“Is your group anti-trans?” was the leading question media asked me as I stood outside Parliament at our #WomenWILLSpeak event in March this year. The re-framing of our aims and concerns whittled down to a falsified characterisation is par for the course in the fight for women’s rights and child safeguarding.
It is a privilege to have one’s male sex denied at the expense of women’s rights. That I and other women’s rights campaigners are asked the same question repeatedly, means the conflict with women’s rights is recognised, if not downright obvious.
We are used to being shouted at ‘but it’s just a tiny minority of people. None of this affects you!’ Yet that claim is as misleading as the rest of their claims.
Policy and legislation affects everyone. They know this and we know this. That is why their lobbying power was created in the first place; to ensure their self-styled laws guarantee everyone is implicated in their ideological belief system despite the inherent disparities.
One legislative change allows anyone to swap or create a new sex marker on their birth certificate once every 12 months without the need for medical intervention. Meanwhile, their other legislation insists on irreversible medical intervention for children, or heavy penalties like extortionary fees and possible lengthy jail time might be recommended by an eager, unelected commission who are tasked to educate and advise the fate of anyone who dares try to protect children from suffering life-long medical harm.
The tyranny-like intention is writ large for anyone paying attention, as we have been for sometime now.
There are only two sexes. We are all either born female or male and the sex of each child is observed at birth, not assigned. No child is born in the wrong body and puberty is not an illness. In some cultures including mine, the very suggestion that any of our children could be born in the wrong body is taboo, but the gender ideological lobbyists and protesters that front up to our events to infringe upon our rights are not interested in respecting cultures they don’t belong to. They don’t even respect their own culture!
Speaking out in support of women’s right to exclude men and protect children from indoctrination and quack medicine, comes at a high cost for many women.
All women involved in this work have lost family, friends, community, volunteer roles, paid jobs and whole careers. Most women - myself included - have received multiple death threats and rape threats; some of those threats directed to our children. Check out terfisaslur.com if you don’t believe me. In stark contrast, we women have never reciprocated with the hate they level at us.
In the wake of the success of our #WomenWILLSpeak rally in March, Women’s Action Group are proud to be back on the steps of Parliament today, facilitating a platform for ordinary women from all walks of life and political persuasions to speak, to listen and to be heard.
We require a strong police presence at all our public events not due to our law abiding conduct, but because of the marauding thuggery, aggression and violence by those that protest our peaceful assembly. It is their tactic to frighten women into submission and silence. These men who claim to be women, hate women.
We know what we are up against. We are facing the loss of our freedoms, our autonomy and our democracy. We know our Governments and Institutions have been utterly captured by this insidious ideology that seeks to dehumanise us all in law and in life.
To stand idly by and do nothing and say nothing, is not an option for us.
This is our hill.
Dear Michelle: I'm sorry that I missed yesterday's rally (17th Aug) but want to let you know I support your struggles and confirm my faith you will eventually conquer.
if you are a trans woman there are a few things that you need to understand. First of all is that you are still a man because you can't change your biological sex. It's okay to dress any way you wish and to adopt any superficial, stereotypical attributes of women that you desire. Live your life. No one should care, I certainly don't. However, because women are entitled to be treated fairly and to enjoy privacy from men there are certain things that are prohibited to you and me because we are men. You can't compete against women in most sports because it would be unfair. You can't go into women's private places like restrooms and locker rooms because that would make them feel unsafe. Finally, if you are a criminal you certainly can't be imprisoned with women.
That's it, just like me.