The UK Supreme Court’s ruling, which unambiguously states that ‘sex’ and ‘woman’ refer to biology in the Equalities Act and not gender identity, marks a pivotal moment in the fight against transgender irrationalism. This judgement is the latest in an ever-increasing number of legal decisions and medical reviews around the world that are unravelling the tangled web of transgender ideology. To be clear, the judgement is unequivocally positive, and the ripple effects of this decision will impact legislation globally, including in Australia. The role of gender-critical feminists in the fight against this bizarre ideology should be applauded.

Moreover, transgenderism’s legal claims have been completely dismantled, and not, unfortunately, before time. We have witnessed ten years of the most irrational, badly behaved activist spectacle in modern history playing out in the public square. Logic, common sense, reason, and, most importantly, science have been ‘queered’ by a coterie of fanatics who were not satisfied with society’s newfound acceptance of trans identities. Transgender activists routinely employed every underhanded method, including violence, a refusal to debate, the rejection of people’s right to free speech, online mobbing, the weaponisation of mental health, and, most damningly, the cancellation of people’s careers to force others to affirm the activists’ illogical claims, which the evidence of people’s own eyes easily disproves. It is one of the disgraces of modern liberal democracies that so many individuals, and the organisations they led, were captured by this hare-brained philosophy.

However, while gender-critical feminists are heroes and should be commended for their efforts in clarifying the UK Equalities Act regarding how sex is determined and for their principled stand against an anti-human ideology, they should not be permitted to rewrite history and attribute the success of this campaign solely to their activism. Many individuals have engaged in the fight against this pernicious philosophy. Men such as Matt Walsh, whose documentary film What is a Woman? provided the sex-realist side with its most powerful slogan, and Kellie-Jay Keen, aka Posie Parker, its most pithy message – ‘Adult Human Female’. Additionally, there are others, anonymous to the public, myself included, who have had their lives destroyed for taking a principled stand against a worldview that undermines reason. As you can see, not everyone involved in this fight is a feminist, and not all feminist claims regarding the influence of transgenderism are valid.

The feminist claim, for example, that heterosexual men watching transgender porn – if this even occurs – is a major cause of men identifying as women is absurd. Heterosexual men, as should be obvious, are sexually attracted to biological women, not to men identifying as women. This argument is as nonsensical as the assertion that lesbians should have no issue having sex with biological men who claim to be lesbians, a notion that lesbians have rightly ridiculed, because lesbians, by definition, are attracted to female bodies. The same logic applies to heterosexual men. You could strap a heterosexual man to a chair and force him to watch transgender porn, and he would still prefer biological women and would still not want to be a woman. This serves as a perfect example of feminists applying the same argument in different contexts and, due to ideology, arriving at two radically different conclusions that benefit feminists. To be clear, neither lesbians nor heterosexual men like ‘girl dick’ and never will.

How do I fit into this idiosyncratic coalition? To put it plainly, I have written articles about transgender ideology and its harmful effects on reason, ethics, and free speech. More importantly, I have been a victim of this ideology. I dislike the modern obsession with victimhood, but it is the only accurate description of what has happened to me and my current situation. In short, I was forced to resign from a job where I had worked for fifteen years in a library in Western Australia because I refused to complete Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training, which ideologues use to embed transgender ideology in organisations. At the same time, I was accused – by a pure coincidence – of bullying and harassing a new staff member, who just happened to have worked for twelve years in two drag shows.

In my former workplace, the entire council, from the CEO down, is fanatical about trans ideology. When I informed my immediate boss that I wouldn’t participate in the DEI training, she left her office, walked directly to the only transgender person in the library service – a trans man – and said, ‘He won’t do the training.’ On another occasion, after the head librarian overheard me discussing the merits of a book deemed unacceptable from his LGBTQ+ perspective, he told me, ‘It’s been noted’ and marched off. Staff meet like spies in East Berlin, terrified that someone will hear them say anything not blindly supportive of the official ideology. ‘You Are Proudly Welcome Here’ posters adorn the work area. Staff are encouraged to wear rainbow lanyards and pride and ‘Ally’ badges. Within the library service, a minority of staff have done everything possible to normalise transgenderism, including cancelling reservations for books critical of trans ideology, removing books from the library, hiding gender-critical books, and attempting to cancel the annual Harry Potter night. Almost everyone encouraged by management to study librarianship or become a library technician in recent years identifies as a lesbian, non-binary, gay, trans, an ally, pansexual, or bisexual. Each of these identities, from a freedom of conscience perspective, is completely acceptable, but politics, philosophy, sexuality, or religion should not influence how government institutions hire or treat their employees. I’m fighting back, though. My case is before the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Free Speech Union of Australia is helping me.

I am currently unemployed. My last job working in another council as a library courier ended under peculiar circumstances. Did my employer, to speculate, discover that I am a terrible ‘transphobe’? I will never know. I am also down tens of thousands of dollars in lost earnings, and I don’t know if I will work again. Centrelink rejected my application for a JobSeeker payment due to bureaucratic ineptitude, so I am living on my savings. The sooner this ideology becomes an unfortunate footnote in history, the better for everyone, especially for those of us whose lives have been destroyed by morally smug, mal-educated, unethical fanatics.