Phoenix

Woman, Mother, Grandmother, Gen X

[Rachel Baxendale @rachelbaxendale]

A neuropsychologist who went looking for evidence that puberty blockers were safe for children’s brains found “absolutely none”. She says Australia needs to reckon with that uncomfortable truth. https://t.co/zTyfVHxKco via @australian

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

https://t.co/Yrws6oa19d

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

A wonderful timeline of WTF happened to Australia’s sex discrimination act by @aawaaadvocacy.

Link 👇

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

We’ve all had a few days to sit with @JuliaGillard’s declaration of whoops and as the minutes go by, the angrier I get. Not just at the admission that, basically, it was a “regret” to open up the legal category of women to men, but at the reluctance to admit it was wrong.

And the fact that it’s only now, after amazing UK women & men are putting on pressure by turning up to her events to remind of her of the whooosy, that she dares to say anything.

Not when @jk_rowling was getting countless r*pe & d*ath threat from the very men these kind of laws were changed to include.

Not when a man in his 50s took a pregnant woman (🙋‍♀️) to federal court, using that very specific Australian law change & institutional capture to his advantage.

Not when @ActiveLesbians were told by the Australian Human Rights Commission that heterosexual men who claim to be lesbians must be included in lesbian events.

Not when @martina came under attack for defending women’s sport, years after already battling for LGB rights.

Not when @KirralieS was dragged through courts for bringing attention to MEN who claim to be women in womens sport.

Not when that very league told the women in that sport if they so much as walk off the field because men are on it *they* will be punished.

Not when media started reporting on school girls not drinking WATER at school because boys were in the only unisex bathroom available to them & no adults would help them.

Not when women prisoners finally got word to the outside that they were in cells with MALE SEX OFFENDERS, locked up with them only because the Gillard amendments to the sex discrimination act (arguably) allowed it.

Not when Jasmine Sussex’s life was turned upside down for stating the fact that men cannot breastfeed infants, and because men can be women in law suddenly she’s the bad guy.

Not when the sex discrimination commissioner told senate estimates that men who claim to be women can have pregnancy protections in law but women can’t have single sex spaces, thereby interpreting the Gillard amendments to give men protections they don’t need while taking away women’s protections we do need.

Not when countless women in Australia and around the world were and are being punished for saying NO to this absolute bullsh-t that men can be women in law.

She said nothing until it started to interrupt her day in the mildest of ways. It’s pathetic.

[Angie Jones @angijones]

More stupid and deceptive “journalism” this time from @theheraldsun.
If you read this and didn’t know anything about it you’d think women’s rights activists could become violent at any moment. Why don’t they report accurately that one side (the women, obviously) held a peaceful rally and deranged trans rights activists, including a former MP, tried to breach the police line and harm women.
https://t.co/R7dEr3lfk9

[Evidence Based Treatment @DoNoHarm79]

What does it say about the ‘trans’ activist counter protestors when riot police were needed to keep speakers safe at the “Restore Women’s Rights Rally” in Melbourne today? 🇦🇺

[Rachel Baxendale @rachelbaxendale]

The Gillard government was ­explicitly warned that its 2013 changes to the Sex Discrimination Act would result in transgender women being entitled to access ­female-only spaces. https://t.co/vfjbH2rmS2 via @australian

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“I have applied to the High Court after the Full Federal Court dismissed the Giggle v Tickle appeal. I am seeking a clear declaration that single-sex spaces for women are lawful and that “woman” remains a biological category in Australian law.”

Me on last nights @SkyNewsAust 👇

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

It’s quite amazing that the state will give women this much police protection against trans activists so we can safely hold a rally advocating for women only spaces… but not actually allow us to have women only spaces even for safety.

[Angie Jones @angijones]

It’s absolutely ridiculous that we need this many cops to keep women safe in Melbourne.

[Helen Lewers 15541 💚🤍💜 @HelenLewers]

AHRC discriminates against lesbians. #RestoreWomensRightsRally

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“You can’t argue that this law is working. You’ve got all these women being dragged through courts and tribunals… The Sex Discrimination Act is excluding women. It’s excluding the group it was created to protect. It’s not working. Fix it” - me to The Aus.

Link 👇

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Trans people have always had access to sports, all sports, and still do ,
just need to be in the correct sex category. Very simple

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

I welcome this decision by the U.S. Supreme Court @scotus_wire, having filed an amicus brief for this case in support of maintaining female-only sports and spaces.

The ruling vindicates years of hard work, courage, and determination by hundreds of female athletes, women’s organisations, and scientists.

Most importantly, it affirms what we have argued all along: that sex is a material reality, and that accurate terminology matters.

Speaking of language, it is worth clarifying that the decision does not bar transgender athletes from participating in sport, it just states that makes are not eligible to participate in female sport categories. It is regrettable but not surprising that some major media platforms and others are (again) misrepresenting the decision.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A man (Samantha Tempest, here abbreviated to ST) is arguing in court that he belongs in a group for menopausal women. It is pointed out to him that menopause is the cessation of ovulation and that, being a man who never started, let alone ceased, ovulating he does not belong in such a group. He disagrees. He says he's had 'menopausal symptoms' like hot flushes and brain fog. This is like me claiming to have been in the army because I once shot an air rifle and quite like khaki.

[MsCarriggofjustice @MsCarriggofreal]

3 more sleeps.♥️💪♀️
Remember 12 noon SHARP!!!

[Stats For Gender @statsforgender]

A study of 100 detransitioners showed 76% did not inform their clinicians that they had detransitioned

The majority (55%) felt they did not receive an adequate evaluation from a doctor or mental health professional before starting their transition1.

https://t.co/DjnuzBNVDS

[Bernard Lane @Bernard_Lane]

"As of last year, the Royal Children’s Hospital [in Melbourne] had more than 1200 patients and 120 started taking cross-sex hormones. These and puberty blockers can lead to infertility. It affects brain and bone development and turns young people into medical patients for the rest of their lives.

"Nobody should allow this without very, very good evidence about the benefits – and multiple studies now show this evidence simply does not exist."

From an opinion article today in the mass-circulation Herald Sun newspaper by David Limbrick, a Libertarian member of Parliament in the Australian state of Victoria. @_davidlimbrick

[Rachael Wong @RachaelWongAus]

🚨🚨 This week, @AustralianLabor and the @Greens blocked not one, but TWO bills in the Senate to amend the Sex Discrimination Act, and restore rights and protections for women and girls on the basis of biological sex.

They know their position to allow men claiming to be women in female-only spaces, services and sports is indefensible, so they won't even debate the issue.

What an absolute disgrace.

Thank you to @OneNationAus Senator @PaulineHansonOz and @LiberalAus Senator @SenatorCash for attempting to restore safety, fairness, dignity and sanity to our laws.

📣 Tell @AlboMP enough is enough: https://t.co/R2K4FyE9D0

#FixTheSDA #IStandWithSallGrover #Auspol

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

The only reason prerequisite to being a “transwoman” is to be male.