The NSW Parliament crumbled to the trans lobby on 17 October and passed Alex Greenwich’s ghastly ‘Equality’ bill. Jeremy Fernandez, trans-lobby moonlighter, heralded the imminence of this triumph for misogyny on News at 7 by telling us the bill would ‘allow transgender people to update their birth certificates without gender-affirming surgery’. ‘Update’, Jez? Surely we’re all – including ‘transgender people’ – only born once? Surely the event can’t be ‘updated’?
To be fair, the news item as a whole wasn’t too bad, by ABC standards: It included a range of voices opposed to the bill, headed by a representative of Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights – it’s a rarity for the ABC to acknowledge that opposition to sex self-ID comes from anybody except Christians. So maybe a small posy is even in order for political reporter Nick Dole.