Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is endangering children by using disputed activist-driven suicide statistics to justify her government’s policy of secretly transitioning the gender of children in schools without their parents’ knowledge or consent.
During a heated exchange with The Australian’s Rachel Baxendale, the Premier had a meltdown and accused parents, medical experts, and journalists of “reckless commentary” after being challenged over her Daniel Andrews-era policy.
Ms Allan cited the activist claim that “transgender kids are 15 times more likely to commit suicide” — a figure lifted from the website of LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, which provides no source for the claim.
This statistic has been thoroughly discredited. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has confirmed that “there are no reliable national data on rates of suicide and self-harm among LGBTIQ+ communities in Australia.”
Likewise, Dr Hilary Cass’s landmark independent review of the UK’s Tavistock gender clinic found that “the evidence does not adequately support the claim that gender-affirming treatment reduces suicide risk.”
“Jacinta Allan is justifying secrecy and parental exclusion using activist talking points that are false, emotional, and dangerous,” said Bernie Finn. “This is not leadership — it’s recklessness dressed up as compassion.”
Family First first warned about this deception in the lead-up to the 2022 Victorian election. In a public statement that year, the party exposed how the Andrews Government’s policy of enabling secret gender transitions at school would lead to harmful medical pathways — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery — without parental consent or medical oversight.
“It’s chilling that, three years later, the very dangers Family First warned about are being dismissed by the Premier as ‘reckless commentary’,” said Jane Foreman. “Instead of listening to parents and evidence-based medicine, the government is defending activist ideology in classrooms.”
Family First has renewed its call for the ‘mature minor’ policy to be abolished immediately, and for all LGBTIQA+ indoctrination programs to be removed from Victorian schools.
“We also call on Liberal Leader Brad Battin to show courage and commit to abolishing this policy and to restoring parental rights and common sense to Victorian education,” Finn said. “If the Liberals won’t take a stand for parents and children, Family First will.”
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