Female-Only App Creator SUED - Sall Grover
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Sally Grover is the founder of Women s Only App, a women-only support network, which has proven extraordinarily controversial. In this episode, she talks about her journey to becoming a woman in the entertainment industry, why she founded the app, and why she's fighting for the right to say, "A man is not a woman."
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Why don't we create an app for women, basically so that women could have this women-only support network?
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And cut to three and a half years later, I'm being taken to Australian Federal Court by a man who claims to be a woman.
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The moment that you say that I have to think you're a woman and come into a woman's space, you've made it my business and I'm not going to accept it.
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There's a huge chance that this case will go to the high court, so I have to raise a million dollars to fight for the right to say,
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Our guest today is an Australian founder of Women's Only App, which has proven extraordinarily controversial.
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Before we get into it, Sal, tell everybody a little bit about who are you,
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what has been the journey through life that leads you to be sitting here talking to us?
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Okay, so basically I, you know, spent a lot of time at university.
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I did a bachelor and almost two master's degrees.
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I left just shy of finishing a master's degree in philosophy.
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And then I went to Hollywood of all places where, you know, academia is just so respected,
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And I got into the industry relatively easily and quickly in hindsight.
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Once I was in the industry working in it, it became a nightmare that I was just so unprepared for.
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It was everything that the Me Too movement became about.
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I was in therapy just trying to recover from everything that had happened.
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My therapist said, you should have a strong female support network in your life.
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And my mom and I were speaking a lot about what I'd been through and what I was learning in therapy.
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And it was my mom who said, why don't we create an app for women?
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So that, you know, basically so that women could have like this women-only support network in the
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And initially it was going to just be a roommate app, but we developed the idea.
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We were like, oh, it can be for like roommates and freelance work and emotional support,
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just having a voice and lesbian dating and finding friends,
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just anything that a woman might need to do, like on a little corner of the internet.
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Before we launched it, trans activists discovered us and infiltrated the App Store and Google Play
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with one-star reviews, called us transphobic, got blacklisted from everything.
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And cut to three and a half years later, I'm being taken to Australian Federal Court by a man
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And the Australian Human Rights Commission has intervened in the case on his side.
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And I have to raise the Federal Court $500,000, but there's a huge chance that this case will go to
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So I have to raise a million dollars to fight for the right to say a man is not a woman.
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So let's just go back to the moment where you decide to develop this app.
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It got targeted, you mentioned, before being released even.
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So we were on the App Store and Google Play just doing some beta testing,
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you know, just before we would pet plan to, you know, launch it wide.
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And there was a handful of women around the world, mainly like friends or friends of friends,
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And we were just ironing out any little bugs, testing all the features and our security and
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And basically to get on the app, so it would be female only.
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We had an onboarding process, which was that you would take a selfie and that selfie would
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go through AI and it would be that AI would help us determine if the user was male or female,
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Because you actually can tell if someone is male or female just by looking at them.
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I remember when we first got the idea and we were thinking like, how would this even
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be possible to make an online space just for women?
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And when we found out that there was this technology that we could use, my thought was,
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oh, well, that's the least controversial way to do it because everyone takes selfies all
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And you can, yeah, you can just tell, like we walk down the street every day, not even
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That's a man, that's a woman, blah, blah, blah.
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Like it's just, it's so beyond like just subconscious second nature or whatever.
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I didn't know that we had so blindly yet perfectly walked into this sex versus gender war where
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people were saying that any man could say he was a woman and be accepted as that.
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I mean, we couldn't have, you couldn't have planned it better.
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And so I'm not sure exactly how the trans activists found us, but they did in that testing
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And because we didn't have all of like the onboarding features set to how they were going
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to be for launch or anything, just we were inundated with thousands upon thousands of
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men who created profiles saying kill TERFs and rape TERFs and whatnot.
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And so that's how I was introduced to the term TERF.
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And they left reviews on the app store and Google play, like thousands of them saying,
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So just straight away, I was like, I have to find out what's going on.
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And I found on Twitter, um, that there were women like Helen Joyce, Julie Bindle, Kathleen
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Stock, um, Jane Claire Jones, Glenna, all these people.
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And then a lot of other women as well, speaking out going, you know, sort of the house is on
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fire and I just, and, uh, Kelly J is the other one, sorry, that I also discovered.
