Tag: transgenderism
Tickle v Giggle: If it’s ‘unimpeachable’ that biological sex can change,...
The case has a humorous name but serious implications. The Federal Court’s decision in Tickle v Giggle, that Roxanne Tickle is correctly described as a woman, has far-reaching consequences for all women-only spaces, writes Monica Doumit.
With respect to the court, puberty blockers have come a long...
A Victorian Supreme Court judge recently said that decisions around giving a 12-year-old puberty blockers is equivalent to making a decision about whether chemotherapy should be given to a patient with cancer. The comparison was both wrong and alarming, writes Monica Doumit.
Monica Doumit: False narratives hide the activists’ agendas
Imagine you’re the principal of a Catholic primary school and you hire a young, male teacher named Jack for one of the infant classes. Jack performs well and passes his probation. You’re looking forward to working with him full-time.
Kevin Donnelly: Liberal Arts will outlast the academy’s decay
While published in 1995, Christopher Lasch in The Revolt of the Elites makes a number of prescient points about what is now known as cancel-culture. Years before neo-Marxist-inspired critical theory become the new orthodoxy Lasch warned about how minority groups were challenging Western societies. Lasch writes in relation to American colleges and universities: “Having discredited […]
