VIDEO: Erasing homosexuality and sex: The Australian Department of Health & Aged Care.
The most distressing thing is, the title isn’t even click-bait.
I had to make a video for this; the written word simply didn’t suffice.
TL;DR SUMMARY: The Australian Government is attempting to re-define "gay" and "lesbian" as having nothing to do with sex, and they are attempting to phase-out the terms "homosexual" and "same-sex", and "sex" entirely.
Please share this with as many people as you can, as to my knowledge, nobody else is or has covered this.
Apologies if I seem a little skittish, this is the first time I’ve ever recorded myself doing – well, anything, really. I’m (at the moment) more of a writer than I am a speaker.
And listen: I understand more than most that word usage changes over time, it is inevitable. But it’s the usage that changes, not the definition. Meaning and context and definition may be added to words over time, but their core definitions do not change on a fundemental level. This, as presented in the video, is not how language naturally evolves.
You can access the document yourself here: National Action Plan for the Health and Wellbeing of LGBTIQA+ People 2025–2035
I am not gay however support gay rights, how I read this is that I can declare myself as a female, though in a male body, then because I like females can declare myself as a lesbian, and then claim protected status due to my declaration when in fact I am clearly not a lesbian. All this does is break down the protection status of the rights that LGBT people have worked so hard to get over many years.