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And I just, I just started researching everything I could about it.
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And then when JK Rowling did her around, when she did her essay, that's what sort of gave
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me the courage to be like, okay, I need to start speaking out about this because I have
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a startup that's floundering and I, I don't believe I've done anything wrong.
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Was it a particular individual who let other people know on social media?
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I have absolutely no idea where that very first one began.
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I couldn't tell you, but I do know that like, um, as we went on, like, so there would be
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So there might only be 50, but then you'd have a day when it was like thousands, like
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in fact thousands an hour, like it was just crazy.
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So you'd see who was trying to get on and that they were just men.
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Um, and sometimes there'd be this big influx and they'd be wearing gamer headsets.
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And so it'd be like, oh, this must be a Twitch related thing or something.
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Sometimes it would be trans activists on Twitter.
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Cause I, I find the tweets like, um, that Katie Montgomery individual had done it a few
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In fact, when I was in labor with my daughter, we were under attack then.
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And then I eventually had to say like, I can't monitor this anymore.
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Um, but yeah, so sometimes we could trace it to sort of some trans activist online, but
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other times it was just like, who knows where this is coming from.
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And because there was one particular individual who was the headliner, shall we put it, uh,
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So Roxanne Tickle is the man who claims to be a woman who is taking me to federal court.
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So his story with the app is slightly different in terms of, um, not being sort of someone
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I don't think I'm not a hundred percent sure, but anyway.
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So he actually did make it onto the app and I'll explain how that can happen.
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So with the onboarding software that we had, we had it set to 94% accuracy because through
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So no woman would get rejected, but maybe occasionally there would be a man that would come through.
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And our reasoning was, it would be better to have to kick out some men occasionally than
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to not have, to have any woman like just be rejected from the app.
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So rightly or wrongly, that's what we went with.
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So occasionally there was like a guy that we'd get through, we'd be alerted to it or we'd
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Um, sometimes they would like, um, fall through our checking system.
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Um, I don't remember it at the time specifically because it was just another guy I was kicking
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off, but I saw that there was a guy on there and I was like, oh, off you go.
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And then a few weeks later, I got a call and a text on my phone from him saying like, this
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is like the first time he became like a relative person in my life saying, like I'm Roxy Tickle
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Um, I think he might've said he was trans then.
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I just didn't think that this person was ever going to take me to court.
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And so I, because I had the phone number, I just put it into our system and checked and
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And I called my dad and I was like, there's this guy who's trying to get on Twitter, open
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And my dad said, block him, block his, like block his number and don't tell your mother
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because my mom lives in like perpetual fear that I'm going to get attacked.
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And then two months later, I got a, um, she, I was served with a human rights complaint
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from the Australian Human Rights Commission from Roxy Tickle for alleged gender identity
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So to put it into perspective of how long this has been going on for my daughter is 14
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And by the time this is all resolved, there's a good chance she'll be three, maybe four.
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I mean, so there will be people listening to this going, well, you know, so you're being
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Why is it so important that your app is a female only space?
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Can you explain to us why, why is it so important that the app is female only?
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Well, if it, in terms of just rather, instead of just getting into like the importance of
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female only spaces, just in terms of this particular one, if the app isn't female only, it's like
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Like the point of difference with it is it's female only.
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Like, I mean, if I was to let men who claim to be women on, then it's not female only.
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And yeah, I've just invented a place that's exactly like any other place on the internet.
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Like this person is not a woman and I'm just, I'm not going to give in to that.
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And second, like female only spaces, women's rights in general, whether it's female only
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spaces, women's sport and services or different opportunities that are offered to women, they
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are just, they're just too important and already like hard fought for it to just give in.
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I've never really been someone who is, I've never been an activist before in my life or
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anything like that, but I'm just like, no, I, I care too much about this, but I really
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And I just can't, I can't let society just force us all to believe this.
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Does it surprise you that Australia has then essentially, they're on the side, Australia
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or the law, the legal system is on the side of this person who claims to be a woman called
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I mean, I was in America when the law was changed.
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We had our first female prime minister and it's her government that did this, which is
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So it was Julia Gillard was prime minister and her government took out the definition of woman
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from the Sex Discrimination Act and put in gender identity into it, which made the act
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completely muddled because now you have gender in the Sex Discrimination Act.
