The new ruling by the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal partly upholds an appeal by Canberra newsreader Beth Rep, who was challenging an earlier finding that she had vilified and victimised Queensland transwoman Bridget Clinch.
Ms Clinch, former military man Captain Matthew Clinch, was in 2020 awarded $10,000 damages against Ms Rep, over Facebook posts referring to transwomen as males.
Ms Rep appealed and earlier in November the appellant panel partly upheld the challenge, finding that only nine of 46 posts were vilification and that there had been no victimisation.
Further, the appeal tribunal ruled that discussion on trans issues was “in the public interest” and that “calling a transwoman a man will not necessarily be vilification”.
Source: Calling-a-trans-woman-a-man-‘not-necessarily-vilification-a-Canberra-court-has-ruled.pdf
Telling the truth should never be deemed ‘vilification’. Perhaps Matthew Clinch would be better advised to looked into his medical background (including when in utero) to ascertain whether his disconnect between his sex and his ‘feelings’ is attributable to medical malpractice. Given the hundreds of thousands of pregnant women prescribed feminising hormones (in the form the DES or DEX) – which has been vehemently denied by those in the pharmaceutical and medical industries – it is Big Pharma and Big Medicine who should be sued (not truth telling newsreaders or journalists or scientists).