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 rape & death 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.
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