In the Sunday Chronicle, Dame Carol has repeated her stand that the rights of sex workers and transgender people are being blocked by colonial laws. This necessitates a new law to legalize prostitution and same sex relations.
In her last statement, Dame Carol seemed to be saying that discrimination exists at the level of family, police and hospitals for rape victims and sex workers.
Therefore legislation has to be made to overbalance the ineffectiveness of the HIV/AIDS Management and Protection (HAMP) Act.
The problem with the HAMP Act is that it discriminates too much against the employer in Government and business.
It has been drafted to give full rights and no responsibilities to workers with HIV/AIDS and full responsibilities and no rights to business.
No mention is made of the responsibility of an HIV infected worker to give a good days work for a good days pay and be respectfully downgraded once unable to work.
A worker can use confidentiality as a weapon.
The HAMP Act leaves room for abuse by HIV-infected workers. It could be used against managers who want to know why the worker has come to the office only once in the last month. There is a wall of silence in Government and business on the effectiveness of HAMP.
We need never forget that Government and business are not to blame for the positive status of the individual worker.
Dame Carol seems to think that discrimination in families may be addressed by legislation. It can only be addressed by love.
Families may well be the victims in a relationship with a loved one with HIV/AIDS. There can be emotional instability, violence, hatred, paranoia, boozing, marijuana and danger to other family members.
Like the employers in Government and business under HAMP, the family can have all responsibilities and no rights. Some family members with HIV status can play tricks.
It is they who have rejected family. But to work for AusAID or the UN, they have to say that the family has rejected them.
If they do not say that, they will not get a job. Discrimination of family is all part of the ANTI-FAMILY strategy.
Dame Carol wants legislation to force the police to take seriously any complaints from transgender people and sex workers and women who have been raped. Gays and lesbians are not mentioned. It comes down more to having trained police in the right positions to handle such cases.
Last year, AIDS Holistics cared for a young woman who was in a broken marriage and being bashed by her boy friend who was a policeman. We gained much support from the police sexual violence unit and the police internal investigation unit. She is now reunited with her husband.
We read in the media of rapes of young girls that are handled by the police with arrests made. The secret is for the young person to complain in the company of family and with support of a doctor’s certificate.
Dame Carol really has to know that gender gay-lesbian-transgender are not significant factors in the reputable care organizations. She is talking outside her field.
Try Marie Stopes, Provincial AIDS Committees, Anglicare, AIDS Holistics, Simon of Cyrene, St Mary’s private hospital, Department for Community Development and the now defunct 3 Angels Care.
Legislation for decriminalization of gay and lesbian relations and sex workers is overkill. How many such people have ever been arrested?
But it will usher in a new era of the good life for expatriate gays and lesbians who will crowd their way to Papua New Guinea
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