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(a painting of a rural English cottage at the edge of a field in the foreground, behind a hedge with trees in the background and a woman and child standing at the gate)
In 1984, Australia adopted the Sex Discrimination Act.
Although this is interpreted as banning discrimination against women, and that was the main aim of the Act, it is worded carefully to ban any form of discrimination based on sex - and that definition has been updated (particularly in 2013) to included the better, more correct understandings of gender and gender identity.
Most legal cases have been to seek better outcomes for women, including transwomen, but there have also, if I recall correctly, cases where men in professions dominated by women sought fairer conditions for them.
Overall, unfortunately, the patriarchy (especially those men who deny they are the puppets of a patriarchy that they so clearly are) has been successful at limiting the gains by women - and much of that, IMO, is because the norms and legal mores around responses to such legal action have shied away from acknowledging the reality that, no matter how firmly bigots try to delude themselves and others, they cannot keep a hate secret in their heart and hide it by minor adaptations to their outer behaviour: their hate leaks out.
Hopefully the recently introduced requirement around positive duty will help to remedy that, but there is an important spiritual effect that goes with the creation of the SDA, and that is:
the call for women to overcome the patriarchy taught and induced suppression of strength and capability into a subservient, or “test men against patriarchal notions of fitness despite modern life”, puerile state of being.
As Jane Elliott, who developed the brown eyes/blue eyes exercise, wrote:
“Females, get over ‘cute’. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over ‘cute’. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in their ‘little girl’ state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious.”
There are still quite serious blocks against equal participation by women, all trans people and nonbinary people in society, but surrendering in advance by accepting these crippling misconceptions into our being and our very sense of self is NOT helping us to overcome those blocks.
It is also worth having a look at my latest SubStack post:
“The FIVE stress responses” https://musingsofgnwmythr.substack.com/p/the-five-stress-responses “And why one of these is not noticed ... ”
Kayleen "Gnwmythr", Pagan, fmr Priestess (ret'd)
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).
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