What dignity?

The grotesquerie is off the charts. Every word of this is drivel.

Transgender women could have their dignity “undermined” and be made to feel “inferior” if a lesbian group is allowed to ban them from events, a court has heard.

That makes no sense. How can men’s “dignity” depend on permission to join lesbian groups? It’s the other way around in fact. It’s grotesquely undignified for men to slap on some lipstick and demand to join lesbian groups.

The Lesbian Action Group (LAG) has been in the Federal Court this week, appealing a decision by the Human Rights Commission (HRC) that ruled the group could not legally exclude transgender women from its public events.

Which amounts to ruling lesbians can’t have lesbian groups, which surely is not legal.

The LAG does not believe people can change sex and wants to hold political and social events exclusively for “lesbian-born females”. This means no males, even those who identify as women, could attend.

Why “even those who idennify as women”? If anything this means men who idennify as women are the last people who should be allowed to attend. It’s rude, it’s intrusive, it’s demanding, it’s dishonest, it’s manipulative, it’s fucking outrageous. All good reasons for not allowing them to attend.

The community organisation, which has about 15 members, has been denied this exemption twice before — once by the HRC and again on appeal to the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART). It has now appealed to the Federal Court, arguing lesbians have unique needs and interests and should be able to hold events without “biological males” present.

What possible reason do men have for wanting to attend anyway? Other than the fun of pestering and persecuting women?

The HRC opposes the appeal and today told the court banning trans women from such events would go against the purpose of the Sex Discrimination Act and come at “too great a cost”.

“Trans lesbians see themselves and seek to manifest themselves to the world as women and lesbians. The exclusion here seeks to perpetuate the view that actually they are neither of those things,” senior counsel for the commission, Celia Winnett, said.

Blah blah blahdee blah. Trans sharks see themselves and seek to manifest themselves to the world as fish and sharks. But they are not sharks; that’s what the “trans” bit means. Humans can be wrong about how they see themselves. Look at Trump for instance – he thinks he’s brilliant, funny, charming, strong, brave – the list is long. He’s wrong about all of it.

Ms Winnett gave examples of exemptions, such as those issued to Australian lead mining companies in the 1990s which allowed them to only employ men because lead exposure could put women’s fertility or unborn babies at risk.

She said this was different to the current application, which had the purpose of excluding trans women just because they were transgender.

Wrong. So wrong. So stupid. Not because they were “transgender” at all: because they were men.