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So it's not specifically that recognizing sex is outlawed in any way.
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Now, no one has tested it in any massive way yet in Australia.
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Most people have been, um, you know, just intimidated by the law and the process.
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There's a lot of places that have just fallen to it and given in because, you know, it is
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so daunting, but you know, I just, I couldn't because I, I mean, you guys know it's like when
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I, you know, these people invested in an app for women.
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And I have a responsibility to these people and just to women in general and to myself.
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And so I was like, yeah, I'll take it all the way to fight it.
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We're doing a constitutional challenge, um, basically to try and get gender out of the
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Sex Discrimination Act because it doesn't work there.
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Well, Sal, I really want to pick up on that because it's really a fascinating conversation
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that, as you well know, is happening around the world, not just in Australia.
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But I'm curious to, look, I know for you it's personal, so it's perhaps insensitive of me
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It's a question we've discussed with various people.
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I mean, Sam Harris, when we last had him on, he was saying, well, look, I think Twitter
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should be able to discriminate against anybody if they don't want this person on the platform.
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But then I suppose the question is, what if somebody wanted to create an app for, I don't
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know, only white people or only Gentiles or whatever, you know, called Tinder or something?
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So, you know, I suppose the question Francis asked you earlier, I think is important to
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answer, which is why is it important to have an app that is able to exclude men?
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I mean, apps that, like some niche social networks that exclude people is nothing new.
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I mean, in 2010, no one was asking Grindr to justify why they were excluding women.
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It's only because of the introduction of gender ideology that suddenly we have to justify all
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of these things because they've turned society upside down so much.
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But niche apps and websites in general exist for everyone.
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I mean, in terms of like there is apps that are religious based, like there are dating
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apps like J-Date and things like that that aren't just based on religion.
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And they've never been asked to justify themselves in the manner that something just for women
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And it's interesting, like when you're talking to a lot of women, like we just get it.
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And then when you're talking to men, you have to go like, how do you try and explain why
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a woman, an app just for women would be important?
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I just want you to explain it for people who are, yeah.
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So, I mean, the internet is different for everyone and a cesspool for everybody.
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It is very much an interesting place for women.
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Like part of the reason how we got the idea for it is when I'd moved from Hollywood to
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New York before I'd come home, I was looking for a room to rent in New York.
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And in that process, like I was just using like roommates.com and all of those things.
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And, you know, there'd be these guys going, oh, do you want, you could rent a room here
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for free if you walk around naked, or do you want a boyfriend as well?
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And it was just like, can I just do one thing without this cool stuff, like just something.
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And so it was just sort of going like, okay, there is just, is there just a way to just
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have a little refuge where we could just avoid that if we wanted to.
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Like, obviously there's lots of women who are like, oh, no, don't care.
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But then there are women who are just like, no, I'd like to just spend some time with
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women, basically, and talk and just connect and talk to women all around the world.
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So, yeah, I mean, I understand the need to justify it.
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And obviously, like, I mean, I'm going to have to in court, but it is a weird situation
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where you're like, you know, there is an app out there right now.
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It encourages like 18 year old girls to get on there and take naked photos of themselves
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for like a depressingly small amount of money for most of them.
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And again, no one is asking anyone to justify this.
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But the moment it's like something women, it's like, why?
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And I think the answer is because we do, because we want it.
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You should have to go much further than that in sort of a, just in a social situation.
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But what does it say as to the wider society, to the way that we perceive women, to the way
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that women are, let's say, I mean, judged in one way or another?
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However, the fact that you want to set up an app, which is only for women and for the
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vast majority of people, they go, well, yeah, okay, I get it.
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But to a small percentage of people, that is deemed to be offensive.
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Well, yeah, I mean, because most men, like most men are lovely.
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We wouldn't be functioning as a society if most men weren't lovely.
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The moment a guy is trying to get onto it, you're like, oh, the chances of you being
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But at the same time, like, it's like, say, to use the example that I'm going through,
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like Roxanne Tickle can't go on the app for the exact same reason that my dad can't use
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Like the man that I trust more than any man in the world.
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So I'm not making necessarily a personal judgment on like the applicant in the case.
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Sal, do you think a lot of this is happening because we've sort of tried to pretend for
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a while that there is no difference between men and women and people have sort of imbibed
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this idea, but actually there is quite a big difference.
