Bridie Nolan, barrister for @salltweets in landmark women’s rights case #TicklevGiggle, dismantles applicant’s case that Roxy Tickle is ‘psychologically’ a woman 💥💥💥 “What is a woman, if thinking one is a woman, means one is a woman? A woman is not a thought. The applicant’s lawyer’s summation of a woman is not only deeply offensive but absurd – how one dresses, where one shops, etc. Both sexes can shop on the opposite side of the aisle. The more troubling and insidious aspect of the applicant’s evidence, is that there is this entitlement to access spaces where the female sex go, proving incontrovertibly that the applicant does not have the psychology of a woman. Our society recognises the importance of single-sex spaces in certain circumstances – female-only toilets, dormitories etc – to keep women safe from male violence. These are the very places the applicant says he goes. When a woman who is biologically born and always so - whether she has had her reproductive organs removed or not, whether she thinks she’s a male or not - walks through a dark park in the middle of the night, she does not stop to think: I wonder what side of Kmart this person shops from, have they had their facial hair removed, have they told people in the workplace whether they’re a woman or not? She doesn’t do that. She doesn’t stop for one second to do that. She senses instinctively what she perceives to be a threat. She tightens her fingers around her keys. She speeds up. If a man truly had the psychology of a woman, he would know that and not enter female-only spaces. This proves the applicant lacks the psychology of a woman. That the applicant is not a woman.” **Transcribed to the best of my ability.** #AusPol #IStandWithSallGrover 💗
@RachaelWongAus @salltweets OWNS him with the Kmart comment slipped in there. Epic! 🤩💖💪
@RachaelWongAus @salltweets Every decent man knows not to enter female spaces. Not only does Mr. Tickle not have the psychology of a woman, he does not even have the psychology of a decent man.
@RachaelWongAus @salltweets You can only be born a woman. Otherwise, you're a man (except in extremely rare cases.)
@RachaelWongAus @salltweets Very succinct and to the point. ““What is a woman, if thinking one is a woman, means one is a woman? A woman is not a thought.” If I thought I was a cat - does that make me a cat?
@RachaelWongAus @salltweets No woman can know what it is to be a man, and no man can know what it is to be a woman. We have only our own assumptions on what it could be like. But we can't "know". They are therefore merely identifying with their own stereotype of the opposite sex. Not reality.
Tickle’s counsel doesn’t have a word for adult human females as a grouping. They would remove women from law completely. They have taken the word that once meant women, redefined it to include men, and left a giant black hole where a word once stood leaving the court with no word to refer to the group that is half the human race.
@RachaelWongAus @salltweets These bloody brilliant Australian women! 👏👏👏
@RachaelWongAus @salltweets Okay, so can someone please Photoshop her wearing a superhero cape and holding a sword like a badass? Just to make the photo more accurate.