Aboriginals Have Been Added to the Acronym

“In so called ‘Australia’, the voices of First Nations LGBTIQ+ people are often ignored.” Yes, here we go. “Gender binary is a construct that was enforced on this land through colonisation.” Of course it was. Anybody surprised by that statement? Even though I was always led to believe there was something called men’s and women’s business where certain places and practices were strictly for men or women only as part of ancestral law, well before colonists arrived. Anyhoo, in Australia, I always thought this was the acronym, well, technically, an initialism, but let’s run with acronym. Either way, they’re both abbreviations to ostensibly make things easier in speech and writing. In a previous video, I somewhat jokingly said that Canada is more inclusive because it’s got a longer acronym: 2SLGBTQIA+, where 2S stands for Two-Spirit, which is used to indicate a person whose gender identity comprises both masculine and feminine spirits.

Australians, not to be outdone by the Canadians, have seemingly added some more letters to our acronym. I was reading this article on the ABC about the Cass Review in England, which recommends the National Health Service significantly limit the prescribing of medications — colloquially known as puberty blockers — for people aged under 18. In the article, they quote the Australian Medical Association who use the acronym: LGBTQIASB+. They seem to have used the letter B twice. I thought it must be a mistake, but no, it’s not.

Just to be clear, I’m not here to attack individual people – people are who they are – I’m just here to point out the madness that has become this acronym.

So I went to the AMA’s website and found their position statement on LGBTQIASB+ Health. Curiosity got the better of me and I wanted to find out what the S and the B stood for. Well, they stand for Sistergirl and Brotherboy. Excuse my ignorance, but what the hell does that mean? As I kind of hinted at at the start, it’s to do with Aboriginality. “Aboriginal and To..