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And I understand, by the way, the intention of the people who wanted to raise those differences.
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They wanted to protect, you know, they wanted to empower women.
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They wanted women to get into places where power was held, et cetera, et cetera.
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But we somehow ended up in a place where maybe that idea got taken to its logical conclusion
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I wrestle with this a lot because, like, I think, you know, obviously, like, say feminism would
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be the ideology or, like, the belief system or whatever that would be talking about here
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And, you know, there's nothing that's above criticism.
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So I think that it's always important to just go like, oh, hang on, did they do something
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Yeah, I mean, I go like, even if there were just some feminists or women who called themselves
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or self-identified as feminists that they're actually not, they sort of, like, lost their
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way a little bit and sort of overthought something that didn't even need to be thought about.
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You just go like, yeah, but still there was no feminist theory or want in society that
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was ever, like, implemented without, like, a massive fight, like, huge, huge fights.
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I mean, women, to get the right to vote was decades and very traumatic.
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Whereas this, in terms of how it was just implemented into society and institutional capture and then
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into laws in stealth for most of the time, I just don't think that society went, this one
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feminist idea, we're going to really grab and just implement with no argument and go with it
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It just, it doesn't, it doesn't make sense to me.
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So while, like, there might have been some academics who are sort of talking nonsense,
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I don't know if that's really what caused this.
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I do think, I'm sort of in agreement with, like, Helen Joyce on this, that it was, like,
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the autogynophiles, this sort of the sexual fetishists, especially the really powerful ones
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with, like, she calls it, like, the nuclear reactor in it and just that drive and their
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money and power was potentially the thing to get us to where we are now more than anything
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else, in terms of where we are in legal capture, I think.
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Because they want more than anything else to be able to go into female-only spaces.
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What is their argument as to why they should be allowed to access your app?
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Is it that you're not affirming their identity?
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Well, if they claim to be women, they are women, according to the current definition,
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Well, what's really interesting about that is you would think, then, if they actually
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thought of this individual as a woman, or any man who claims to be a woman as a woman,
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But they're like, no, this is gender identity discrimination.
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It's like, well, the fact that you're not even calling it sex discrimination actually
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does prove to a point that you don't think this person is a woman either.
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You're just going in with an ideology that's been created.
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So the Australian Human Rights Commission has intervened in the case as amicus curia, which
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And they're definitely not my friend in the court.
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They have intervened and said, yes, this man is a woman.
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Um, the submission that they came out a few weeks ago, I can't even articulate it.
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It is the most batshit insane 26 pages I've ever read in my entire life.
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It's like you're reading it going like, this is like a draft for 1984 that Orwell went, no,
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They literally say that, um, biologists, this is a sex discrimination commissioner saying
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is that sex is not binary, but it can also be changed.
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They, at one point they were saying that, um, a trans woman's desire to be pregnant would
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And so you just, like, they don't really have any arguments beyond we say he's a woman.
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So therefore he's a woman and, and sex can be changed.
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Like that's one of the craziest things in the whole process.
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And I think some other people who have had to go through legal processes with this, with
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gender ideology specifically would feel the same.
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You're in this position where you've got to find all of this evidence and, and, you know,
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argue your case and make sure you can back it up with facts.
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But at no point is anyone going, should we get evidence that he's a woman?
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Like if you're just being able to assert he's a woman, like that's just not how the legal
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process works in any other area from my understanding was always been evidence based.
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And, you know, you just, you go like, you know, one of the things in, um, in the human rights
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commission, submission and description of the law, they're saying, you know, it's a gender
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And you're like, well, you know, if we're talking about lived experience or anything here,
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this gendered behavior is exactly how I would expect a man to behave.
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Like, where does my lived experience come into it?
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But I want to ask you, do you think that the, this is all about the invention of this idea
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of gender identity and, and everything else cascades down from that?
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We've had this conversation with many people on the show, as you know, I am very, I remain
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highly unconvinced that the creation of the concept of gender was a useful, a good thing.
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Um, and it seems to me like once you say, well, there are sex and then there is gender
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This inevitably follows because the concept of gender is sort of how you behave makes what
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you are and then, well, then people can pretend to be whatever they want because they can
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wear a dress and then suddenly they are a woman.
