Chanting “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” and “Anti-choice, anti-Queer, Liberals are not welcome here”, 200 people marched through the city streets on January 31 to oppose the far right agenda of Donald Trump.
The rally also took a stand against the political forces in Australia who want to take politics in the same direction here.
Several speakers referred to the January 28 decision of the Liberal National Party government to stop young trans Queenslanders from accessing puberty blockers and other hormone therapies from state run clinics.
Greens MP Michael Berkman told Green Left that this decision was “pure dog whistling” and “far right politics at its worst”.
He said that anti-trans rhetoric was used by the right wing back in the previous federal election and that it is “devastating” today to see “that basic health care is being taken away from children” for similar political goals.
He pointed out that non-trans children are still allowed to access puberty blockers for other health reasons. Only trans children are being denied that care.
“We heard from a family this week who’s 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 told Green Left.
People carried signs saying “hands off our bodies” and “protect trans kids” and other signs supporting trans rights.
Socialist Alliance senate candidate Jonathan Strauss who participated in the rally told Green Left that “building the left alternative is the way to defeat the far right”.
“It’s going to be a street alternative, it’s going to be an alternative in the electoral arena and it’s going to be alternative ideas.”
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