Biological sex a cellular matter
ANDREW Badcock confuses gender identity with biological sex (Letters, November 7).
A birth certificate records a person’s objective biological sex, not their subjective gender identity.
Your biological sex of male (XY chromosomes) or female (XX) is determined at the moment of conception, and is literally written all over you, in each of the 37 trillion cells of your body.
Male and female body parts are the result of your biological sex, not the cause of it. Surgery cannot change your chromosomes.
A birth certificate is a legal document. Legal documents cannot be changed or falsified just to make people feel better.
If “love is love”, then male is male, and female is female.
Bridge of peace
ON Remembrance Day I will cross the Brooker and wander on the Domain. I will gaze at local, indigenous plants. I will watch the ground parrots. I will meditate in the peace and quiet amid the natural beauty.
My mind will wander back to 100 years ago and the Armistice. I will remember the young men who voyaged from Tasmania to Europe. I will remember the pressure on young men to enlist. I will remember the jingoistic madness and the posters about doing it for King and country.
I will feel sad about what these men experienced and admire their bravery. I will remember the people left behind. The forgotten women, men and children. I will remember how they waited not knowing how their life was about to change.
I will remember the indigenous Australians. I will remember people such as German immigrants living in Australia. I will remember the white feather brigade. All with a unique reason for not enlisting.
I will remember the opposing side of the battlefield. The other side had similar suffering soldiers and similar families that waited in ignorance.
And then I will attempt to recross the Brooker. What we need is an overpass or bridge, at Clearys Gates, crossing the Brooker dedicated to peace. A bridge of peace.
Bill Shorten almost stole the 2016 federal election on the back of his Mediscare lies and it comes as no surprise that Labor is running the same lies again as we get closer to an election in the hopes that this time he will be successful.
The truth behind Mediscare Mark II is that the Department of Human Services recently engaged two people from a local recruitment firm in Tasmania to perform back of office roles at a DHS office in Hobart.
All of this was explained in great detail at a recent Senate Estimates Committee hearing in Canberra.
Transcripts of those hearings are publicly available and I encourage anyone who would like to learn more about the truth behind Labor’s lies to seek them out
The Coalition Government remains steadfastly committed to Medicare and will always put the best interests of the Australian people first. bena (after secretly rezoning its wilderness classification with no community support).
That the Government ignored the advice of the state’s peak stakeholder body for parks, the National Park and Wildlife Advisory Council, and approved the Lake Malbena development and helicopter use beggars belief (“Feds were advised not to approve WHA plan” Mercury, October 16).
Tourism is booming in Tasmania, and this is a good thing. There is no justification to open our parks to private development — there are plenty of places for helicopters and fishing lodges to be established outside of our parks. The privatisation of our national parks is an issue that does not have the social licence of the Tasmanian community to proceed. It is a linein-the-sand issue for thousands of Tasmanian anglers, bushwalkers and nature lovers who recently united in Launceston for a public rally.
The privatisation of our national parks should not be allowed. Period.
Say no to helicopters and say yes to preserve our national parks as they are.