[I]t’s inevitable the application of the rights of transgender people – who wish to be defined by their gender identity and not their sex at birth – will collide with the sex-based rights of women and gay people.
[L]eft-of-centre parties (never mind universities) appear incapable of grappling with the aforementioned conflicts with empathy, nuance and courage. As a result they risk devouring themselves and losing public trust.
Which – . . . – brings us to the current controversy involving Melbourne councillor Rohan Leppert, a rising star of the Greens, or at least that’s how he was referred to before his private Facebook comments came to light last week, igniting hundreds of members to demand the party’s state executive “resolve significant concerns about trans-exclusionary influences on the party”.
What’s striking is that Leppert is accused of transphobia for fearing that affirmative care might be suppressing a young person’s lesbian identity. Surely we could flip this around to accuse his critics of homophobia in seeking to silence his fears.
“Trans women are women” is less an affirmation these days than a political demand for women to cede their sovereignty and spaces to people who have not medically transitioned. At “women-only” baths, in changing rooms, in rape shelters, at Girl Guides, in setting up women’s prizes, in sport, in prisons.
Here’s the clincher for present purposes. In July, Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination commissioner Sarah Bolt ruled that lesbian events that exclude transgender women carry a “significant risk” of breaching legislation.
In Victoria, the Andrews government has laudably passed significant legislation on transgender rights, but it has not anticipated that gender-based rights might conflict with sex-based rights.
As for the Greens members seeking to muzzle Leppert, I’m curious about why they cannot muster equal compassion for all groups.
Source: Trans rights shouldn’t automatically trump rights of other groups
I agree, why not equal compassion for all, Why are all other groups being down played and not listened too around issues that are arising for them? What does Inclusion mean?…Only Trans now matters because that is how it is playing out and it is really unfair!!!!
When two tribes go to war (or one peaceful tribe finds itself under attack from a more powerful one), the most common tactic is ‘divide and conquer’. It is also often said that ‘the first casualty of war is truth’ – and that ‘a lie told often enough becomes the truth’. Moreover, ‘the further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.’
Hence, when those fostering war gain control of the loudspeaker and insist there must be ‘no debate’ about a particular lie they are spreading, it should be no surprise that their lie – told often enough – will end up being believed as true, and be used to advance a hatred of those who attempt to continue to speak the truth.
Consequently, when the lie that ‘transgender people exist’ is promulgated, those who attempt to correct that lie find themselves hated and vilified – such that the voices of the oppressed are further silenced.
It is not a lie to state that ‘people have a right to live in dignity’, but that has not been the case for homosexual women for decades – not since men, and homosexual men in particular, began to spread a lie that their transvestite menfolk were ‘transsexual’. Those men then began to spread a further lie that sex – an irrefutable biological reality – was not the truth (despite it staring us all in the face). Instead, they insisted, how they felt was the definitive ‘definer of truth’. Biology, they insisted, was a social construct. Hence, they were able to disguise the truth about transvestism, and morph it to ‘transsexual’ to ‘transgender’.
Nowadays, people who do not know the history of the lie of ‘transgenderism’, have come to accept it as truth – to the point where many will ally with ‘no debate’ hatred toward those who continue to insist upon the truth. It is true that most of those who accept the ‘transgender’ lie as truth are heterosexual and were never personally impacted by the war being waged against homosexual women. Indeed, many heterosexuals (men and women) – being a tad homophobic themselves – were unsympathetic or indifferent about the decades long war being waged on homosexual women by men who lie about being ‘allies’ of homosexual women.
The liar men controlled the means of communication and insisted upon ‘solidarity’ amongst homosexuals, so homosexual women’s voices were guilted/gaslit into silence (in precisely the same way as we now see the voices of women in sport being guilted/gaslit into silence when they object to liar men choosing to identify as ‘transgender’ so they can beat them).
Sadly, the (almost certainly well intentioned) author of this article starts off on a false premise “first, transgender people exist” – whereupon she epitomises that other maxim, ‘people who don’t know their history are set to repeat it’.
Are some people who are so deluded as to believe they can be ‘transgender’ – or even ‘transsexual’? Absolutely, but they were coerced/gaslit into believing their delusion was more than a delusion (as has mainstream society). But, to continue to delude the deluded is not simply unhelpful, it was, is and will continue to be harmful (to both the deluded and the victims of the deluded).
As Germaine Greer warned us, women have no idea how much men hate them – including many men who pretend to adore women, while unashamedly gaslighting them as they stab them in the back. It should be obvious that what you see is not what you get, and yet the liars continue to successfully recruit ‘useful idiots’ among the cohort of unimpacted women to do their bidding.