A woman’s standard for
standard-issue women

Peter O’Brien writes:

Some time ago, under questioning by Senator Alex Antic, permanent head of the Department of Health and Aged Care Dr Brendan Murphy was unable to furnish a definition of a woman. That question underlies a myriad of protests by genuine, biologically bona fide women seeking to protect their spaces. 

And now we see this question at the heart of a Federal Court case involving developer and owner of the Giggle website, Sall Grover, and a male with surgically snipped and rearranged genitals who goes by the name of Roxanne Tickle (left), purports to be a woman and is demanding six-figure damages for the alleged harm of being excluded from the site and forum. Who’d have thought it would come to this!

I am totally against identity politics and the proliferation of flags — gay, trans, Aboriginal, BLM, Extinction Rebellion, Palestine, what have you.

But it seems to me that if women are going to fight for their rights, they too should have a flag.  So I have devised a suitable logo for a Woman’s Pride flag.  It is one that cannot be misappropriated by trans activists and is based on the answer that Dr Murphy should have been able to provide without a moment’s  hesitation: A woman is an adult human beingwho, strictly speaking, has no Y chromosome, but for practical purposes we may think of her as generally having two X chromosomes. 

Atop this column is my suggestion for a Woman’s Pride flag. Below, the IPA’s Dr Bella D’Abrera on Murphy’s tongue-tied, waffle-o-matic, 78-word “definition” of  a woman.  And here’s a further report on Tickle Vs. Giggle