Gender campaigners launch woken war on language
Sall Grover has every right to cross out “birthing parents” and write “mother” when filling in the hospital form handed to her after giving birth, as recently reported.
Despite what woke transgender activists argue, human biology rules and it’s females who have children and mothers who give birth.
It’s also mothers who “breast feed”, not “chest feed”.
It is mothers who express “breast milk”, not “chest milk”.
And the word “father” is the right description instead of “the nongestational parent”.
Like Alice in Wonderland, we have gone down the rabbit hole and entered a crazy, mad world where woke activists believe they can change the meaning of words.
Just like when Humpty Dumpty says: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”
There’s no end to the cultural left’s campaign to radically change society by enforcing language control and how we communicate to one another.
Instead of being a boy or a girl, hospitals now assign a baby’s gender at birth on the mistaken assumption gender is fluid and limitless.
Primary schoolchildren are told to stop using words like “boys” and “girls” as such descriptions, according to the gender fluidity Safe Schools program, are guilty of being heteronormative and cis-gendered.
Instead of Father’s or Mother’s Day we now have “a non-binary, gender-free person’s day”.
University language guides warn students about using words like “healthy” or “normal” as they might offend people who are disabled.
Australian governments, both commonwealth and state and territory, have long been captured by the woke thought police.
The commonwealth style manual states, under the heading of gender neutral language, pronouns such as “he” and “she” should be replaced by “they” or “them”.
Sall Grover is correct when she argues woke gender language “is being introduced to appease a very fringe group of people, many of whom are lobbyists and activists”.
One survey, titled Estimates of Australia’s non-heterosexual population, suggests the non-binary population in Australia is about 3.2 per cent. Most Australians identify as heterosexual.
A more recent 2020 survey, Identity matters: sexual identity in Australia, published by the Commonwealth’s Parliamentary Library, puts the figure at four per cent of the population aged 15 and older.
It’s mainly woke public servants, government departments, academics and the Australian Education Union and the Australian Association for the Teaching of English pushing radical gender language and ideology.
Obviously, it is wrong to unfairly discriminate and marginalise lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and plus people (LGBTIQ+).
But it is also obviously wrong to inflict on the majority of Australians, especially children, language and beliefs that undermine and question what for most Australians is considered normal.