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This morning, Aus Fed Court heard initial proceedings in Tickle v Giggle, after a man who says he’s a woman brought a human rights claim against
@salltweets
for not allowing him to use her female-only app. Thank you Sall for standing up for the sex-based rights of all women! 💗
Courageous Victorian Liberal MP
@MoiraDeeming
champions women & children in phenomenal maiden speech 🔥🔥🔥
1/5 "The final straw...was discovering that school policies & curriculums had been radically altered to remove almost every child safeguarding standard that we had had."
BREAKING: Tickle v Giggle is going to the Australian Federal Court.
Thank you
@salltweets
for standing your ground & fighting for the sex-based rights of all women & girls in Australia.
Female-only spaces, are for females only 🙋🏼♀️
#IStandWithSallGrover
A fantastic interview with gender critical feminist Professor Kathleen Stock
@Docstockk
, who was hounded out of her job at the University of Sussex in 2021 for criticising gender ideology.
The full interview is a must watch:
👏 After intense public backlash,
@ripcurl
has removed its posts promoting a male surfer in its women’s campaign.
🙌 Well done everyone who called for
#BoycottRipCurl
💪 This is what happens when we raise our voices together against this mockery of women.
#SaveWomensSports
.
@ripcurl
trying out the Budweiser business model.
Women aren't interested in wearing brands that betray women and girls and undermine their right to fair sport.
#BoycottRipCurl
#SaveWomensSports
“
@salltweets
could have let this be someone else's problem. Instead, she stood up & took a bullet for the future of every woman/girl” -
@stephbastiaan
Tomorrow, women’s rights go on trial in the landmark case Tickle v Giggle.
#AusPol
#IStandWithSallGrover
Hear, hear! 👏👏👏
UK Professor
@JoPhoenix1
has won her case against the Open University, for harassment & discrimination on the basis of her gender critical beliefs.
Congratulations Jo & thank you for courageously standing up for women & biological reality! 💜
#JoPhoenixWins
We strongly condemn the disgraceful move to expel
@MoiraDeemingMP
for her part in Melbourne’s
#LetWomenSpeak
rally which was invaded by Nazis. The Aus Jewish Assoc. has defended the rally organisers, but
@LiberalVictoria
Leader
@JohnPesutto
prefers to appease TRAs & silence women
IT'S TIME TO RAISE YOUR VOICE against the intimidation & silencing of women who defend their sex-based needs & rights.
SIGN THE PETITION demanding the reinstatement of
@MoiraDeemingMP
to the Victorian Liberal Party:
#IStandWithMoiraDeeming
#LetWomenSpeak
"This decision was made by less than 20 people from Spring St. I don't believe it reflects the will of the membership. So I'm going to carry on & do my very best to be the best MP I can be" -
@MoiraDeemingMP
#IStandWithMoiraDeeming
#LetWomenSpeak
Full 🎥
Thank you
@MoiraDeeming
for highlighting the fact that Australia has its own ‘male rapist in a women’s prison’ situation paralleling that of Scotland’s. The difference is, he’s still in there and the Victorian Labor Government is doing nothing about it
#NoToSelfID
#AusPol
#VicPol
Insurers are running scared and the media are blowing the lid off the harms of gender ideology to vulnerable children. Is this the beginning of the end?
Tasmania introduced self-ID laws in 2019. This letter to the editor was published in
@ExaminerOnline
today. This is the logical conclusion of allowing anyone to change their legal sex. Men can get naked with little girls & anyone who says otherwise is punished
#NoToSelfID
#QldPol
"Every part of this has been what feels like an authoritarian nightmare."
@salltweets
, one of our campaign partners against Queensland's self-ID law, absolutely nails it in this interview 👏👏👏
Watch the full interview:
3000 signatures in 30hrs!
Not bad 💁🏻♀️
But we can do better!
Moira has been a tireless advocate for the rights of women & girls, biological reality & common sense -she deserves all the support she can get.
SIGN NOW
#IStandWithMoiraDeeming
#LetWomenSpeak
"We don't have to look overseas for evidence that dangerous men can identify as women & be placed in women's prisons. It's happening, right here..Any reasonable person knows this is indefensible."
Thank you Senator Chandler 👏
✍️
#AusPol
#VicPol
#QldPol
2/5 "I worked with brave women & men from the left...I worked with people of all faiths & none. I worked with betrayed parents & shattered detransitioners. We put everything aside & we worked together, & every single one of us was attacked for shining a light on these issues."
3/5 "Women & girls are suffering in Victoria because this government cannot or will not define what a female is...I call upon this government to immediately reinstate sex-based rights in the law."
5/5 "This govt has made it illegal for parents & clinicians of gender-dysphoric children to seek out any treatments at all no matter how reasonable...I call on this govt to reinstate common sense & compassion & to conduct an open inquiry into gender affirmation practices in Vic."
Former PM John Howard slams Vic Liberal Party’s treatment of
@MoiraDeemingMP
“The behaviour of our colleagues in Victoria was appalling. Why we chose to pick on one of our own, who was really demonstrating what all of us think is self-evidently the case.”
