Money well spent

Nothing is too good for the gender-special.

LGBTQ group ACON given $7 million to produce non-gendered language cancer campaign meant for Indigenous and migrant women

Who needs a “non-gendered language cancer campaign”? What’s the point of such a thing? To spare the tender feelings of the tiny minority of people who think they’re the sex they’re not? To spare those purported feelings by putting real women in danger? Real women who are indigenous or migrant and thus face language barriers? A super-special luxury cancer campaign crafted to obscure the language around cancers that happen to women, in order to make the gender-special feel cuddled and looked after and pampered. The hell with indigenous and migrant women, yeah? They’re just there as a photo op for men who like to pretend to be women.

The federal government awarded a $7 million contract to a LGBTQ lobby group to produce a women’s cancer campaign using non-gendered language, despite the public health message meant primarily for Indigenous and migrant women.

Despite the fact that the message was meant for, that is.

Documents obtained under Freedom of Information reveal the Department of Health and Ageing granted the lucrative funding to ACON, which describes itself as NSW’s “leading HIV and LGBTQ+ health organisation”, without the contract going to tender.

The seven-figure deal was struck in spite of a quarter of women surveyed raising concerns about the use of “confusing” and “political” language in the campaign.

Spend 7 million bucks to make health information for women more obscure, for the sake of the feefees of a small number of petulant men.

Why? Why would anyone, even the most gender-besotted, think this is a good idea?

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