That led me to this from a year ago, which I think I missed at the time:
Seriously??
According to The Australian, yes:
Lesbians will be breaking the law if they exclude biological males who are transgender from social events, after a controversial discrimination ruling set to become a national test case.
Lesbians will be breaking the law if they exclude biological males who are transgender from social events, after a controversial discrimination ruling set to become a national test case. The law will be forcing women to let men attend their social events. The law might as well say women will be breaking the law if they refuse sex. The law might as well be written by the fucking Taliban.
Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination commissioner Sarah Bolt has ruled lesbian events that exclude trans-women carry a “significant risk” of breaching legislation.
A woman herself, and she drops women’s most basic rights into the dispose-all.
In a decision earlier this month not yet publicised, Ms Bolt refused to grant an exemption to allow the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance to exclude “biological men” from lesbian events.
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Transforming Tasmania said the exclusion of trans-women from lesbian events was discriminatory. “Ultimately, it’s denying the reality of the existence of trans-women, in fact all trans-people,” said Transforming Tasmania spokesperson Charlie Burton.
No, it isn’t denying the reality of the existence of anyone, it’s denying the reality of men becoming women by an act of will or assertion. The men are real, and nobody denies they’re real, but their self-description is a lie.
“Trans-women are women. Full stop. It’s baffling that (LGB Alliance) don’t accept that … Trans and gender-diverse people … have long been an integral part of the broader community.”
Trans women are men. “Full stop” doesn’t make a lie true. It’s not a bit baffling that the LGB Alliance and anyone else knows people can’t change sex. What’s baffling is the eagerness of so many people to pretend the lie is true.
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As Dr Johnson said, the Law is an ass (ie a donkey for American readers.) This will force all lesbian events towards privatisation; admission by printed invitation only, etc.
It’s a pretty horrifying for the law to require associating with groups that you have no shared objectives with, and may have conflicting objectives.
In the Canadian constitution that’s “compelled association” and it’s not on.
Yeah. Like making atheists go to church. For a long time, there were no atheists, because no one could risk admitting to it. For a long time, there were no gay men, because no one could risk admitting to it.
Pretty soon, there may be no lesbians, and also no women, because no one will risk admitting to it. Pronouns? Declare she/her, and face the block.
So this is a forced return to the days when lesbian social events were private and hush-hush and attended by women who were in the loop and knew where to meet and when. I remember them well.
This case has recently hit the news again: Lesbian ready to make High Court bid to ban anyone born male or ‘with penises’ from events
For more context on the way the case has been developing:
Jessica Hoyle v Discrimination Commissioner
Why single-sex spaces are a battleground for transgender rights
Update on case of Jessica Hoyle v Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner
No penises, please: Lesbian who wants to ban trans women and men from her public parties comes under fire – but she fires back: ‘It’s humiliating being told to include someone with a d**k
Tasmanian lesbian launches court challenge to discrimination laws
“The law is a ass…”
Sorry Omar. That would be Mr. Bumble, i.e. Charles Dickens, in Oliver Twist.