draw attention to various problems in the Safe Schools materials which ought to be rectified if a program like this is to continue to be offered in schools. First, the materials present statistics on same-sex attraction and transgender prevalence that have no valid scientific basis. Secondly, they present sexual orientation as fixed when for school-aged adolescents it is very volatile, and many same-sex attractions are transitory. Thirdly, they present gender as fluid when for about 99....

Gay Labor senator Louise Pratt wants plebiscite scrapped - her personal truth

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It has been four years since gay Labor senator Louise Pratt stood up in parliament, pleading for it to stop pretending her love, her family didn't exist. Pratt lives with a transgender partner Aram. Louise, 40, first met Aram, 29, he was a woman named Renae and their relationship has had to survive his transition to male. In that Senate speech, Pratt made a tearful plea to her fellow parliamentarians to support gay marriage , asking them to “stop pretending our love isn’t as real as yours”. Dr. Paul R. McHugh , the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and former psychiatrist–in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital , who has studied transgendered people for 40 years, said it is a scientific fact that “transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men.” He states that transgenderism is a “ mental disorder ” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible,” and that people who promote sexual reassignme...

LGBTQIA: the expanding gender agenda

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February 6, 2013 (Mercatornet.com) - Last month  The New York Times  published  an article  on the latest expansion of sexual identity among students at progressive universities in the United States . LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) no longer covers it, according to a handful of students who seem to have nothing better to do than reinvent themselves. “Generation LGBTQIA” want recognition for queer, intersex and asexual proclivities as well. According to the  Times , this list by no means is final but continually being added to as students “move beyond the binary of male/female”, heterosexual/homosexual and reject the normal. Most people are unaware of the inroads made by gender theory -- the ideology that has produced “Generation LBGTQIA” -- or of the dangers it presents. Part of the confusion lies in the fact that there are several different theories of gender each of which is based on a false understanding of the human person. The various t...

Ontario high school selects ‘transgender’ man as prom queen

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TRENTON, Ontario, July 5, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - At their graduation prom on June 22, attendees at  Trenton High School  voted an 18-year-old man who now lives as a woman to be this year’s prom queen . Connor Ferguson, who said he was “really surprised” at being made prom queen, told  the Trentonian , “I’ve lived as I am for four years now, so I believe the ‘shock value’ is gone and most people just accept me for me.” He had high praise for his school which he said is very tolerant of homosexual and transgendered students, attributing this to the anti-bullying campaign the school holds annually. “It took some time for quite a few people, but the school and staff definitely helped with that, and my group of friends was endlessly supportive. I think people accept you a lot more when you stick up for yourself and have enough confidence to be yourself,” Ferguson said. Asked what he would advise people who he described as “trans-phobic,” Connor said, “I would wan...

Academic conference seeks to normalize pedophilia

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Image via Wikipedia Researchers from several prominent U.S. universities will participate tomorrow in a Baltimore conference reportedly aiming to normalize pedophilia .  According to the sponsoring organization’s  website , the event will examine ways in which “minor-attracted persons” can be involved in a revision of the American Psychological Association (APA) classification of pedophilia.  B4U-ACT, a group of pro-pedophile activists and mental health professionals, is behind the August 17 conference, which will include panelists from Harvard University , the Johns Hopkins University , the University of Louisville , and the University of Illinois. B4U-ACT science director Howard Kline has criticized the definition of pedophilia by the American Psychological Association, describing its treatment of “minor-attracted persons” as “inaccurate” and “misleading.” “It is based on data from prison studies, which completely ignore the existence of those who are law-abiding,...