In her recent article, Paula Gerber argued the decision of the Federal Court of Australia in Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd v Tickle was “good for trans rights and women’s rights”. With respect, I disagree and would like to explain why.
I believe the decision is bad for women’s rights — especially the rights of women to enjoy single-sex spaces and activities — and may also be bad for the rights of those from religious groups to control their spaces and activities in accordance with their faith commitments. I suspect the decision may also be bad for “trans rights” in the long term.
The overreach of the transwomen cause is so extreme and so bizarre that the pushback, when it comes, will be equally strong.
I have personally seem this Tickle character in Albury and been in a train carriage with him.
I can assure any one reading that he is a middle aged man with beefy forearms and male pattern baldness and no one who sees him will be under any apprehension at all that he is any thing other than male.
To argue otherwise is to delve into the arena of magical thinking.