In his first 14 days in office, Scott Morrison has put the lives of the LGBTIQA+ community in the firing line three times
In the three hours following the prime minister’s “gender whisperers” tweet on Wednesday morning, I was yelled at twice in the street by men sitting in their cars at traffic lights. That was just during a five-minute walk from the tram to the gym. While I’m old enough to recite activist Marsha P Johnson’s mantra, “pay it no mind”, what concerns me is just how many transgender, non-binary or gender-questioning kids at school this week will endure the same harassment in the wake of Scott Morrison’s latest comments about LGBTIQA+ Australians.
There’s often a spike in harassment towards the transgender community at the times when our leaders and media pundits single us out with hate speech. It gives permission for people to think their prejudiced ideas are justifiable beliefs that need to be shouted from cars or in playgrounds. It’s the Australian way – passed down through the generations – with transphobia a staple in the diet of the bully.
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