Chanting “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” and “Anti-choice, anti-Queer, Liberals are not welcome here”, 200 people on January 31 to oppose US President Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.
The rally also took a stand against those seeking to take that agenda in the same direction here.
Several speakers referred to the January 28 decision of the Queensland Liberal National Party government to stop young trans people from accessing puberty blockers and other hormone therapies from state-run clinics.
Greens MP Michael Berkman told that the decision was “pure dog whistling” and “far-right politics at its worst”.
He said the right used anti-trans rhetoric in the previous federal election and that it is “devastating” to see “basic health care is being taken away from children” for similar political agendas.
He pointed out that children who are not wanting to transition are still allowed to access puberty blockers for their health needs: only trans children are being denied care.
“We heard from a family this week whose child was one appointment away from getting that hormone therapy underway and now they’re just going to be denied that therapy for at least a year,” he said.
People carried signs saying “Hands off our bodies” and “Protect trans kids”.
Jonathan Strauss, a Queensland Senate candidate for Socialist Alliance who took part in the rally, told GL that “Building the left is the way to defeat the far right”. He said: “We’re going to have to build an alternative in the streets and the electoral arena.”
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