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I mean, there is an argument to be made that the gender does not need to be in the law at
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And it would actually be better for society if it wasn't because first of all, you know,
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making, um, an identity, especially sort of, you know, just this, um, self-declared identity,
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the responsibility of the law is incredibly difficult and messy, but even just like the
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protection of sex, which everybody has, and it's, you know, easy to acknowledge and establish
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and everything actually does all of the work in the law.
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So like, if you are a man who wants to wear women's clothes or whatever, which like, I am
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very like live and let live, even if I don't like the reason why he wants to wear women's
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clothes, like whether it is autogynephilia or something, still I'm like in a free society,
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The law doesn't have to be involved in any specific way because if saying in an employment
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situation, you would think that if he wanted to wear women's clothes and he was told he was not
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allowed, it would be on the basis of his sex that he wasn't allowed because they'd be going,
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But if so, that would be, that would be a sex discrimination.
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The state should stay out of people's brains like this.
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It should just be there to make sure society is functioning.
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But gender has made it that nothing is functioning.
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Everything's getting distracted because of this, like the stupidest issue of all time.
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And it's look, and let's be brutally honest about this.
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Australia don't have a good record for the last couple of years for staying out of people's
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You went to use a technical term, absolutely batshit as a result of that.
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It's one of those situations where when like, when you're living here and you don't, you
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You sort of wake up one day and you go, oh, it's, God, it's been happening for years.
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It's unusual because Australians are pretty easygoing people.
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We're also pretty straightforward and like some no bullshit kind of people.
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So there, it's definitely, definitely like there is that.
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I mean, it's like in the UK, it's like in the US and Canada, it was so divided right
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now of basically the people have bought into all of this crap and seem to apparently love
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And then you've got to look at the other people who are like, no, I'd prefer to think
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Like that it was even all happening with the gender stuff as I was focusing on, I was still
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Also in my online like algorithms, I was very much in like an, I hate Trump Twitter bubble.
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And then COVID happened and I was starting to go, oh, oh, that's a bit weird.
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And then, yeah, we all woke up to find out that, oh, hey, you don't have that many rights
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And it's not like the UK was particularly good on that stuff either.
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And tell us more about how the legal case has gone and what your expectations are for
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So we basically, he, so he, he'd done last year, he'd done the Australian human rights
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And that's where they, they try and resolve it outside of the courts, basically like a
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And he wants a written apology and, um, all men who claim to be woman on the app, um,
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in, in court, he's going for money as well for damages, but in initial human rights,
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like he wasn't, I think the conditions for me to go to conciliation were that I'd have
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to, him on the app, all men think to be woman on the app, um, an apology, attend sex
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and gender education, which could only be re-education because I am very educated on
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Um, so, so they want, sorry, again, sorry to interrupt, but I think this is important
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not to skip over part of the things that you will do.
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If you lose this case, you have to go on a re-education course.
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And then the other thing was, um, they wanted me to mod, uh, moderate all content on the app
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so that like men like him would not be offended because basically there are a lot of women just
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turfing out on there and talking about their rights and because of course they can, they
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can go and talk about them without trans activists, men, male trans activists getting
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Now, a female trans activist would be welcome to come onto the app.
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Um, so long as she was civil and didn't harass and just abided by the rules.
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Like you don't, there's no like thought control or anything.
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No one has to agree with everything, but I mean, they basically stayed away from it.
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So I said no to conciliation because I knew that I was never going to agree to those terms.
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And then also by this point, I was like third trimester pregnancy and I didn't, with the
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stress of it, I was, I'm not putting myself through it, not going to happen.
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And so we said no to it and knowing that the risk could be that he'd take it to federal
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He filed on the 61st day, uh, the 60th day, but just how the days felt was felt it was the
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Then he withdrew about a month later, which we were like, Oh, basically that's a win.
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And then he refiled again about five and a half months later, like Christmas time last
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So when he refiled again, he was what's fastest out of time, like beyond like the time from
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So he had to get granted permission to, for the case to be heard.
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And by this point I was like, we could have really pushed back on that, but I was like,
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And if this is the case, it's going to help resolve it.
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Like, you know, you, you don't want to do it, but you're sort of in the position where
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you're like, okay, I'm just going to rise to the occasion because maybe hopefully we
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can just end this and we can all live on with our lives and have some normality back.
