Don’t Dare Laugh at the Clown Show

Once upon a time, poofs could laugh at themselves and we could laugh along with them. From John Inman to Kenny Everett to Julian Clary, generations of flaming queens have reminded us all not to take either them or ourselves to seriously.

Not any more.

Like all authoritarian regimes, the Rainbow dictatorship cannot, will not, tolerate laughter. Especially at its own expense. Laugh at power and you undermine its self-assumed prestige. “Every joke is a tiny revolution,” as George Orwell said. Because “whatever destroys dignity, and brings down the mighty from their seats, preferably with a bump, is funny”.

Conversely, whatever is funny, threatens the mighty. Hence the purse-mouthed censoriousness of the Rainbow regime. And few are more censorious than the trannies.

It’s official: we’re not allowed to laugh at trannies. Never mind that they’re inherently hilarious: all too often, unattractive men, painting themselves into even less attractive, clownish caricatures of ‘women’. What’s not to laugh at?

According to a recent court decision in Australia, everything.

Especially not some bloke who looks like a bulldog in a wig.

Transgender woman [Man] Roxanne Tickle wants Giggle app founder Sall Grover to pay her [him] at least $40,000 because the female-only platform creator laughed in court when shown a caricature of Tickle during cross-examination in a sex discrimination hearing last year.

Well, who wouldn’t.

What’s not funny is the grotesque lawfare this man is dragging real women through, just to validate his autogynephilic fetish.

Grover and her Giggle platform are appealing a Federal Court ruling last year that they indirectly discriminated against Ms [Mr] Tickle when they rejected her from the app because she [he] did not appear to be female.

That’s because he isn’t.

Tickle is also appealing parts of that decision, arguing judge Robert Bromwich should have found she [he] was the victim of direct, rather than indirect, discrimination.

Justice Bromwich awarded Tickle $10,000, in part because Grover had briefly laughed in court at “an offensive caricature” of Tickle that she had been asked to look at during cross-­examination, a moment the judge found “offensive and belittling”.

“Her explanation, that it was funny in the context of the courtroom, was obviously disingenuous,” he said.

No, it was true. Because it was funny – in any context.

In a cross-appeal submission obtained by the Australian, ­Tickle claims the $10,000 general damages award was “manifestly inadequate” and she [he] should be awarded at least $30,000 in general damages, and at least $10,000 in aggravated damages.

For what? Trying to muscle in on women’s spaces? Which is totally not something a predatory perv would do, of course.

In any event, the submission argues, Grover and Giggle clearly had a policy of excluding both men and transgender women [men] from the Giggle App.

Because they’re one and the same thing: men. And the Giggle app was exclusively for women.

But this is Australian law, 2025, where biological fact is irrelevant.

Grover and Giggle’s defence to the discrimination claim (that they did not know Tickle was a transgender woman [man] and blocked her access to the app simply because they perceived her [him] to be a man) was “inextricable from their nihilistic and legally false distinction that a person who had the designated male sex at birth could never be a woman”.

Because he wasn’t “designated” male, he is male. And a male can never be a woman.

Play dress-ups, mutilate yourself and cry and whine and bully all you like, that simple, undeniable biological fact will never change.

And the rest of us have every right to laugh at such ridiculous beliefs.