Today, I am proud to say, that I am an officer of the Supreme Court of NSW.
After WW2, the world declared 'NEVER AGAIN'. We failed. Tomorrow, Aussies are given the opportunity to display outrage on our biggest stage #FreePalestine#IsraeliNazis#PalestinianHolocaust#auspol
The Tickle v Giggle judge asserted that, “on its ordinary meaning, sex is changeable.”
No, the simply existence of the letters M or F on a birth certificate is not the "ordinary meaning" of sex. Those letters refer to real things, and those things cannot be changed in reality.
The fact that there is no law of physics preventing some government employee from printing out a new birth certificate for someone with a different letter in the field for sex than the original doesn't mean "sex is changeable."
Printing out a new ID listing me as 7-feet tall would not suddenly enable me to dunk a basketball.
The map is not the territory. Simply changing letters and numbers on a legal document doesn't change the underlying reality.
@Nikki79P@palladianblue@coachblade I am the only injury in 20 years as the trans person in a wheelchair from a smaller c i s femal.
No trans rugby players where studied, i was also then only trans rugby player in the room with world rugby and myself sport engalnd and the IGR where not allowed to speak
The sex, gender or chromosomal status of an athlete does not create any inherent danger or risk to safety. Rather, it is dis- parities in strength, speed & endurance and/or physique of each individual athlete that may, depending on the sport
My final act in Vancouver before driving back to Edmonton is to appear in studio with Oger to debate men being able to self-identify into women’s sports.
See statement that appeared on Facebook this morning.
I look forward to the discussion.
#RespectWomensSports
@coachblade The sex, gender or chromosomal status of an athlete does not create any inherent danger or risk to safety. Rather, it is dis- parities in strength, speed & endurance and/or physique of each individual athlete that may, depending on the sport
@KirstiMiller30 Unfortunately, by UK legislation and policy, yes - though the prevailing culture is that facilitating such impact sports are a GOOD thing to do. At the moment, informed consent is not possible for adults, let alone u18s.
What rubbish the law in Australia does not allow sports to ban sis women like they can to Roxy Tickle and other trans women if they have an unfair strength speed endurance or physique advantage.
My daughter woke up with less rights as a female human then she had yesterday in Australia
The men who want to be her have more rights than she does
#TickleVGiggle
@katherine_deves What rubbish the law in Australia does not allow sports to ban sis women like they can to Roxy Tickle and other trans women if they have an unfair strength speed endurance or physique advantage.
@RachaelWongAus@AFL@WomensForumAust At community level all trans players applications are considered by the AFL’s GDP committee for consideration. A trans athlete can be legally exempt from playing under the community levels guidelines and state and federal laws if an unfairness or safety disparity exists
@LucyZelic@AFL To exclude bigger and stronger trans AFLW player on safety grounds creates
a precedent that would argue for the exclusion of equally big and strong sis athletes.
From a safety perspective, it is the disparity in size and strength that is relevant, not the source of the disparity.
@LucyZelic@AFL cannot be managed safely within the rules of the sport.
Importantly, the 2020 Policy states it ‘will not arise simply from the proposed participation of a gender diverse person’.