Controversial New Law: 14-Year-Olds Allowed to Change Gender Without Parental Consent

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call it outside 10 minutes. It is 10 minutes outside of

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Australia. So I will be having a little bit of a chat about that.

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One of the things that we will be doing and I've got to do a

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series coming up in the next little while, starting this week

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, and it's going to be on Australian Politics and I'm

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going to start it with. First episode's got to be

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Australian the political system, how it works, how it's into the

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three federal state, local and how shitfully we are really

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really, really over governed quickly. And it's what have

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where I've a government. Some of the states are extremely over

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governed as resulted in hung parliament or a minority

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government down in Tassie. But we'll get into that and I'll

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explain that a little bit later during the week with a full

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video on the Australian political system. Then I'll go

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through and show you how we go through voting. Then I'll go

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through how each state operates, or mainly Queensland, because

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that's where I am. Then I'll go into politics in general and

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each week I'll talk about those sort of things. And that sort of

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leads me into this. There's a little place 10 minutes outside

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of Australia and I caught I got this from day met and average,

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so if you know who day met and average is, give me a thumbs up,

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because she he Barry Humphrey's was a legend. So the 10 minutes

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from Australia is a little territory called Australian

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capital territory, which is where Canberra is the capital of

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that, where our federal government sits.

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So this week and I don't care how controversial this is this

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week the ACT people government has decided to pass legislation

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that allows 14 year olds to change their gender and name

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without consent of their parents . What the hell is this world

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coming to? If they're 14, that means they can be charged if

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they do an adult crime, as far as I'm concerned, with the same

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repercussions. So no consequence , and I don't think that's going

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to happen to people. I don't think they want that to actually

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happen that 14 year olds get charged and treated like adults.

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So I got no idea who the Muppets are down there in Canberra that

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who've decided that 14 year olds can change their gender and sex

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without the parents consent. So what does that mean? It can mean

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a hell of a lot of other things that they can go and get. I

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haven't totally finished reading the bill. It's quite a lengthy

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bill, but they've more than likely been able to get puberty

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blockers, gender reassignment at 14 here in Australia.

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It's a little bit different than some places around the world.

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They can't vote, they can't smoke, they can't drink, they

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can't do a lot of things, including thanks for the thumbs

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up, including get married. It's illegal for an adult to have any

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sort of relationship with them. So why in the hell has a group

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of politicians 25 of them in fact in Canberra made that

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decision. And here's the other part to it that I get frustrated

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with. If that's their decision, did they take that to the people

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of Australian Capital, territory , act, and let them vote on that

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to make a decision? And I'm getting a little bit

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second-tired of a lot of politicians, political parties,

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people in power making these sort of decisions where they

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don't take them to the people and we don't get to have a say

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on them. So that's my little rant. But keep an eye out and if

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it happens in your state, make sure you're all over it and we

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don't want kids not letting themselves be kids.

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Because I sure as hell at 14, I was just worried about footy,

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cricket and what I was going to eat, not who I was, what I was,

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and I don't think anybody else was as well. So that's that Now

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the other reason why I'm going to do a few things a little bit

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different. During the week I had a little issue with my heart. I

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went off tap and I had a little bit of an episode where I was

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having a palpitation for a bad nail. Right arm went dead, ended

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up in hospital doing a stress test this Wednesday. So I don't

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think there's anything terribly wrong. I was diagnosed with SVT,

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which is like a skipping heart beat thing, but we've got to

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find out what it is and then I'll come back better and

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stronger. I won't be doing it as many lives. I'll be doing more

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properly cut videos because I've learned how to do that and yeah,

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so that's about it. So that's the little catch up.

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This week There'll be a fair bit on the agenda coming up with

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those sort of things Going up the sunny case. So we'll do a

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few reviews of places up there. And, yeah, absolutely looking

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forward to having a chat again with Colin. So I'll leave a link

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YouTube to where I interviewed Colin. It was a good chat. So

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he's confirmed when he gets back he'll be happy to do that. So

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