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Heterosexual politicians calling for a plebiscite on same-sex marriage don’t understand the fear and animosity faced by LGBTI Australians, the senior Labor frontbencher Penny Wong has argued. Wong raised the fact that LGBTI Australians face abuse online, that they are still victims of assault and fear holding hands in public, to demonstrate their opposition to a gay marriage vote by Australians. Homosexuality was an offence that resulted in a jail term; and Wong a committed lesbians wonders why ordinary people respond negatively to homosexual sin being displayed in public. Prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said a plebiscite would be conducted in a civil and respectful way. Australian Labor has stepped up its attack on the government’s plan for a plebiscite on the issue, Shorten describing it on Sunday as “a taxpayer-funded platform for homophobia”. Shorten a former union leaders who pushed his way into a mine rescue and took credit has no moral argument for changing traditional ma...

Teachers at a conference for UK girls' schools last week were instructed to call students “pupils” instead of “girls” so as to avoid offending the gender-confused. A group called Gendered Intelligence made the recommendation at the Summer 2016 Briefing of the Girls’ Schools Association (GSA), which represents the heads of many of the top independent day and boarding schools in the UK.   Gendered Intelligence is a non-profit that provides “trans awareness training for all sectors and educational workshops for schools, colleges, Universities and other educational settings” and specializes in “supporting young trans people aged 8-25,” according to its website. Gendered Intelligence delivers presentations on transgenderism to UK schoolchildren   as young as four   and runs a London youth group for children starting at age eight. “Some people feel like using she/her pronouns sometimes and he/him pronouns at other times,” Gendered Intelligence’s website explains, ...