Like many lesbians, I have watched the expansion of the TranScam since the early 1990s. At that time, it was only lesbians who were troubled by the men claiming they needed entry to women-only and lesbian-only spaces.
In Australia, they divided the lesbian community to such a degree that the Lesbian Centre in Sydney could not continue. Money was returned to donors and the building sold. Sappho’s Party in Adelaide was taken to court, and the Lesbian Festival had to go underground in Melbourne.
For lesbians, this has been a long battle, a battle that has picked up speed since around 2007 when the Yogyakarta Principles were developed. These “private” principles, that are dressed up as official, have had a profound effect on entrenching the TranScam into governmental policies from the UN to the EU, to state support in Victoria and Queensland in Australia, to Joe Biden’s Title IX Equality Law in the US. His “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation” conflates and confuses gender identity with sexual orientation as do similar laws already institutionalized or in process in Australia. The Coalition of Activist Lesbians (CoAL) in their submission to the Tasmanian Law Reform enquiry notes:
Who would have thought that the lesbians and gays who fought for the freedom NOT to conform to damaging female or male stereotypes and heterosexuality, would now have to resist an ideology which asserts that anyone who does not conform to those stereotypes needs to be fixed by medically transitioning to another gender.
Source: The TranScam Is Sweeping Over Australia
** Now ** I get it about the “The YOGYAKARTA PRINCIPLES”.
I never understood it before. OMG !!!
The mistake was to even think that feeling included in terms like ‘gender identity’ as if it meant ‘lesbian sexuality’ forgot and forgets that lesbians are not just lovers of their sex, but are part of the ignored and oppressed human species which deBeauvoir called “The Second Sex”(the female sex). It means they are not part of being gay, because the latter share their biological sex with the hegemonic ‘The First Sex’! Which is why in the LGBT there is one non dominant sex, ie. the “L” part of the female species