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2024: Asked whether MOH will provide and subsidise gender reassignment surgery
To ask the Minister for Health (a) what were the specific reasons behind the cessation of gender confirmation surgery in public hospitals in 2014; and (b) whether the Ministry has any plans to reinstate the provision and subsidy of gender confirmation surgery in public hospitals, similar to the arrangement prior to 2000.
https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/gender-confirmation-surgery
2024: Attended Pink Dot
WP MPs Jamus Lim, He Ting Ru and Louis Chua appeared at the event.
https://mothership.sg/2024/06/workers-party-progress-singapore-party-pink-dot-2024/
Score Before Pink Dot 2024
2022: Attended Pink Dot
Some will know that my colleague and fellow Sengkang GRC Member of Parliament Assoc Prof Jamus Lim attended a Pink Dot rally this past June in his personal capacity. As shared in a media release for Pink Dot 14, "We are living in an increasingly divided world. The ability to reach across the spaces between us, for dialogue and co-created understanding, is what will keep us safe."
https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/#/sprs3topic?reportid=bill-607
Among the attendees was Lim, who attended in his personal capacity.
The MP for Sengkang took a photo with someone named Albert Chua (cellculture on Instagram).
The caption read, "And with the WP MP. Thank you for supporting!"
https://mothership.sg/2022/06/jamus-lim-wp-mp-pink-dot-2022/
2023: Said the repeal of Section 377A was "almost a no-brainer"
As a policymaker, the repeal was almost a no-brainer. I am against discrimination in all forms, and the law was discriminatory. Opponents had concerns about what repeal could mean for society, but a prospective fear can’t possibly trump an actual one. They pointed to how the law, while on the books, wasn’t being enforced. But that’s silly; even though it wasn’t, there’s a cloud that hangs over those in such relationships. It also makes a mockery of the rule of law to have laws that we say don’t matter…
So while we can justify including marriage as an institution, the definition of what marriage entails should adjust to contemporary norms. That’s why we can’t hard-code marriage as male-female within it.
https://www.facebook.com/jamusjlim/posts/pfbid0wjYaAxKjA819nYDwLX22vBFSgxwrGK5XpSCCke81BT6ayaWKB49B8922X2Q2RY6Pl
2022: Acknowledged concerns of a slippery slope
In the many letters written to me by the residents of Sengkang, those that have expressed their concern over the repeal of 377A have, almost uniformly, cited their reservation over how such a repeal would open the floodgates to revisions to the traditionalist interpretation of marriage.
This concern has not only been limited to those who are more religiously inclined. I have spoken to residents who would otherwise hold no strong views on 377A, nevertheless underscore their wish that the heterosexual definition of marriage be, somehow, protected.
https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/#/sprs3topic?reportid=bill-607
2022: Section 377A is an insult
But an untenable status quo, however entrenched, does not imply that all is well under the surface. For those who keenly feel the yoke of discrimination, suggesting that we should keep things the way that they have always been – simply because that is how it has always been – is more than simply benign neglect. It is an insult to their plight, to the burden that they have been bearing, perhaps silently, until now. It is like telling a prisoner that their desire for freedom is an attempt to stir up unrest while they are in jail.
https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/#/sprs3topic?reportid=bill-607
2022: Likened LGBTQ identities to race
As recently as the 1960s, interracial relationships were limited in some form in as many as 31 US states, as it was in Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa. While I am not equating the two, my point is that my own relationship as well as that of my parents – which occurred between two different ethnicities – would have fallen afoul of the law...
Think of the symbolism behind what a law, any law, implies. Suppose, for a moment, there was a law prohibiting relationships between individuals of different races, and further suppose that a similar legal precedent and political compromise exists, in that those who are in such a miscegenated relationship are assured that they will never be prosecuted.
https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/#/sprs3topic?reportid=bill-607
2022: Suggested that same-sex attraction could be innate biologically-led behaviour
The usual retort to such scenarios is that it is contrived; humans are not animals and, after all, we can always exercise self-restraint. Some argue that because same-sex attraction is ultimately psychological, it can be overturned, with intervention and counselling. Perhaps. But I am not here to question the natural biological order which I respect. After all, it is a physiological reality that asexual reproduction among mammals is impossible. And hence, the male-female pairing is necessary to ensure the continuation of these species. Even so, for certain individuals, such attractions are deeply embedded in what may be regarded as innate biologically-led behaviour.
https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/#/sprs3topic?reportid=bill-607
2022: Supported the constitutional amendment
It is for this reason that I do not see a decision to alter the Constitution as essentially a compromise for merely the sake of political expediency, necessary for the repeal of 377A. Rather, it is the manner by which the state will echo what society, as a whole, believes in.
https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/#/sprs3topic?reportid=bill-607
2021: Asked MOE to enforce gender pronoun usage in class
To ask the Minister for Education whether there are any plans by the Ministry to systematically compile preferred gender pronouns for students, subject to the consent of parents, and to ensure that teachers respect such pronoun usage in class.
https://www.moe.gov.sg/news/parliamentary-replies/20210202-preferred-gender-pronouns-for-students
2021: Yale NUS College not a hotbed for far-left thinking
The college itself has also, in the past, featured in the news for having a class on dissent (led by local playwright Alfian Sa'at) ignominiously cancelled. Incidents like this led some to believe that the uni was a hotbed for dissident, far-left thinking...
I think some of the resistance to a liberal arts education as either useless or inherently left-leaning is misplaced.
https://www.facebook.com/jamusjlim/posts/362324078882855/?paipv=0&eav=AfZzVhVFdbVRm5mQ7kd6FAEmkrKmjY3dCHUYwrueZuvApnN8HUwnI7jneXPkcZ2xGxY&_rdr
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