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Australia: La Trobe University Lecturer defends paedophilia

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La Trobe University (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The University that promoted homosexuality in Australia schools entitled Safe Schools is now saying Children can experience “a sense of power and control in sexual encounters with adults” and sexual pleasure , according to a senior La Trobe University academic who supports the controversial Safe Schools Coalition Australia program. Dr Steven Angelides is the Senior Grants Administrator of La Trobe’s Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), which launched the “Safe Schools” program. He has argued that children are capable of consenting to sexual activity with adults, and that such activities are not necessarily harmful. “I am deeply concerned about articles by Dr Angelides, whose views appear to be fundamentally at odds with those of parents,” FamilyVoice research officer Ros Phillips said today. In a 2004 article “Sex and the Child”, published in the journal Meanjin [Volume 63, Issue 4], Dr Angelides wrote: T...

Safe Schools transgender awareness program could do more harm to kids than good

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Australian author and feminist Germaine Greer at the 2006 Humber Mouth Festival. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) AS parents send their children back to school, they might want to check if their primary or high school is signed up to the so-called Safe Schools Coalition Australia . One parent who did some checking was Cella White of Frankston in Victoria .   She has withdrawn her child from Frankston High School. Other parents across Australia are doing the same. In the name of anti-bullying , Safe Schools are urged to let boys who believe in their mind they are a girl to use the girls’ toilets, change facilities and even sleeping quarters on school camps. Safe Schools material contains posters of boys dressed in girls’ school uniforms with the message “gender is not uniform” and schools are encouraged to let children wear the uniform of their felt gender. Now gender dysphoria is a serious issue and no child should be bullied for any reason. But Safe Schools goes way b...