When Australian Marriage Equality wound up its winning “love is love” campaign for gay marriage in 2017, it didn’t go away.
It morphed into “Equality Australia” and started mounting legal actions against Christian schools which dared to continue to hire staff who supported the traditional definition of marriage and the biological definition of gender.
Today with the help of a bestiality-affirming consultant, Teddy Cook (a woman who identifies as a man), it is going after women who are trying to protect girls’ and women’s spaces from the encroachment of “women” with penises.
You can’t make this stuff up. But it is the place to which our hapless weak and woke Liberal and Labor politicians have brought us.
Today’s front-page news in The Australian is that Equality Australia has intervened in the now infamous Tickle v Giggle court case is evidence we have hit peak stupid.
For those who have not been following along, Giggle is the female-only smart phone application Gold Coast woman Sall Grover set up six years ago to provide a safe place for women to interact.
A biological male who goes by the name Roxanne Tickle was rightly refused entry to the app by Grover.
Tickle sued and Grover lost. Federal Court judge Justice Bromwich ruled that sex was interchangeable – ie a man can be a woman.
The supposed legal basis to this is an amendment our first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard made to the Sex Discrimination Act.
In 2013, with the support of the asleep-at-the-wheel Coalition, the words “gender identity” were added as a protected attribute and waved through the Parliament.
There was no debate, no opposition.
Even when this was soon discovered to be a terrible mistake, no politician took up the cause of righting the wrong to protect girls and women.
The LGBTQ+ political activists who proposed the 2013 amendment to then Attorney General Mark Dreyfus knew exactly what they were doing and that is why Equality Australia has intervened in Tickle v Giggle.
They are fighting tooth and nail to preserve the law our first female PM gave us – a law that says a woman can have a penis and must therefore be allowed in any girl’s or woman’s space or sports.
Equality Australia’s CEO, Anna Brown, went from being one of the Marriage Equality leaders telling the Australian public during the 2017 plebiscite there were “no consequences” to changing the definition of marriage to now enforcing those same supposedly non-existent consequences.
Forgive me if I sound like a bear with a sore head, because that’s exactly how I feel.
As a spokesperson and director of the Coalition for Marriage, the official No campaign in the plebiscite, I was carrying our team’s argument that redefining marriage would lead to a loss of freedoms and to the enforcement of radical LGBTQ+ gender fluid ideology upon the population.
In numerous media interviews and debates, AME spokespeople denied this and said we were introducing “red herrings” and “furphies” into a debate which they said was entirely about the love of two people, nothing else.
But further proof AME lied about the consequences of their 2017 political campaign is today’s news that they, now re-badged as Equality Australia, are intervening on the side of Tickle in the Grover matter.
They know that the law change they achieved in 2017 builds upon the 2013 amendment.
If Grover wins her appeal against Bromwich’s farcical “sex is changeable” ruling, the whole gender fluid project at the heart of LGBTQ+ political activism falls apart.
By holding her ground, Grover has pulled a thread which unravels their deconstruction of biological and sociological understandings of gender.
It doesn’t, and nor should it, unravel protections against discrimination against same-sex people or same-sex couples.
However, it shines a light on the injustices the 2013 and 2017 legislative changes have wrought on girls, women and children.
These injustices were cleverly masked by feelgood slogans about “love” and “equality”.
But if the Australian public had been allowed to know that the consequences would be immediate attacks on Christian schools for employing staff who believed in marriage and the biological truth of gender, litigation against people like Sall Grover for simply seeking to preserve women’s only spaces and an experimental medical industry chemically castrating and surgically mutilating gender confused children, there might have been a different outcome to the 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite.
Anna Brown and AME didn’t rest on their laurels after their win.
They re-badged and kept going. They wanted to drive home and cement their advantage.
They had some setbacks. Teddy Cook lost her legal action against Canadian father and girls’ and women’s rights advocate, Chris Elston (aka Billboard Chris).
The E-Safety Commissioner, Julie Inam Grant, tried to have Elston’s post exposing Cook for affirming bestiality taken down.
But LGBTQ+ legal activism is a mixed bag. Last week activist-driven court action succeeded in having the cancellation of Dr Jereth Kok’s medical registration upheld by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Dr Kok can no longer practice as a medical doctor, not for abusing any patient, but because of private social media posts which countered the LGBTQ+ view of the world.
Christian schools remain under threat after the Albanese Government, with the help of “moderate” Liberals, almost succeeded last year in bringing legislation which would have stripped them of the right to employ staff who share the parent community’s view on marriage and the gender binary.
The issue is at a stalemate but an emboldened Albanese government with a whopping majority and a woke and weak Liberal leadership under Sussan Ley continues to threaten freedom of religion.
In 2017 the Coalition for Marriage warned of the consequences. Australian Marriage Equality denied there would be any. They lied.
A re-think of the consequences of LGBTQ+ law reform is urgently needed in the light of what is now becoming obvious to more people.
Equality Australia’s intervention in the Tickle v Giggle case attacks the lesbians supporting Grover because lesbians argue only women can be lesbians. Who would have thunk it?
The LGBTQ+ snake is swallowing its tail.
Freedoms have been lost, children have been harmed, commonsense trashed.
We must change course. That will require political courage but there is none in the leadership of the major parties.
It’s why Family First works every day to build a political movement for family, freedom, faith and life.
Lyle Shelton is National Director of the Family First Party. He was a director and spokesperson for the Coalition for Marriage during the 2017 Australian Marriage Law plebiscite.