{"id":155064,"date":"2022-07-27T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T14:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=155064"},"modified":"2022-07-27T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T14:27:54","slug":"senator-claire-chandler-bureaucracy-erasing-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/senator-claire-chandler-bureaucracy-erasing-women","title":{"rendered":"Senator Claire Chandler: Bureaucracy erasing women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is an op-ed by Australian Senator Claire Chandler<\/a>, published in Daily Telegraph on 27 July 2022. <\/p>IFN editorial<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, Australians have watched with incredulity as corporations, universities and bureaucrats have adopted dehumanising terms like \u201cmenstruators\u201d, \u201cchest-feeders\u201d and \u201cgestational carriers\u201d from woke activists and Twitter social justice warriors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the Daily Telegraph <\/em>reported on the latest example: Services Australia deleting the word \u2018mother\u2019 from a Medicare form and replacing it with the de-sexed term \u201cbirthing parent\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the advocacy of Sall Grover, the form has now been axed and the word \u201cmother\u201d restored. This was a good, common-sense decision by Bill Shorten; but it\u2019s just the tip of a very large iceberg of ideological capture in the public service. Scrapping one form won\u2019t get to the heart of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August last year, the federal Department of Health decided to dedicate resources to deleting more than fifty references to \u2018women\u2019 from a pregnancy COVID19 vaccination guide, replacing them with \u2018pregnant person\u2019. Not only was this a mind-boggling waste of resources during a pandemic, but the removal of specific sex-based language undermines the accuracy of health advice for pregnant women. So why did they do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month, the Department of Health finally answered my questions, submitted seven months ago, about who asked them to delete the word \u201cwoman\u201d and why they went along with it. The Department\u2019s answer was that it receives \u201ca benchmark and suggestions\u201d on \u201cthe use of inclusive language\u201d from the lobby group Pride in Diversity. Services Australia was presented with a \u2018Gold Employer\u2019 award by the same lobby group this year, apparently around the same time it was starting to re-label mothers as \u201cbirthing parents\u201d. All up, more than thirty federal Departments and Agencies have been paying this lobby group for advice and staff training on so-called \u2018inclusive\u2019 language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overwhelming majority of Australians don\u2019t find the re-labelling of mothers as \u201cbirthing parents\u201d or \u201cpregnant people\u201d inclusive. They consider it unnecessary, sexist virtue-signalling. It\u2019s unclear why taxpayers are paying for lobby groups to push the bureaucracy to use such language and adopt other policies which are not supported by the public, particularly with the budget in a parlous state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The influence of lobby groups over the public service helps to explain not only the actions of Services Australia and the Department of Health, but also why the Office for Women declares that anyone who identifies as a woman is a woman, why Sport Australia encourages males who identify as women to play women\u2019s sport, and why the Australian Bureau of Statistics claimed that humans can change sex over the course of their lifetime (a claim it was forced to amend after I asked them at Senate Estimates if they\u2019d checked it with biologists).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These activist positions taken by bureaucrats not only fly in the face of the evidence and public opinion, but they have real-world detrimental consequences for women. Governments around Australia and internationally are increasingly allowing males to self-identify into women\u2019s spaces and facilities, even housing male rapists in women\u2019s prisons, with predictably devastating results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last three years, I have not been able to find a single government Agency or Department prepared to agree that a woman is a member of the female sex, let alone agree that single-sex services are an important tool for the participation and safety of women and girls. Public servants who have contacted me privately say that expressing such a normal, mainstream view in their workplace would be career-limiting and contradict the \u2018inclusivity\u2019 staff training that many Departments engage lobby groups to conduct. Yet it is abundantly clear to the vast majority of Australians that this ideology, which drives such appalling disregard for women, should have no place in the public service we pay for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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