Unjustly suspended Victorian Liberal MP
@MoiraDeemingMP
has given Opposition Leader
@JohnPesutto
an ultimatum to issue a media statement making it clear that he does not believe she is a Nazi or Nazi sympathiser by 2PM TODAY, or face legal action.
4/5 "This government has made it legal to have children inside brothels in Victoria...newborn babies & children up to 18 months of age are allowed on the premises...I call on the government to amend that Act as well so that no child can be taken inside brothels of any kind".
A South Australian judge and various Australian commentators have tried to make out that
@jk_rowling
misunderstood the new preferred pronoun protocol in South Australian courtrooms. Thank you JK for putting it in words that even our top legal minds can understand.
Vilification, violence, intimidation, silencing.
Women have had enough.
SIGN/SHARE the petition demanding the reinstatement of
@MoiraDeemingMP
to the Vic Liberal Party—at over 5000 signatures in just a few days!
✍️
#IStandWithMoiraDeeming
#LetWomenSpeak
The UK
#CassReview
has found there’s no good evidence for medically transitioning kids.
But 🇦🇺 doctors/MPs/media are burying their heads in the sand.
Aus urgently needs an inquiry.
In light of this damning report, there’s no good reason to wait a second longer.
@HJoyceGender
The incredible resignation of Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon following backlash against her harmful self-ID policies shows the power of the people. It’s time to hold the Queensland Government to account!
🚫 Say NO to self-ID in Queensland:
🔥🔥🔥 WATCH
@deves_katherine
on Sky News talking about the UK’s incredible decision to block Scotland’s self-ID law & the parallel bill in QLD.
“We do not consent to men in these spaces, we do not consent to men taking over women's rights."
#NoToSelfID
#WeDoNotConsent
Well done to these amazing women who raised a voice for us all at Vic Parliament today, as they shared about reprisals they’ve faced for speaking out about women’s sex-based rights & the harms of gender ideology to women, children & our entire culture 💜
#LetWomenSpeak
#SpringSt
“She’s doing this to act as a shield for women who can’t afford to take the hit the way that she did. She’s an absolute superhero." -
@HJoyceGender
🔗 “The significance of what
@jk_rowling
has done cannot be understated” writes our CEO
@RachaelWongAus
:
Not only did Hobart City Council vote AGAINST
@LouiseElliot19
's sensible motion to make public facilities safe for ALL, her colleague
@Ryan_Posselt
can be seen huffing & puffing throughout. Why such disdain for the rights & safety of women & girls?
Full🎥
Our Research Fellow
@stephbastiaan
on how
@ausport
's new trans guidelines 'emphasise the inclusion of biological males in women's sport' at the expense of 'fair & competitive sport' for female athletes, calling testosterone 'a false standard'.
Full clip:
The deception required by
@QLDLabor
MPs like 'Minister for Women'
@ShannonFentiman
to pass QLDs
#SelfID
bill today was extraordinary.
It's a dark day for QLD women & girls who have been sold out by their government, but we won't stop fighting for their sex-based rights & safety.
“
@LiberalVictoria
should be standing up for women’s rights. Their silence on male rapists being housed in female prisons has been a disgrace. They are now trying to cancel a woman brave enough to fight for female rights in the public arena” -
@stephbastiaan
In a win for women, the federal government has agreed to reverse “birthing parent” to “mother” on its health form. Well done Sall 👏👏👏 Your little girl is going to grow up in a better world thanks to women like you
@salltweets
A better title would have been ‘
@WorldAthletics
Protects Women’s Sport’. Thank you
@sebcoe
for standing by your statement that “gender cannot trump biology” 👏👏👏 Now for the rest of the sporting world
#SaveWomensSports
“This unwillingness to hear feedback from detransitioners is detrimental & reduces the ability to improve the quality of healthcare received.”
Melbourne detransitioner Mel Jeffries responds to Vic MPs who blocked inquiry into medicalised gender affirmation of minors.
#springst
Our media release on the absurd and unjust referral of Hobart City Councillor
@LouiseElliotM
to the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Stating that ‘transwomen are men’ and other facts is not hate speech.
#LetWomenSpeak
Today is Detrans Awareness Day 🦎
THANK YOU to these brave Aussie detransitioners –& detransitioners from around the world– for courageously speaking out about the harms of social/medical transitioning & how we can better care for those struggling with gender dysphoria.
#AusPol
Discussing her nomination for NSW’s senate vacancy,
@deves_katherine
doesn’t miss a beat in this hostile interview by Sky News Australia host Sharri Markson.
Full interview:
Feeling “unsafe, distressed and traumatised”, female prisoners asked Victorian authorities to remove a violent male sex offender from their prison. Three months later, he’s still there
#NoMenInWomensPrisons
#KeepPrisonsSingleSex
"How did this happen? This is the real question that must be answered, otherwise we will be powerless to prevent the next scandal."
🔗 British MP
@miriam_cates
in
@Daily_Express
on the
#CassReview
and those who failed vulnerable, gender-confused children:
After the release of the landmark
#CassReview
, Dr
@Hilary_Cass
has shamefully faced a barrage of vile abuse & disinformation re her report.
