Stephanie Bastiaan
@stephbastiaan • 8,027 subscribers
Wife 💏, mother 👧🏼👧🏼👧🏼👧🏼👶🏼, Head of Advocacy @WomensForumAust. Unless indicated posts are mine & not on behalf of any org.
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Yumi Styne’s graphic sex-ed book for kids as young as 8, which teaches about porn, sexting and other unsafe sex acts, has been short-listed for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. What a disgrace from the Anthony Albanese Government. #Auspol 🔗
Stephanie Bastiaan417,823 views • 2 years ago
🚨BREAKING: Victorian parents outraged over the removal of single-sex bathrooms at Camberwell Primary School. ‘“We are deeply concerned that the school approved building plans and completely withheld from the parent community their plans for that – specifically, the exclusion of single-sex bathrooms,” Ms Woods told Sky News Australia. ‘She says parents’ main concerns are for girls’ safety, privacy and dignity.’ ‘“To ignore that, when so many people have expressed their concerns, is very egregious and it’s a breach of the duty of trust and care.”’ ‘WomensForumAustralia head of advocacy Stephanie Bastiaan says there is growing parental concern around safety and privacy, as more schools ditch single-sex facilities in favour of unisex.’ ‘“This seems to be a prominent problem and it doesn't matter if you're in country Victoria or in inner-city Melbourne, parents are saying the same message,” Ms Bastiaan said.’ ‘“Girls need the dignity of a private space, particularly when they're using the bathrooms. They shouldn't be forced in a situation where they have to share with boys.’ ‘“It disadvantages them and makes them feel very uncomfortable and that's the message we're getting from parents. Girls are simply not using the bathroom, they're holding on all day. That is bad for their health and it's unfair that they're in this position at all.”’ Read more from Caroline Marcus: #SpringSt
Stephanie Bastiaan99,523 views • 10 months ago
When sitting MP Will Fowles smashed through a Canberra hotel door in 2019, during what he later described as a period of drug and alcohol addiction, he was given taxpayer-funded leave to recover. Three years later, Labor endorsed him to run again, and he won Ringwood. Compare that with Warren Pickering, who has admitted to and apologised for drug use as a young man - well before he turned his life around, raised his family and served his country. People should not be defined forever by mistakes they have taken responsibility for and worked to overcome. The key distinction between the two cases is that Fowles’ conduct occurred while he was already in office, whereas Pickering’s predates his entire political involvement by nearly 20 years. There has also been far too little weight given in subsequent reporting to the testimony of Pickering’s children, who have strongly defended their father and described his ex-partner as a “narcissistic liar”. The fact that she continues to be elevated by some journalists as a reliable source to fuel further negative coverage is deeply disappointing, particularly given the impact this is now having on the children, who say their father protected and supported them. There is also a clear double standard in the way the two stories have been treated. Fowles’ conduct while in office was ultimately absorbed by his party and, three years later, by the electorate. Pickering’s much older history, meanwhile, is being treated in parts of the media as though it should be disqualifying. Voters did not appear to concerned by Fowles’ conduct in office when they returned him to Parliament, and I suspect it will be much the same with those already voting for Pickering and One Nation Australia. I joined Prue MacSween and Rita Panahi on News24 Australia to discuss the coverage. #SpringSt
Stephanie Bastiaan14,619 views • 1 month ago
🏉 Women and girls have the right to a safe and fair playing field. 🎥 I spoke with Hannah Foord at 7NEWS Adelaide today about the AFL’s appalling decision to allow biological males to compete in the Adelaide women’s football league, and the serious concerns we have for women’s safety. 👇 Read our letter to AFL CEO Andrew Dillon in the comments below! #SaveWomensSports #Auspol
Stephanie Bastiaan24,240 views • 2 months ago
In an extraordinary exchange with The Australian journalist Rachel Baxendale, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan could barely contain her disdain while being questioned about the fact that teachers are socially transitioning kids at school behind parents' backs. With her manipulation tactics, it seems Allan cares more about protecting gender ideology than vulnerable kids being preyed upon by activist teachers. #SpringSt
Stephanie Bastiaan74,006 views • 1 year ago
Forty-six Queensland kindergarten children have been nominated as ‘non-binary’ by their parents this year. Kids do not think or question if they’ve been born in the wrong body unless it's been suggested to them. It is reprehensible that adults are imposing gender ideology on kids and inflicting them with gender distress. I spoke to Peta Credlin on Akeem this week about this and my concerns about QLD kindergartens normalising gender ideology by asking for pronouns and gender identity on enrolment forms. #qldpol
Stephanie Bastiaan54,670 views • 11 months ago
🚨 Australia’s medical regulator Ahpra is investigating Jillian Spencer again. Not for harming a patient. Not for misconduct. For sharing a news article. The witch hunt against brave doctors speaking out about the harms of medical gender interventions continues. 🔗 Read more: #Auspol
Stephanie Bastiaan31,446 views • 6 months ago
“The punishment is in the process.” Sall Grover’s case is being funded by grassroots support, while Roxanne Tickle has been gifted a grant from The Grata Fund at UNSW Sydney, has pro-bono lawyers and barristers, and also has the backing of our taxpayer funded Sex Discrimination Commissioner, who briefed multiple barristers to argue sex isn’t real ‘amicus curiae’ to the court 🙄. It was great to chat to Danica De Giorgio on Sky News Australia after the #GigglevTickle appeal!
