More of the slippery slope at Dept of PM and Cabinet

[Black Orchid]

Scott Morrison has said he expects his department to remove signage that gives people the choice of bathroom based on their gender identity.

Morrison was asked about the bathroom signage in an interview with Ben Fordham on 2GB this afternoon, after Channel Nine’s political editor, Chris Uhlmann, posted a photo of the sign from the Barton office on Twitter.

The sign on its toilet door said that the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet was “committed to staff inclusion and diversity” and invited staff and visitors to “please use the bathroom that best fits your gender identity”.

Morrison said he had spoken with departmental officials about the signage, saying it was “political correctness over the top”.

“It’s ridiculous,” he said. “I don’t think this is necessary – I think people can work out which room to use.

“Honestly, this is why we call it the Canberra bubble.

“I have a very clear view about this and I am sure this will be sorted.”

Asked whether the signs would be removed, Morrison said: “That’s what I expect.”

Morrison has previously criticised gender diversity policies, saying a recent Cricket Australia decision to release a policy that aims to allow transgender and gender-diverse people to play the sport at the highest level and guidelines for community cricket was “heavy-handed” and “mystifying”.

The policy allowed players to compete in line with their gender identity, rather than the sex they were born with.

“I think it’s pretty heavy-handed – to put it pretty mildly,” he said. “There are far more practical ways to handle these issues than these heavy, mandatory ways of doing it, and I’m sure these issues have [been] quite carefully and practically managed at a club level already.

“So why there’s a necessity to get the sledgehammer out on this is mystifying me but I think we need to get the issue in perspective and ensure we manage it calmly.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... r-identity



Well done ScoMo! What a joke we are becoming and what a waste of money as well. Squat toilets at the ATO and now this.

[brian ross]

Oh. dearie, dearie, me. ScoMo tries to make up for his political correctness, hey?

[cods]

Oh. dearie, dearie, me. ScoMo tries to make up for his political correctness, hey?

why do you deem it unPC for females to object to males piddling all over the toilet seats

as a female the thought of gender males who are still males... using toilets meant for females makes me sick to my stomach..

please stop the rot!

[brian ross]

Oh. dearie, dearie, me. ScoMo tries to make up for his political correctness, hey?

why do you deem it unPC for females to object to males piddling all over the toilet seats

as a female the thought of gender males who are still males... using toilets meant for females makes me sick to my stomach..

please stop the rot!

I am unsure why you are such a misandrist, Cods.

[sprintcyclist]

Oh. dearie, dearie, me. ScoMo tries to make up for his political correctness, hey?

why do you deem it unPC for females to object to males piddling all over the toilet seats

as a female the thought of gender males who are still males... using toilets meant for females makes me sick to my stomach..

please stop the rot!

I am unsure why you are such a misandrist, Cods.

It's probably due to the high percentage of men here who are argumentative and small minded.

[Wally Raffles]

Oh. dearie, dearie, me. ScoMo tries to make up for his political correctness, hey?

why do you deem it unPC for females to object to males piddling all over the toilet seats

as a female the thought of gender males who are still males... using toilets meant for females makes me sick to my stomach..

please stop the rot!

I understand why anyone would be angry about urine on a toilet seat, but, I know of no Home where there is a female only or male only toilet.

[brian ross]

Oh. dearie, dearie, me. ScoMo tries to make up for his political correctness, hey?

why do you deem it unPC for females to object to males piddling all over the toilet seats

as a female the thought of gender males who are still males... using toilets meant for females makes me sick to my stomach..

please stop the rot!

I am unsure why you are such a misandrist, Cods.

It's probably due to the high percentage of men here who are argumentative and small minded.

Good self-description there, Sprint. Isn't it something you pride yourself on?

[Nicole]

I don’t find Sprint either argumentative or small minded. Now can you please address Bogans post to you in the Climate Change thread, Brian

[brian ross]

I don’t find Sprint either argumentative or small minded.

That is your opinion, "Nicole". It is mistaken. Sprint is an Islamophobe. To be an Islamophobe, one needs to be small minded. You're right he isn't argumentative 'cause he has realised he never wins an argument based on his Islamophobia. Tsk, tsk.

[Black Orchid]

I don’t find Sprint either argumentative or small minded.

That is your opinion, "Nicole". It is mistaken. Sprint is an Islamophobe. To be an Islamophobe, one needs to be small minded. You're right he isn't argumentative 'cause he has realised he never wins an argument based on his Islamophobia. Tsk, tsk.

You get very bitchy when challenged Brian and that's a very childish trait