This week, Janet Albrechtsen has graciously noticed that there is a problem with our Sex Discrimination Act, in our flagship centre-right newspaper The Australian. In the wake of the train-smash testimony from the counsel for the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, in the Giggle V Tickle appeal in the Federal Court, we seem to be finally getting some mainstream media attention on an issue I have been accused of being obsessed with.
The reason I research and write as a gender critical feminist is not because I’m obsessed, it is because there is a massive failure across the Australian media landscape to notice an ongoing wave of human rights violations by our government that has become systemically corrupted.
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As much as I love the media coverage of Giggle V Tickle, I am afraid I can’t sit back and cheer the pretense that this is all a problem with human rights gone too far, with feminism, and with the “woke takeover” of the bureaucracy. We are not facing unintended consequences of badly drafted, well-intentioned legislation, but deliberate and strategic corruption of the democratic process of lawmaking with international, ideologically based, population management experiments.
As well as Sall Grover, who has been abused and ignored by Australian media, lawmakers and trans-activists, I have come to know many women in the last five years who have shown remarkable bravery and determination, highlighting female erasure in Australian law, and its dire consequences for the most vulnerable of women and girls.
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Four years ago, gender critical lawyer Anna Kerr was evicted by the City of Sydney for her opposition to laws that The Australian are only just noticing. A group of radical feminists, including Anna, has been a consistent presence in opposition to gender identity in Australia for decades and have been present in opposition to every bit of stupid legislation that has led to the erasure of sex we see now. While mainstream press wouldn’t publish a word in opposition the TQ, the radical feminist publisher Spinifex Press have published 20 gender critical books.
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Janet Albrechtsen is correct in her comment that this mess needs to be corrected by Parliament, but there is no political will or courage right now, with even the center-right of politics calling the gender identity issue a “culture war”. To gain political will, we need public awareness, and to get public awareness, we need journalists to start doing their job.