A woman with bright purple hair came in to my work today. She would have blended with the TQIA community but I still complimented her on her choice of hair colour and pointed out the tone was one of the suffragette colours. She told me she has been teaching her daughter about the Suffragettes and other feminist women and then asked me if I knew women’s rights were under threat and had I heard of a case called Tickle versus Giggle? I said I had, that I found the fact Tickle won despicable, and she launched in to a 10 minute rant about self ID and her disgust with Labor and the Greens, who she used to vote for. I didn’t say anything, just let her vent. Then I invited her to our rally on the 4th of July.
I work in a tiny satellite town an hour from Melbourne.
If gender ideology has women riled up out here then TERFs have won in the court of public opinion. If Labor wants any chance of staying in government, or if the Libs or One Nation want a crack, they better give women our rights back!