A decision in the Federal Court last Friday confirmed a shocking reality that many of us already knew; it is now illegal for women to publicly make a single sex space in Australia, under the current operation of the Sex Discrimination Act (1984) (SDA). The SDA is no longer fit for purpose, or rather, its purpose is now to threaten women into submission.
The destruction of the sex category in which women hold civil rights is not “unintentional consequences” of gender identity protections. The legislation that Justice Bromwich ruled on in the Federal Court in the Tickle V Giggle case is the SDA operating exactly as it is intended to operate by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), who have been strategically removing the ovaries from the SDA for decades.
The SDA originally recognised that the female body had a reproductive path that placed women and girls at a structural disadvantage in society. In the 40 years since its inception, the SDA has been the victim, like so many women and girls, of unbridled molestation.
The SDA, has been altered 56 times since 1984, often at the instigation of the Australian Human Rights Commission who administer the Act, and most famously by the Gillard Labor government who removed the definitions of “man” and “woman” from the SDA in 2013.
To be fair, Gillard may not have predicted the SDA would be used in tandem with “self ID” legislation, and that this pairing would be accepted by the Federal Court. Anyone who has been studying this issue as long as I have will know that this is absolutely the intention of those who mould modern government policy.
The way Bromwich disregarded concerns for the constitutional validity of gender identity legislation and the international human rights concerns it raises, is a clear indication of how the legal establishment in Australia have been authors and enablers in the removal of women as a sex class.
Tickle was funded by the Grata Fund, which is listed as a legal aid charity, who fund social justice causes by donors who give “strategic gifts”. The Grata Fund took this case specifically to cement the pairing of gender identity with self ID in the law.
The Australian Human Rights commission has destroyed the SDA and it must be disbanded. Gillard’s Amendments to the SDA in 2013 must be repealed, as should all mention of gender identity in the SDA.
Source: (4) Women beaten with their own rights. – by Edie Wyatt
All we need now is an opposition courageous enough to push this as an election issue.
But I’m still waiting for it.
And I notice that Pesutto is still in charge in Victoria…
I can’t help wondering what would have happened if all and sundry applicants had been allowed to join, and every member had been enabled to use the facial recognition technology that clarified the sex of members. That way it would have empowered individual members to make choices on the basis of their individual preferences. Mind you, I don’t even know if that is technically possible. Sal has done a great job in the circumstances of defending women’s right to choose who they spend time with, but it’s costing a lot of money and runs the risk of setting legal precedents that will continue to make women’s lives difficult. Her work has also shown just how determined the misogynists are to make females bow down before them once again.