Marci Ansen
Smiling because...
...in very late news (more than 10 days old, I'm sorry) proposed anti-trans legislation by our clusterfuck of a federal government was defeated over a week back, when some of its own members turned against it.
Because we have a Prime Minister who specialises in performative god-bothering, he decided it would be a good wedge to be "inclusive" towards gay kids, but hang trans kids out to dry, as a sop to extreme religious organisations (and help to make a big deal of bathroom moral panicking).
The really lovely thing was that a number of leading Catholic schools (single sex and co-ed) came out to say there was no big deal, and they were happily managing MtF and FtM trans kids (even bathrooms, shock horror). And a Jewish school that said "meh, we've had gender-neutral bathrooms for years".
So, the government was humiliated (for now, anyway, though I'm sure they will not forget), and trans kids/people around the country felt a little more supported and accepted by a surprisingly wide cross-section of the population. Which is always a nice thing.
Smiling because...
...in very late news (more than 10 days old, I'm sorry) proposed anti-trans legislation by our clusterfuck of a federal government was defeated over a week back, when some of its own members turned against it.
Because we have a Prime Minister who specialises in performative god-bothering, he decided it would be a good wedge to be "inclusive" towards gay kids, but hang trans kids out to dry, as a sop to extreme religious organisations (and help to make a big deal of bathroom moral panicking).
The really lovely thing was that a number of leading Catholic schools (single sex and co-ed) came out to say there was no big deal, and they were happily managing MtF and FtM trans kids (even bathrooms, shock horror). And a Jewish school that said "meh, we've had gender-neutral bathrooms for years".
So, the government was humiliated (for now, anyway, though I'm sure they will not forget), and trans kids/people around the country felt a little more supported and accepted by a surprisingly wide cross-section of the population. Which is always a nice thing.