LGBTQ+ @beehaw.org Ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 yr. ago

Australia's first female PM has perfect response to tired anti-trans question

www.thepinknews.com Australia's first female PM has perfect response to tired anti-trans question

Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has called for "love, inclusion and respect" after being asked to define what a woman is.

Australia @aussie.zone Ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 yr. ago

www.thepinknews.com /2023/08/28/australia-julia-gillard-trans-question/

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gender-critical activist

Well, that is taking trivializing transphobia to a whole new level. What's next, calling fascists "democracy-critical activists"?
- We already call them alt-right
  
  Fair enough. I always perceived the term 'alt right' more of an umbrella term for 'gender-critical', 'democracy-critical' and 'all-that's-not-hardcore-conservative-chistian-critical' 'activists' though.
- Yeah. Don't call them gender critical. They're not critical of gender, they're critical of your gender. Imo you can believe that behaviors and personalities shouldn't be linked to someone's genitals while still being supportive of trans and non-binary folks. That's not what these people are doing, however. If anything, they're reinforcing it.
  
  The "Gender Critical" crowd has long been a large crowd of trolls who just love sealioning their way into communities and gaslighting people into doubting themselves.
  
  I speak from experience; I'm a former moderator of /r/Genderqueer.
  
  Best thing to do is to ignore their questions and deplatform them. They're no better than your average transphobe who hides their phobia behind "just asking questions" and "peaceful debate"
- There's an argument in favor of using the expression they chose. It taints it. They can say TERF is a slur, but, if the discussion about how horrible and wrong they are uses gender critical, they lose one deflection and anyone interested in the subject will see negative results in their research.
  
  TERF is literally the term they chose. They don't get to change it to something else now that people are on to their bullshit.
  
  I disagree. TERF is not a slur, nor is cis. If someone chooses to be offended by a term that is not offensive in any way, it's not my fault. 'Gender-critical activist' is nothing but trivialization, and if we start to use it, it gets validated.
She gives a remarkably classy and well articulated answer that shows she has actually thought about the issue. And the AU news headlines it as her "floundering".

Propaganda. That's what that original headline from the AU article linked in the PinkNews article is.
Don’t bother reading the rest of this article, the daily mail is a trash rag owned by murdoch. But here’s the only actual video I could find: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12451613/julia-gillard-woman.html#v-5451421088084411777
- Small correction, the Daily Mail is indeed a trash rag but it isn't owned by Murdoch

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