The people in charge in Australia are, as a position of official policy, pretending to not know what it means to be human as male or female. This is shameful.
This is the age in which we live, and of course, this problem is not unique to Australia. Too many countries are playing right along with them. But right now, the lovely Land Down Under is facing that global embarrassment.
It caught fire recently with the ridiculously serious Tickle v. Giggle case the Daily Citizen reported on last week. In a travesty, Sally (Sall) Grover is being fined over $20,000 because she does not, according to sitting federal Australian Judge Bromwich, “accept that a person’s sex can be a matter for self-identification.” Sall Grover got into this trouble for kicking a man out of her women-only social media space she founded called Giggle for Girls.
The man now identifies as “Roxy Tickle” and no one is fooled. The Australian Federal Court sided with the man. As the Daily Citizen explained, “Tickle v. Giggle has gained international attention as it demonstrates the disastrous results when being female is redefined to include men claiming to be women.”
In short, the Australian judicial system has sided with gender ideology over reason, biology and scientific clarity. Sex can no longer be truthfully spoken of by Australia’s leaders.
This fact was colorfully demonstrated again just hours ago in testimony before the Australian Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee as Senator Michaelia Cash keenly questioned Dr. Anna Cody, Ph.D., Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner.
Cody’s official governmental responsibility is, as contradictorily explained by the Australian Human Rights Commission, to protect the rights of women and advocate for “LGBTIQA+ rights.” Of course, doing the latter obliterates the former and Cody demonstrated that fact today.
In official Senate testimony, Senator Cash asked Cody about pregnancy protections for “trans women” – that is men who believe they are women. Cody correctly explained, “Clearly, trans women cannot become pregnant.” This is an important revelation because it is an admission by the governmental official tasked with advocating for “trans rights” that “trans women” are not actually women, because women are humans with the potential for pregnancy.
And this is precisely where things got sticky for Cody.
Cash asks Dr. Cody if she is advocating if “trans women can potentially become pregnant, are you?” Cody says, “No” to which Cash responds, “Yep, because they are biological males, so you can’t obviously become pregnant.”
Senator Cash rightly confesses, “I am very confused,” because Cody expressed concern that a “trans woman” could apply for a job and be asked if he intends to become pregnant and might not get the job if he responds, “Yes.” Cody admits and is concerned this would be “unlawful discrimination on the basis of potential pregnancy.”
The senator brilliantly asks, “If they can’t become pregnant, how can you then become potentially pregnant?”
And it just devolves further from there. We must all note that it does so because Senator Cash is operating in biological reality and refuses to join Cody in the make-believe world of gender ideology, which the Australian government officially enacted on August 1, 2013.
This is what gender ideology does. It creates an alternative reality where male and female, boy and girl, man and woman have no objective meaning but rather become whatever gender ideologists say they are in any given situation.
Never, ever join them in this madness! Not even out of a false sense of kindness. Always live in objective reality, that which both Scripture and science hold.
That is precisely what Senator Michaelia Cash did, and we salute her.
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