“It’s important to note that the current government is trying to dismiss this issue as a ‘culture war’ while they’re simultaneously trying to rebrand themselves as the party against misogyny, not connecting the dots that refusing to acknowledge what a woman is & cement women’s rights in law is an act of extreme misogyny”
“But what riles me about Gillard’s misogyny schtick is that she presided over the greatest act of legislative misogyny against women in this country we have ever seen when she gutted the sex discrimination act to completely removed our biological rights.”
This is 100% true.
99.9% of people do not wish to attempt to reject their biological sex. They still need to be protected in legislation. It is a fools errand to demand that 99.9% of people give up their legal protections for the .1% (“tiny”, she says it herself).
If you want legal protections for the “tiny, marginalized, disadvantaged community” that rejects biological reality, find a way to do it that doesn’t take away legal protections for the 99.9% of people who do need protections on the basis of sex.
The SEX discrimination commissioner is paid $400,000 per year to deal with this issue. But there you go, I solved the problem for you, for free.
Julia Gillard was the first woman prime minister of Australia when the definition of “woman” was removed from discrimination legislation, creating a legal loophole for bad actors to interpret the law in favor of men who claim to be women over actual women & girls.
If she said something like, “this was never the intention. A monumental mistake has occurred. I will work with the women & girls of Australia to ensure their rights are clear & protected”, it would be a pivotal political moment and restore the “woman’s rights” legacy she desperately craves by doing world tours about being… a woman.
Until then, she should expect to be questioned about her disastrous decisions while in power.
In the meantime, telling women to stand up for themselves then shutting down women who do just that just looks… stupid. Get used to being challenged on your absurd hypocrisy, @JuliaGillard.
That photo is quite extraordinary. Cody looking rudely at her phone, pulling her chair away while her peer, Lorraine Findlay, is speaking (in support of LAG), with Findlay sitting at the opposite end of the table. You have a problem, @HughdeKretser
Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner determined that we should have been granted an exception to the SDA to hold a lesbian event at a public venue. Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner didn’t. Let that sink in:
https://t.co/zEapUqskLf