Rita Panahi: Radical trans activists trying to bully women into submission

Radical trans activists are using their disproportionate power to attack women who take a stand for female spaces, sports and even gendered terms, such as “mother” and “women”.

There was a brief moment of clarity and common sense during Sunday’s chaotic leaders’ debate.

Neither Scott Morrison nor Anthony Albanese hesitated when asked a question that only last month stumped Health Department head Professor Brendan Murphy, and a host of other highly paid bureaucrats, all of them too scared to answer “what is a woman” for fear of offending the activist class.

It seems the ridicule of this woke madness had an impact with the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader refusing to play PC games and readily giving the dictionary definition of woman; “adult female human”. Of course it’ll only be a matter of time before sufficient pressure is applied by trans activists to change the dictionary definition.

Trans activists are disproportionately powerful, wielding enormous influence in the media, academia and across public and private institutions. That power has been used to attack women who take a stand for female spaces, sports and even gendered terms such as “mother” and “women”.

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese did not hesitate when asked for the definition of woman.

The war on womanhood includes an assault on language. In the name of inclusivity we are supposed to mangle the English language by using “they/them” pronouns for individuals and terms such as “chestfeeding” and “birthing person”.

Radical gender theory and activism continues to infiltrate women’s organisations, even the Australian Breastfeeding Association hasn’t been immune. A small band of activists within the ABA have lodged multiple complaints against seven volunteers and counsellors for excessive use of words such as “mother” or “breastfeeding”.

What started with the use of inclusive language escalated to the point where counsellors have been accused of discrimination for not supporting all parents, including men, who want to breastfeed.

In March I spoke to one of the women driven out of the ABA after 15 years of service as a breastfeeding counsellor. Jasmine Sussex was accused of hate speech for saying outrageous things such as “only women breastfeed”.

Jasmine Sussex was accused of hate speech for saying outrageous things like “only women breastfeed”.

“It’s such a sad story that an organisation that was set up by mothers to help mothers has been torn apart by identity politics,” she said.

This week Ms Sussex spoke out against the insanity of investigating volunteer counsellors for offences such as the overuse of the “taboo word mother”. While the ABA’s new language policy does not eradicate the use of gendered language, it encourages words such as chestfeeding.

“There’s a small group of activists within the organisation who are very triggered by the word mother,” Ms Sussex said on The Rita Panahi Show on Monday.

“It’s been pretty heartbreaking to watch the breastfeeding association really torture itself to try and appease this tiny minority of counsellors”.

Trans activists have been hugely successful in pushing a fringe ideology and characterising any resistance as hateful and harmful. It is more important than ever not to cede linguistic territory to these radical activists, nor allow them to bully women into submission.