For all the righteous fury over predators in dressing rooms and male losers dominating female sports, I can think of few things more grotesque than fetishistic men getting their jollies off by crashing groups of women mourning the loss of babies during labour and pregnancy. Yet, this is just what is happening: men in dresses insisting on being allowed to join discussion and support groups for women who’ve miscarried and stillborn.
Not saying anything. Not offering any support. Just sitting like a particularly creepy turd bobbing in the punchbowl, presumably storing away fapping material for their gross autogynephilic fantasies.
And the HR Karens are enabling this sick fetishism.
A parliamentary committee examining the impact of stillbirth on mothers has prefaced its evidence by acknowledging that men who have transitioned or are transitioning to become women should also be part of the conversation around the loss of babies during labour and pregnancy.
Despite the medical impossibility of former men ever becoming pregnant or enduring the hardship of miscarriage, one of South Australia’s most senior health bureaucrats opened her evidence to an SA parliamentary committee by reassuring that her use of the terms “women” and “woman” was not intended to be exclusionary in the context of stillbirth.
While it’s ugly sexism to deny that men cannot possibly endure the hardship of miscarriage – does this idiot journalist really think fathers feel nothing when their partners miscarry? – the fact is that this committee was formed expressly after lobbying from groups representing affected and grieving mothers.
But SA Women’s and Children’s Health Network chief executive Rebecca Graham used her opening statement to the committee last week to reassure intersex and transgender women that they should also feature in discussion around stillbirth.
“In our discussion today, the terms ‘woman’ and ‘women’ will be used, and this is in line with the current research and evidence,” Ms Graham said.
She said, before throwing evidence, not to say sanity, to the winds.
“It is intended to include those with diverse sexualities as well – intersex women and transgender women too.
“SA Health seeks to acknowledge inclusivity and individual family and community preference and identity in what we are describing.”
It’s amazing that she managed to refrain from acknowledging ‘elders past, present and emerging’ while she was at it.
HR Karen and her boss immediately tried to backtrack.
Ms Graham sought to clarify her remarks when contacted by the Australian. “It is important to acknowledge that anyone can be impacted by the loss of a child through stillbirth,” she said in a statement.
“My definitional explanation of the inclusive language used did not intend to imply that a transgender woman could give birth, simply that the perspectives of everyone impacted are considered” […]
But other state MPs and groups advocating for mothers affected by miscarriage questioned the fact that trans issues were raised at all in the context of the hearing […]
Liberal senator Alex Antic went further saying Ms Graham’s comments to the committee reflected a broader national problem surrounding the definition of men and women.
“The Labor government created confusion in 2013 when the Sex Discrimination Act was amended to remove the statutory definitions of “man” and “woman”,” Senator Antic told the Australian.
Something else we can thank Julia Gillard for, along with the debt monster that is the NDIS.
The gods spare us from socialists desperate to have a ‘legacy’.