We are indebted to you Dr Cass, for all you have done to safeguard vulnerable children. Thank you 🙏
🔗
@thetimes
:
.
@AusHumanRights
' project ‘mapping threats to trans and gender diverse human rights in Australia’ raises grave concerns regarding the right of women to speak out about the adverse impact of gender ideology on our sex-based rights.
Thank you
@SenatorClaire
for being our voice 💙
"I respectfully write to ask that you vote against the motion to expel me...I am innocent of these charges...& guilt by various degrees of association is not a standard that any one of us can avoid transgressing."
@MoiraDeemingMP
#IStandWithMoiraDeeming
"We have a government that can’t define what a woman is. It’s all very well pouring money into domestic violence services for women when men can access them" 💯
Our Research Fellow
@stephbastiaan
with
@RitaPanahi
on
@SkyNewsAust
on how self-ID renders useless female safe spaces.
Our Research Fellow
@stephbastiaan
talks to
@RitaPanahi
about how the media has been disgracefully misreporting a male paedophile who abused two children in South Australia, as a woman.
#NotOurCrimes
Kiwi men have started this excellent initiative over in NZ in response to the violent silencing of women at the
#LetWomenSpeak
event in Auckland 👏👏👏
What do you reckon Aussie men?
#StandByYourWoman
Despite being suspended from her own party for standing up for women's rights & safety,
@MoiraDeemingMP
used her first Q time in parliament to advocate protections for female prisoners. There's no stopping this woman 🔥🔥🔥
Full 🎥:
#KeepPrisonsSingleSex
"It is time Australian MPs take seriously the comments of
@UNSRVAW
& her calls to protect the rights & safety of women & girls. Aus MPs are not above human rights laws. They are not exempt from protecting the human rights of women & girls."
#LetWomenSpeak
In response to our request to sign the Women's Pledge supporting sex-based rights for women & girls, Sam Campbell told us: "I don't support TERFs".
Thanks for letting us know where you stand Sam.
🔗
#WomensPledgeTas
#politas
Our petition to reinstate
@MoiraDeemingMP
to the Vic Liberal Party, also calls for the reinstatement of
@ReneeHeathMP
to Party Secretary, who was unjustly demoted for her role in Moira's original expulsion minutes.
Find out more & SIGN/SHARE THE PETITION:
Well done
@LouiseElliot19
for this sensible solution to keep toilets & change rooms safe for all, including women & girls.
We hope
@cityofhobarttas
adopts your proposal to provide separate spaces for “people of all sexes & genders”, while maintaining essential single-sex spaces.
Watch
@deves_katherine
discuss the case which could restore women's sex-based rights in Aus.
Sydney women - join us in supporting
@salltweets
at tomorrow's hearing, 28 April 10.15am at the Aus Federal Court!
Full 🎥
More details
🚨 The Legislative Council is debating
@NSWLabor
's conversion bill TONIGHT
An amendment will be moved to omit 'gender identity' from the bill
We want MLCs to hear from as many of you as possible why it's a terrible idea to embed the 'gender affirmation' approach in law
#NSWpol
Some great developments in the UK with the government to consider changing the Equality Act to clarify that ’sex’ means biological sex, so that women-only sports, spaces etc are protected.
1/5 A BIG THANK YOU to
@ang3snowden
at the
@australian
for reporting on our efforts with
@BiologicalReal1
& other women's advocates to remove the male sex offender from a women's prison in Victoria 🙌
We need your help to ensure that, together, we can continue to be a powerful voice in calling out those who try to erase women in the year ahead.
Thank you for giving your best
#EOFY
gift today to champion genuinely pro-woman cultural & policy change!
❤️
WATCH
@salltweets
talk to
@rowandean
on
@SkyNewsAust
about the grave implications of QLD Minister for Women
@ShannonFentiman
’s new bill, which among other things, will allow men to self-identify into female-only activities, spaces & services.
Full video:
'A big part of what led me to feeling gender dysphoria was being sexually abused…I was shown that being a woman is to be objectified & to be in pain. I didn't want that.'
An utterly tragic story & appalling dereliction of duty by health professionals.
MLC
@JohnRuddick2
signed our ‘Women’s Pledge’ during the NSW election, acknowledging women are biological females & committing to protect women-only spaces & sports, as well as the ability to speak out on these issues.
An MP who makes good on his promises. You love to see it! 👏
Today I hosted a parliamentary event with 8 courageous women - many harassed for their views on trans issues.
Robust debate achieves progress. If transpeople were silenced, I would platform them too.
That said, these women are terrific.
@deves_katherine
@KirralieS
@salltweets
.
@MoiraDeemingMP
has issued Victorian Liberal Leader John Pesutto a third Concerns Notice, giving him 7 days to make a public apology to avoid defamation proceedings commencing in the Federal Court.
.
@stephbastiaan
brings us up to speed on the case so far.
Not only does QLD Minister for Women
@ShannonFentiman
not know what a woman is, she has ignored/blocked/called women transphobic, & is sacrificing their rights to laws which allow anyone to change their legal sex & enable men to self-ID into women's spaces