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The bitterest pill to swallow for many left-wing women is that many of the fiercest and most committed supporters of gender identity ideology, are themselves left-wing women: Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, the Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Anna Cody, Australia’s Governor-General, Sam Mostyn, Victorian State Labor Premier, Jacinta Allan and paediatrician and gender medicine zealot, Michelle Telfer.
By the 2010s women in the Labor political establishment began treating “woman” as a movable, inclusion-defined category. The women who once said – “keep men out of women’s refuges to protect women,” now say, “it’s violence to keep men out if they say they are women” and “woman” is a construct and defining “women” in terms of biology is oppression.” The domestic violence shelter is now mixed-sex, the shortlist half male, the rape-crisis hotline staffed by people with beards and anyone who objects is ‘transphobic’ or ‘far right’.
Given the incontrovertible biological and psychosocial differences between men and women, gender ideology is at root a linguistic Ponzi scheme that survives by avoiding meaningful debate, critique and analysis.