Victoria Police fought a legal battle with a transgender woman for more than two years before admitting it incorrectly referred her to men's support services.
That’s pretty clearly just a badly thought out label for the program though, there’s other similar things under their own separate and similarly poorly named headings. I’m also not sure it’s fair to draw that conclusion about the attitude of the government from that example - there’s a whole bunch of gender-neutral support groups on that same page, including the very first entry:
Safe Steps provides specialised support for individuals facing family and domestic violence, regardless of age, gender, ability, or cultural background. We’re here to listen, understand your situation, and guide you to safety.
That a program exists specifically to help male abusers via therapy isn’t an endorsement of the idea thst female abusers don’t exist, it’s a sign that Australia follows the abuse trends of every other country, where men are orders of magnitude more likely to be violent abusers.
Male access to therapy is fucking terrible across the entire world, so a specific program set up to help remedy that, even in a way with a narrow focus, is not what I would call a problem.
That’s pretty clearly just a badly thought out label for the program though, there’s other similar things under their own separate and similarly poorly named headings. I’m also not sure it’s fair to draw that conclusion about the attitude of the government from that example - there’s a whole bunch of gender-neutral support groups on that same page, including the very first entry:
That a program exists specifically to help male abusers via therapy isn’t an endorsement of the idea thst female abusers don’t exist, it’s a sign that Australia follows the abuse trends of every other country, where men are orders of magnitude more likely to be violent abusers.
Male access to therapy is fucking terrible across the entire world, so a specific program set up to help remedy that, even in a way with a narrow focus, is not what I would call a problem.