Save women's sports
I’ve caused a minor fuss this week with my article in the Spectator
Supporting the weightlifting athletes saying No Thank You to the reordering of their sport on lines of gender identity. Most of the responses are positive, but I did receive the odd predictable inbox messages with hidden content. I just delete them. Why males think pictures of their private parts is an argument against the importance of biological sex I do not have a clue.
Please sign the Parliamentary petition that Save Women’s Sport Australia has managed to get going. It covers not just the importance of women and sport but the reinsertion of sex into discrimination legislation.
I will start to make this a bit more of a regular update when I get my head around this new medium. thanks for signing up.
I got some feedback on my treatise of our gender-critical movement and I amended it with the following;
• Humans are sexually dimorphic creatures, male and female.
• Sex will stay with a person from conception to death.
• Males and females have different propensities to violent and sexual crime. There is no evidence that these propensities alter with a change in gender identity.
• Gender is a word we use to describe the meanings and stereotypes that cultures place on sex.
• Gender identity is the word we use to describe an inner sense of one’s sex (many people deny that such a feeling exists, that this is a modern cultural and legal invention to de-pathologise gender dysphoria as a variation in human gender expression. Ironically leading to the medicalisation in natural gender non-conformity)
• Gender Identity does not change sex.
• Gender is not a stable concept to encourage children to place identity in.
• Gender identity placed over sex in law will lead to an erosion of women’s rights and safety.
• Gender non-conformity should never be pathologized as a symptom for cultural and medical intervention.
• Gender Dysphoria (GD) is a well-documented serious mental health issue that should be dealt with under the supervision of a medical professional.
• Children cannot be transgender. Gender non-conforming (GNC) children are to be accepted as such.
• “Trans” identity is a broadening category that no longer exclusively describes a person with Gender Dysphoria. It not only includes “non binary” but also includes individuals who have an orientation or paraphilia called Autogynephilia. Women need the ability to exclude these individuals from places where women and girls are in states of vulnerability
• Masculine boys and feminine girls should be free to wear the clothes of their choosing.
• Heterosexual and Homosexual men and women should be free to express their sexual, rather than gender attraction
• Rigid gender stereotypes encourage healthy GNC girls and boys into harmful paths of surgery, sterility, sexual dysfunction, confusion and loneliness.
• Self ID is a dangerous legal concept that will allow women to become vulnerable to a range of trans-identifying males.
• Sports have to remain sex segregated for fairness. GNC children should be free to play in the team of their sex to encourage gender expression diversity. There is nothing wrong with a footballer in a skirt.
• Gender issues are not “trans” issues, they are human issues.
• The promotion of “gender” as an innate soul is harmful.
Cheers
Edie