Category: Transgenderism

Tickle v Giggle Judge Falsely Rules That ‘Sex Is Changeable’ | Reality’s Last Stand

Yesterday, a judge of the Federal Court of Australia delivered a judgment on Australia’s landmark case, Tickle v Giggle (TvG). Despite its lighthearted and seemingly childish name, this case is one of the most significant regarding women’s sex-based rights worldwide. At its core, TvG will determine whether a person’s subjective “gender identity”—a vague concept lacking scientific grounding—will take precedence over an individual’s objective biological sex under Australian sex discrimination law.

Source: Tickle v Giggle Judge Falsely Rules That ‘Sex Is Changeable’

Trans woman wins landmark discrimination case against female-only app |The Age

Roxanne Tickle outside court.

A transgender woman was awarded $10,000 after a judge found she had been indirectly discriminated against when she was barred from a female-only social media app in a case billed as a landmark test of trans rights law in Australia.

The Federal Court found that Roxanne Tickle had not been directly discriminated against but had been the victim of indirect discrimination and ordered the app – Giggle for Girls – to pay her $10,000 plus legal costs.

Paula Gerber, Professor of Human Rights Law at Monash University, said the finding was a huge victory for transgender women.

She said the case sent a clear message to all Australians that it is not lawful to make decisions about whether a person is a woman based on how feminine they appear.

“The judge made it very clear that it is a breach of the Sex Discrimination Act to treat transgender women differently from cisgender women. So that’s a great victory,” Gerber said.

“It has really put a spotlight on the discrimination and the exclusion that they face and has sent a message that people who do this are going to pay a price.”

Anna Kerr, principal solicitor from Feminist Legal Clinic, said she was disappointed but not surprised by the ruling.

“Unfortunately, legislation and case law conflating gender identity with biological sex have effectively undermined the ability for women to have any spaces or services free of males,” Kerr said.

“The hard-fought rights and gains of the women’s liberation movement are being rapidly dismantled by decisions such as this, leaving women and children vulnerable in many contexts, including in services supporting victims of sexual and domestic violence, women’s prisons, public toilets and change rooms and in women’s sport.”

Trans woman wins landmark discrimination case against female-only app | SMH

Roxanne Tickle argued Giggle for Girls illegally discriminated on the grounds of gender identity after her access to the app was revoked.

Trans woman Roxanne Tickle has won her discrimination case against women-only social media app Giggle for Girls, which had barred her from the service, in a decision billed as a landmark test of trans rights law in Australia.

The Federal Court found that Tickle had not been directly discriminated against but had been the victim of indirect discrimination and ordered the app to pay her $10,000.

Justice Robert Bromwich read out a summary of his decision on Friday and noted that Giggle’s founder Sall Grover removed Tickle when she saw her photo and “considered her to be male”. Giggle had argued that the discrimination was permitted because, in its view, Tickle was of the male sex and that was unchangeable.

But, Bromwich ruled: “These arguments failed because the view propounded by the respondents conflicted with a long history of cases decided by courts over 30 years”.

He said that “on its ordinary meaning, sex is changeable”.

In a social media post after the decision, Grover said she had expected the decision but “the fight for women’s rights continues”.

Source: 12ft

LGBT Activist Facing 37 Charges of Child Sexual Abuse Worked Closely With Police, Endorsed Trans Youth Groups Promoting Puberty Blockers and Gender Identity to Children | Genevieve Gluck

The founder of an LGBT Pride organization in Surrey, UK worked with closely with local police while committing vile crimes against children. Stephen Ireland, 40, the head of Pride in Surrey, was ultimately arrested by the very officers who had been promoting his “anti-hate” efforts and campaign to teach gender ideology to local children.

On August 14, Ireland, along with one of the volunteers from his organization, were both arrested and jointly charged with 15 offenses, including conspiracy to kidnap a child and conspiracy to sexually assault a child.

Ireland was separately charged with an additional 22 offenses, including the rape of a child, the sexual assault of a child, and six counts of making indecent photographs of children. In all cases, the victim is said to be under the age of 13. His colleague, David Sutton, 26, was charged with an additional 7 similarly serious offenses.

Disturbingly, since founding Pride in Surrey, Ireland had been actively leading Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) seminars, and was a patron of the trans activist charity Educate and Celebrate.

Educate and Celebrate mysteriously shut down in January following years of controversy, including outrage after one of their patrons, trans-identified male comedian Jordan Gray, stripped naked on a live television program and played a keyboard with his penis.

Source: LGBT Activist Facing 37 Charges of Child Sexual Abuse Worked Closely With Police, Endorsed Trans Youth Groups Promoting Puberty Blockers and Gender Identity to Children

Tim Walz owes Democrats some answers on ‘gender identity’ and children | Kara Dansky

I have some questions for Minnesota Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz (D), and I hope journalists will start demanding answers from him.

