When you tell gigantic whoppers about what it means to be human as male and female, those lies will reveal themselves in grand and embarrassing ways.
This is what’s currently happening with gender ideology in Australia, and it is worth everyone’s attention in both hemispheres. These incidents serve as a grand demonstration in the madness of gender ideology. On Aug. 1, 2013, it became Australian law that a person’s sex was mutable and self-defined. Of course, this erased any objective meaning of what it means to be male or female.
Australia is now dealing with the fallout, and it is comically infuriating.
What has blown things up down under is a case called Tickle v. Giggle. Seriously. A very feisty female tech entrepreneur named Sally (Sall) Grover is being fined serious money by Australia’s federal court for kicking a bloke off her all-female social media site, Giggle for Girls. That man started posing as a woman in his late 40s and now presents as “Roxane (Roxie) Tickle,” trying desperately to pass as a woman. Few are buying it, and Grover certainly didn’t when her company reviewed Tickle’s personal photograph.
Robert James Bromwich, a sitting judge for the Federal Court of Australia, has declared in a legal ruling against Grover that Tickle’s “sex is now that of a woman” because 1) the man said so, 2) he legally changed his birth certificate to denote this wish along with his newly adopted name, and 3) he had sex mutilating surgery. Grover must now pay more than $20,000 because she does not, according to Judge Bromwich, “accept that a person’s sex can be a matter for self-identification.”
Gender activists in Australia have messed with the wrong woman. Grover is fighting back so fiercely, deftly and truthfully, that she said this week Facebook has permanently banned her from posting to her own page. Grover wryly responded, “I don’t want to labor the irony of being banned on a social networking platform while fighting in court for the right to ban men from a woman-only social networking platform.”
This injustice has gotten the attention of at least three common-sense senators in Australia’s Federal Parliament, and they are digging up all kinds of absurdity.
On May 26, Sen. Malcolm Roberts questioned officials from the Prime Minister’s Office for Women on whether they “stand with biological women or does this office also include men identifying with women?” The official answered, “We stand with all women, Senator.” He clarified, “So, biological women?” Then someone from the committee asked with shock, “What does that term even mean, that’s a ridiculous question.”
They fail to grasp the simple logic that you cannot protect what you cannot define.
Sen. Roberts was forced to get more specific and asked officials of the Office for Women, “Do you believe that a man born with male genitals and male chromosomes can be anything other than a male?” Officials curtly, but inaccurately responded, “This is a medical question, Senator Roberts. You’re better off in the Health Department, which is next week.”
Do you catch the revelatory irony here? The Australian Government’s Office for Women are admittedly not doctors, yet they are cocksure they know that a man can be a woman if he says so. That’s crackers, straight up.
The same day, Sen. Michaelia Cash keenly questioned Dr. Anna Cody, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, on legal pregnancy protections for “trans women” i.e., men who pose as women. Upon questioning, Cody correctly confessed, “Clearly, trans women cannot become pregnant.” This is indeed an important admission by the governmental official tasked with advocating for “trans rights.” She just admitted that “trans women” are not actually women, because women are humans with the potential for pregnancy.
Things got even stickier for Cody, though. Watch the full, confusing exchange below:
Ms. Cody has been here before, though. A year ago, Sen. Claire Chandler asked Cody about a curious comment she recently made before the National Press Club that “we are not one version of woman.” Chandler asked her to explain, given that, as Chandler explained, “a woman is an adult human female with XX chromosomes.” Cody responded, “There is great diversity in who we are as women,” and this includes “women with disability, lesbians, trans women, uhm, non-binary, there are a range of people who identify as women, who are women.”
Chandler then brought up the dreaded B-word. “Did you mean that biological males can be women?” Cody, laughing slightly in frustration, responded, “Men … so, I think we have different language that perhaps you’re using, than I would use.” She then confessed, “I don’t understand the term biological men.”
Cody has a Ph.D. in law, has worked as a lawyer and dean of a law school. She is not dumb.
She well understands what a biological male and female are. No one can pretend otherwise. Yet, that is precisely what she is doing. She just cannot admit it because she is too deeply catechized in the liberal politics of gender ideology. Like Ketanji Brown Jackson, she knows the whole artifice of her life’s work would come crumbling down if she admitted what any 4-year-old of average intelligence well knows.
This is the cultural moment we find ourselves in, and these current experiences from Australia are relevant to all of us across the world because they demonstrate the literal insanity a people must descend into out of loyalty to this mind virus masquerading as progressive compassion.
This is what gender theory does. It creates an alternative reality where the most universal and fundamental truth of humanity as male and female, boy and girl, man and woman, have no objective meaning but rather becomes whatever gender ideologists say they are in any given situation. And when you try to point it out, they play mind games with you. We must all resolve to never, ever participate in any way in this madness. We must always insist on living in the healthy space of reality, like these good Australian senators.
May there be more like them across the globe.
