Nothing speaks to the integrity and robustness of your ideology quite like summarily silencing anyone who dares beg to differ, which, it should surprise no one, is the prime operating principle of the ‘trans’ lobby. There’s nothing these cocks-in-frocks like more than beating real women into silence. Whether by literally trying to lynch Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, or metaphorically by conniving to have any woman who even tries to discuss their creepy ideology summarily sacked and un-personed.
No platform is too small for these menacing cross-dressers to bully and no disagreement too mild for them to censor.
The latest casualty in this war against reality is Iris Richter, a now-former stalwart at Tasmanian community radio station Huon FM, whose primary crime was allowing a woman to speak in a space previously reserved for discussion. After five years of service, Richter found herself summarily booted, having committed the unforgivable sin of interviewing Isla MacGregor from Women Speak Tasmania regarding the crumbling protections of the Sex Discrimination Act.
Richter’s experience highlights the cowardly, backroom nature of this moral inquisition.
“About a month after I interviewed Isla MacGregor on 27 May, I received an email informing me that I was dismissed from Huon FM and that I was not allowed to enter the radio station or contact anyone except for the grievance officer.”
What on earth is a “grievance officer”? Nothing speaks to the inquisitorial fragility of the modern mind than that such a position should even exist.
One can almost smell the stale air of the HR meeting room, ripe with the fug of the self-righteous indignation of committee members who likely haven’t had a coherent thought since the mid-’90s. Richter, having served on the committee herself for four years – three of which she spent as the grievance officer, no less – knew full well that this was a departure from any semblance of due process.
In my four years serving on the Huon FM committee, three of which I was the grievance officer, at no time was any grievance dealt with in this unfair and perfunctory manner. All grievances involved consultation and warnings first, not immediate expulsion in absentia.
It is the hallmark of the fragile. When you cannot win the argument, you purge. Huon FM conducted a phantom investigation while Richter was overseas, concluding that her interview, a simple conversation about biology and law, posed a ‘risk of community and reputational damage’. How fragile must the reputation of a community radio station – or, more likely, the egos of men in dresses whose dearest predatory wish appears to be being allowed to slither into the change room and whip their dongs out in front of terrified little girls – be if it shatters upon the mention of biological reality?
The rot goes deeper than mere sacking. There is the deliberate scrubbing of the record, the modern equivalent of burning books, though significantly less dignified.
Apparently, new policies had been introduced shortly before the interview, banning the previously common practice of sharing podcasts with interviewees and making them accessible to the public on our webpage. I was not made aware of these changes. Several other presenters have left the station since all our interviews are no longer kept on public record via the station website, but instead get flushed down the memory hole.
It’s a purge in the most literal sense. Anything that challenges the current state-sanctioned doctrine is to be vanished, hidden and forgotten. Membership at the station has withered, as volunteers realise their free time is better spent elsewhere than in a gulag of excessive, restrictive policy. Women Speak Tasmania, naturally, was also targeted. The board demanded that the group remove any trace of the conversation, effectively ordering them to cease existence in the digital ether.
Dr Elizabeth Caballero, President of Women Speak Tasmania, rightly identifies that this is not a one-off instance of localised insanity, but part of a sweeping, state-wide, suppression of truth.
Huon FM’s dismissal of Iris Richter and its censorship of Women Speak Tasmania’s interview are not isolated incidents in Tasmania’s media landscape. Media censorship has been ongoing since the passing of sex self-identification laws in Tasmania. Tasmanian media outlets continue to censor Women Speak Tasmania’s views on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill, despite numerous media releases and attempts by our organisation to contribute to public debate.
This is the end state of the progressivist project. Once you allow the state to dictate the boundaries of truth, declaring that a man in a dress is a woman or that conversation is violence, you create a society where disagreement is a crime. They seek to monopolise the conversation with a clenched male fist, banning any voice that might remind the public of the immutable laws of nature.
The silence enforced at Huon FM is a signal to all of us. The suppression of Iris Richter is a warning flare. Women Speak Tasmania continues to call for a parliamentary inquiry, as if any among the political class has the spine to stand against the tide. They cling to their slogans, while the reality they refuse to acknowledge continues to crumble around them, one censored radio interview at a time.
The truth remains, regardless of how many podcasts they flush down the memory hole. They can silence the woman, but they cannot silence the facts.
