The organisers of the 2021 census are facing a formal human rights complaint alleging they failed to properly count LGBTIQ people.
They allege the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the then assistant treasurer Michael Sukkar unlawfully discriminated against Long, their family and other LGBTIQ people by failing to ask questions about sexual orientation, gender diversity and variations in sex characteristics in the census. The form asked where Kaison’s mother and father were born, erasing Long’s role as a parent. Kaison is nearly two and his parents believe knowing about other “rainbow families” would foster his sense of belonging.
The complaint argues it is discriminatory that the census did not include a separate question about sexual orientation to capture information about all people who were gay, lesbian or bisexual.It also criticises the decision not to collect information about sex characteristics to enable the proper counting of people who are born with intersex variations.
niltiac A birth certificate is a document for the child. Not its possibly narcissistic parents.
niltiac Oh , lesbians that want to appear straight …..boring story ! Do a story on why women actually feel the need to be pretend males …… societal rejection of butch lesbians, porn, acceptance etc etc …do in-depth journalism.
niltiac Stop obsessing about your sex binary or lack of, you narcissists. First world problem.
niltiac They aren't invisible at all. This is ridiculous... why would the census need to collect personal sexual preferences. Leave that to scientific and psychological studies.
niltiac OMG enough whining. Yes we know your there. Get over it.
niltiac I suspect there’s no going back from this silliness. But I would accept it if it was separated from sex and biology. They can add an extra category called gender, like we include data on religion.
niltiac Intersex is an outdated term; it’s DSD, made up of over 40 medical conditions. Every human, even those with DSDs, is either female or male. There are only 2 fetal developmental pathways: Wolffian & Mullerian. They are mutually exclusive and irreversible. Sex is binary.
niltiac How can gays feel invisible when all they do is incessantly nag and complain?
niltiac Life is tough if all you worry about is census data.
niltiac WHY would a census (a people count) WANT to ask about sexual preferences? WHY would they care? WHAT does it matter? Isn't that all being treated the same? Dear LGBTIQ, get over yourself.
niltiac Oh please... the government knows about 'rainbow' families. They know who you are. They know more about you than you think.
niltiac These forms are antiquated, it is an invasion of my privacy for a start, the Taxation Office know who I am, The Department of Immigration know who I am as I've travelled overseas and have a passport, the Electoral Office know who I am. Now they want us to fill in another form
niltiac Why? So you can force everybody to spill their most private details to the government? I’d have refused to answer such invasive questions on principle. My sexual preferences and physical characteristics are none of anyone else’s business, certainly not the bureau of statistics
niltiac It does not matter what someone identifies as. It matters what someone is. Subjective truth (belief you are something you are not) is NOT objective truth (something you are).