Stephanie Bastiaan56,540 views • 1 year ago
How many women need to be assaulted in custody by trans-identifying male prisoners before it's no longer a ‘niche issue’, Premier Peter Malinauskas? Why are the feelings of men more important than the safety of women when it comes to Corrections policy? I spoke to Danica De Giorgio on Akeem about the fresh allegations of abuse and indignity against Leslie ‘Krista’ Richards by a second female victim. #SAParli #GetThemOut
Stephanie Bastiaan46,663 views • 11 months ago
Victorian schools are teaching kids about gender ideology, and now it's been revealed that teachers can determine kids to be ‘mature minors’ and socially transition them at school without parental knowledge or consent. What’s equally bad is that Jacinta Allan’s Victorian Labor government is refusing to record how many kids this is happening to, having voted down a motion by Moira Deeming MP to keep this data. I spoke with Danica De Giorgio and james macpherson about my concerns on this matter. #SpringSt
Stephanie Bastiaan42,801 views • 11 months ago
🚨 It was great to join Rita Panahi on Akeem to discuss Jasmine Sussex’s (@jazzmoi3) case before QCAT. 🚩 Jasmine, a breastfeeding specialist, has been dragged to court by a trans-identifying activist who’s accused her of a range of things, including ‘vilification’ for expressing concerns over gender-confused men trying to ‘chest feed’ their infants. 🚩 Mothers are cautioned against consuming things like alcohol and caffeine while breastfeeding. Yet, despite the lack of safety and nutritional data on drug-induced ‘galactorrhea’ that also contains ‘gender-affirming’ hormones being fed to newborns from trans-identifying men’s nipples, organisations like the Australian Breastfeeding Association and Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, continue to support it. 🚩 Women like Jasmine shouldn't have to face court for voicing concerns. It’s unethical that babies are being subjected to these types of medical experiments to fulfil the fantasies of the adults who are meant to be caring for them. #Auspol
Stephanie Bastiaan53,997 views • 1 year ago
“The safety and wellbeing of all prisoners in Victoria's correction system is of paramount importance,” says Jacinta Allan. Yet it took just two months for male murderer Clinton Rintoull to sexually assault a female inmate after being transferred to a women’s prison. He was housed alongside his victim, a young mum with a baby in accordance with Victorian Labor’s prison policy. Gender ideology at the expense of women’s safety. Horrific. 📣 Sign our petition to #GetThemOut: #SpringSt
Stephanie Bastiaan24,347 views • 7 months ago
🚨 BREAKING: LNP - Liberal National Party announce they will halt the implementation of the recommendations from QLD Labour’s dodgy review into QLD gender clinics last year and confirm they do NOT support the expansion of QLD gender services. 🚨 The Health Minister Tim Nicholls MP has also also reiterated his concern of puberty blockers being prescribed to kids. This practice should be suspended immediately in line with international recommendations. 👏 Nonetheless wonderful to finally see some strong leadership on this issue David Crisafulli, Jarrod Bleijie and Tim Nicholls MP. Look forward to seeing this evolve. #QLDpol
Stephanie Bastiaan40,642 views • 1 year ago
🎥 🔥 OPINIONATED: Last Friday I joined Danica De Giorgio on Sky News Australia to share a couple of strong opinions about Anna Cody’s ‘damage control’ op-ed in Australian after #PregnantManGate - and Julia Gillard’s reflection on experiencing misogyny as PM, which somehow didn’t include the part where her government wrote the fiction of gender ideology into the Sex Discrimination Act and erased the definition of woman.
Stephanie Bastiaan12,350 views • 4 months ago
⚽️ Extraordinary revelations this week by Ben Fordham Live on 2GB Sydney. Female footballers in Sydney’s Women’s Super League have been forced to sign individual agreements stating they will not forfeit games - even if they feel unsafe competing against a team with male players who identify as women. 🤯 And even more absurd are the claims made this week by Australian Human Rights Commission President Hugh de Kretser, who said at the National Press Club on Wednesday that he can’t see a clash between women’s rights and trans rights. 💰💰💰Why are we paying this bloke half a million dollars a year?! ✍️ Sign our petition to #SaveWomensSports: 🎥 Check out Caroline Marcus’s documentary Fair Game: #Auspol
Stephanie Bastiaan14,413 views • 5 months ago
You’d think one sexual assault by a male trans-identifying prisoner would be enough for Victorian Labor to impose a blanket ban on men in women’s prisons. It wasn’t. Instead, Australian Labor would rather risk women’s safety than admit that gender ideology is a failed experiment built on a lie. Because the moment they concede biological sex matters in prison, the logical conclusion is that it matters everywhere else too. 📣 Sign our petition to #GetThemOut: #SpringSt Jacinta Allan
Stephanie Bastiaan17,830 views • 7 months ago