Mark Latham attacks LGBTI-inclusive schools in inaugural speech
Image: Mark Latham. Image: file photo.
Mark Latham has used his in parliament as One Nation鈥檚 New South Wales leader to rail against the LGBTI community and inclusivity in schools.
After praising the achievements of 鈥淲estern civilisation鈥�, Latham went on to repeatedly attack 鈥渓eftists鈥� and 鈥渆lites鈥�.
He criticised gender and sexual diversity, seeming to go after trans people in particular.
鈥淭he New Left are the new primitives of our time, junking the importance of evidence, of recorded history, of biological science, to pretend that all parts of our lives, especially race, gender and sexuality can be fluid, that everything we know and feel around us is, in fact, 鈥榮ocially constructed鈥�, that is what they say, 鈥榮ocially constructed鈥�. They are peddling fake news,鈥� he said.
鈥淧eople know and understand the things they see and feel in their lives. It is called evidence.
鈥淥ur personal characteristics and identities are fixed, not fluid. With few exceptions people are born either male or female.鈥�
Latham argued that schools were being taken over by Orwellian pro-LGBTI 鈥渋ndoctrination鈥�.
鈥淓litist, would-be dictators taking away from working-class communities the things these battlers value,鈥� he said.
鈥淭he right to speak their mind; to say they love their country and want Australia Day to stay; to practice their Christianity, openly and freely; to send their children to school without the garbage of Safe Schools, , HeadRest [mindfulness training] indoctrination and the other crackpot theories making some New South Wales classrooms more like a Hare Krishna meeting than actual education.
鈥淎nd when they go to work the chance to do their job without being bombarded by employment quotas, 鈥榰nconscious bias鈥� training and a long list of unspeakable, taboo words, scary, scary stuff, like 鈥榞uys鈥� and 鈥榤ums and dads鈥�.鈥�
He said that schools were 鈥減ushing鈥� trans issues on students.
鈥淲e should not be confusing young people and risking their mental health by pushing gender fluidity upon them,鈥� said Latham.
鈥淲e should not be taking away from parents their essential role as the primary carers of their children in matters personal and sexual. We should not be changing the purpose of our education system, transforming schools from places of skill and academic attainment into gender fluidity factories.
鈥淢ost of all, we should not be losing sight of the interests of mainstream, majority Australia.鈥�
Latham also used his speech to suggest white men were an oppressed class.
鈥淚dentity politics is a zero-sum game,鈥� he said.
鈥淚t uses employment quotas and other forms of institutionalised bias to favour one hand-picked identity grouping over another, regardless of personal need.
鈥淭his causes enormous resentment among those who miss out because they have the wrong skin colour, the wrong gender, the wrong sexuality鈥攖hings they can do nothing about.
鈥淒ivisive identity politics subdivides our society, destroying its sense of common good and it leaves the rainbow Left impotent.
鈥淭hey have no solution for the white welfare-dependent man living in a public housing estate. In fact, far from helping him, perversely and tragically they define him as part of the problem. Imagine how he feels. I have spoken to these men. Imagine how they feel when they see other identity characteristics gaining special treatment.鈥�
President of Wear It Purple, Ross Wetherbee, spoke with the 17c起草社区 about Latham’s maiden speech, which denigrated Wear It Purple Day, an annual day recognised by many schools that tackles homophobia and transphobia against LGBTI young people.
“We condemn any remarks that incite bullying, victimisation and exclusion of LGBTIQ+ young people because we know the damage that these actions can inflict on young people grappling with their sexuality or gender identity,” he said.
“Our reason for being is to assist individuals, schools, universities, workplaces and others to show rainbow young people that they are welcome in our society 鈥� that they are seen, they are loved and that they belong.”
Latham has been speaking out against the LGBTI community for years, becoming particularly vocal during the 2017 marriage equality debate, during which he accused the community of a .
he claimed an “evil political program” was setting out to make children trans.
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Such a great man of principle – when he led the Labor Party to defeat against John Howard and then lost – he scurried away and sulked for a few weeks- never even had the courage on the night to come out and concede let alone thank the supporters who had worked so hard.
It was no surprise that the Corporate sector did not jump him with offers of nice gigs – instead he has been rattling around like a well worn barnacle looking for something to attach himself to. At last here it is- on the coat tails of Pauline H he’s now found the perfect vehicle to get his sorry butt back on the benches and his mouth firmly planted again on the public teat! It is doubtful he could have done it any other way. Is it any surprise he’s now picking soft targets to vent his moral indignation at – us – and particularly trans people? He’s not the first to use gay people to further justify his own existence and he won’t be the last.
Make Latham is completely off his trolley it seems!
As a white man I certainly don’t feel oppressed. The reason Mark Latham has been oppressed by so many people in his professional and personal life is not that he’s a white man, it’s that he’s a fucking arsewipe.
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