Rita Panahi: tran’s lobby’s power is ‘disproportionate’

The power of the increasingly intolerant and extremist trans lobby is evident in the way politicians, bureaucrats and celebrities bend to its ideology.

The disproportionate power of the trans lobby is evident in the manner in which politicians, bureaucrats and celebrities bend a knee to this increasingly intolerant, extremist mob.

In recent days we’ve seen prominent individuals from a former Australian prime minister to an international rock legend kowtow to an ideology that demands complete submission.

Australia’s first and only female prime minister beclowned herself, during a ‘women’s advancement’ event on Friday, when posed with the simple question; what is a woman? In a waffling and at times incoherent response that dragged on for close to four minutes and more than 600 words, Gillard failed to answer the question but did make it clear where she stood; and it’s not with women fighting to preserve women’s only spaces and sports from male bodies.

Gillard does not stand with the likes of JK Rowling, Germaine Greer or Riley Gaines, she stands with the trans activists.

She spoke of being inclusive of people who want “to be recognised as the gender their mind and soul have always told them that they are” and emphasised that most women “won’t end up playing elite sport (or) … end up in prison”. Put to one side the absurdity of an atheist talking about what people’s souls tell them and think of the callous manner she is disregarding the interests of vulnerable women in prison and girls and women in elite sport. Such is the fear of the trans lobby, and their attack dogs in the media, that Gillard went from feminist heroine to pariah in the eyes of many women who admired her.

Meanwhile, guitar legend Carlos Santana caused a Leftist media meltdown when footage emerged of him saying “a woman is a woman and a man is a man — that’s it”. On the weekend he backtracked and issued a grovelling apology to the LGBTQIA+ community for his “insensitive comments”.

“What I said hurt people … I sincerely apologise to the transgender community and everyone I offended,” he wrote.

Much of the power of the trans lobby comes from the manner in which they have captured the bulk of the media and that capture is arguably worse in Australia and NZ than anywhere else in the world.

That was clear with the hopelessly biased and inaccurate local coverage of the Let Women Speak events headlines by Kellie-Jay Keen who has served Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto along with his deputy David Southwick, upper house leader Georgie Crozier and shadow education minister Matt Bach with defamation concern notices.

It’s not just former Labor PMs who have humiliated themselves in service to this fringe lobby.

Rita Panahi is a Herald Sun columnist