Specifically, does he stand by his 2023 decisions turning Minnesota into a “trans refuge,” especially given the overwhelming evidence that what is euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care” harms children?

So the effect of this law is that Minnesota courts have the power to remove children from their own parents’ custody if the parents (inside or outside of Minnesota) wish to protect their children from harmful hormones or surgeries.

The phrase “gender-affirming care” sounds nice, but as investigative journalist Gerald Posner explained in the Wall Street Journal last year, such interventions are more like a human experiment that borders on child abuse.

This follows on the April 2024 publication of the Cass Report, a nearly 400-page report commissioned by the UK’s National Health Service. It found that there was only “remarkably weak evidence” to support the use of puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones for minors, concluding that such “care” is “built on shaky foundations.” In the face of the evidence, five European countries have already severely restricted the use of such interventions.

I say all this as a lifelong Democrat, feminist and leftist who is active in the group Women’s Declaration International, and who until recently served as the president of its U.S. chapter.

Rank-and-file Democrats all over this country want to vote Democrat in the November presidential election to defeat Donald Trump but feel uneasy doing so because of Democratic Party leadership’s insistence on sacrificing children on the altar of “gender identity.”

Those Democrats deserve some answers from the governor. I hope journalists will start asking the tough questions and getting us the answers we deserve.

Source: Tim Walz owes Democrats some answers on ‘gender identity’ and children

Eggs and water balloons thrown as protesters face off at Women Will Speak rally in Melbourne | Women | The Guardian

About 20 people initially attended the planned #WomenWILLSpeak rally that commenced at about 11am, Victoria police said in a statement.

They were outnumbered by 150 protesters from another group, who were “throwing eggs and water balloons at the speakers involved,” the statement said.

A 36-year-old Brunswick woman was arrested at the scene for allegedly assaulting police and was released pending further inquiries, police said.

A live stream of the rally posted on YouTube by Women’s Action Group showed a barricade of police officers in yellow vests separating the #WomenWILLSpeak event from a large crowd gathered with signs.

In the same live stream, some of the protesters in the Women Action’s Group camp can be seen holding signs reading “trans women are men”, “inquiry into gender medicine now” and “no male cheats in women’s sports”.

On Wednesday, a Facebook page titled Trans Queer Solidarity posted about the rally, saying: “We need to out-number them and limit their recruitment like we have before.”

Source: Eggs and water balloons thrown as protesters face off at Women Will Speak rally in Melbourne | Women | The Guardian

WDI USA Files Its First Amicus Brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Little, et al. v. Hecox, et al. | WDI USA

On August 14, 2024, the U.S. chapter of Women’s Declaration International filed its first-ever amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case is Little, et al. v. Hecox, et al. In this case, the state of Idaho enacted a law protecting female-only sports and a man named Lindsay Hecox (represented by the ACLU) filed a legal challenge, claiming that the law violates his rights under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment (Bradley Little is the Governor of Idaho who signed the law). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ultimately ruled in favor of Hecox and the state asked the Supreme Court to review the matter. Our brief urges the Court to take the case and explains that the Ninth Circuit’s ruling is in direct conflict with Articles VII and VIII of the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights. Former WDI USA president Kara Dansky is counsel on the brief.

Source: WDI USA Files Its First Amicus Brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Little, et al. v. Hecox, et al. | WDI USA

Report: thousands of US girls underwent trans ‘top surgeries’ – UnHerd

A report from the Manhattan Institute this week revealed that “gender-affirming” mastectomies for patients under 18 are more common than previously believed.

While cross-sex genital surgeries are rare in the US for both adults and minors, mastectomies — also known as “top surgery” in the context of transgender medicine — are widely available to minors and are the most common transgender surgery for this population. Around 5,000 to 6,000 girls underwent “gender affirming” double mastectomies in the US from 2017 to 2023, according to the Manhattan Institute, and at least 50 of those patients were younger than 12-and-a-half years old.

The actual prevalence of these surgeries is likely considerably higher than the latest estimate, since it relies on health insurance data and therefore does not include procedures obtained without using insurance.

Proponents of cross-sex medical interventions downplay the prevalence of these surgeries. The Human Rights Campaign declared last April that “gender affirming surgeries are NOT performed on children”, and the Association of American Medical Colleges wrote, “GAC surgery among youth is rare, experts say.” Marci Bowers, plastic surgeon and president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the leasing standard-setting organisation for transgender medical treatments, has made a similar argument. “Surgery really is not done under the age of 18, except in severe cases . . . And even that is rare, I think the estimates are something like 57 surgeries under the age of 18,” Bowers said in 2023.

But their insistence that surgeries for children are rare should not be confused with repudiation of such surgeries. On the contrary, activists strongly oppose restrictions on trans surgeries for kids.

Source: Report: thousands of US girls underwent trans ‘top surgeries’ – UnHerd