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So in the case, yeah, he's asking for, um, yeah, money for damages and like, because
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So, well, I'm not sure because Australian damages work very specifically.
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So like, I don't think that it's not, I don't think it's like millions and millions of dollars.
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Like, but, um, but it's, it's still just money.
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Like it is a thing where you just go like, it's just an app.
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Uh, it's just an app and like, I, I don't, but, but it's not though.
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That's why you, that's why you're fighting it because of the principle.
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So basically, um, the other, and actually this, just to go back to your point earlier
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about, um, about people being able to choose who it is, who, who are on their platform and
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who are not, and where sort of is the line with that.
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Um, so for us, we built our own crowdfunding platform because we had the resources to do
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And we knew that we would get kicked off, like GoFundMe or anything like that, because they
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So like, just, we'll just, I don't want the stress of it.
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We have been, so then building our own, we had to put in payment systems, like so that,
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you know, you can just put your card details in or Apple and Google pay, whatever.
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So we've been kicked off to payment platforms on the basis of complaints, been kicked off
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So the crowdfunder is actually down at the moment because we're trying to find a third.
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Um, thankfully, but at both of the times that it's happened, it's obviously a huge inconvenience
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and it's really frustrating, but I've always sat there and gone, well, if you don't want
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I'm not going to go and take you to court over it.
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What I would like is the right to do the same thing is to choose who is and who is not on
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So even during this process, I've experienced people having the rights that I would like
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Um, and yeah, not things, hopefully we'll get there.
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And I think we will, like, I'm very, very optimistic about it because I just think, I just think
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Sometimes you have to fight for it, but I think you get there in the end.
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My question is, and look, maybe you don't know the answer to this.
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Um, so from my understanding, his legal team is pro bono because, you know, I mean, you're
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a big firm and it's like, oh, this is a big, you know, civil rights, human rights case, you
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know, poor transgender woman not being allowed to go on an app.
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And then he also got a $50,000 branch from, um, it's called the Brada Fund.
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Which, um, is, um, like a, they, they give like funding to like legislation challenges
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So, yeah, I mean, but in a case like this, where, um, you know, a federal court case,
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So it's not like an obscene amount of money that he's been given, but yeah, I mean, the
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financial threat to him is significantly different than what it is to me.
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Like, obviously there is no government funds that I can go to, to ask for money because
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I'm battling the government and they're against me.
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So while the case is always like tickle be giggle, it is fundamentally because of the Australian
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Human Rights Commission, it's giggle versus the government.
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Do they have to, do they have to rethink the law?
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So there's a few different ways that it can go.
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So we're expecting that it's going to go to the high court, no matter what, because if
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we were to lose in federal court, obviously we're going to appeal it to the high court.
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And if they lose, especially the Australian Human Rights Commission lose in federal court,
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there's a huge chance that they would take it to the high court.
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So you're sort of in this now going like it's high chance it's going to go to the high court.
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So the high court is really where the constitutional arguments will come into play from my
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So if we were to win on a constitutional basis, um, and it was to be found that gender being
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in the Sex Discrimination Act is unconstitutional.
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I mean, part of the reason for that is with CEDAW, which like the UN and CEDAW and the, you
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know, um, the protection of women's rights and all of that, I'm going to have a complete
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Um, you know, we're a signatory in that and they, you know, this is not an organization
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that claims that, that trans women are women and our Sex Discrimination Act is based on
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So that's what part of where our constitutional argument comes in.
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If we win that constitutional argument in the high court, it would mean that gender is
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So it would mean that sex is once again, the defining factor of the Sex Discrimination
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Act, which is what a stupid sentence to have to say, but it would mean that female-only
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spaces were female again, female-only sports and male-only spaces as well, because I think
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that men deserve privacy and dignity in male spaces as well.
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Um, it would mean that self-ID was off the table.
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And so would, I mean, they're not obviously going to go just slink away and be like, oh,
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They would obviously try and come back and weave it through the law in a different way,
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but they'd be doing it where sex had been established as the important thing.
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And also people knowing what's going on and watching.
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It sounds like a really important case to me, actually, Sal, because I think one of the
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things that has been happening is there's a tremendous amount of, uh, cowardice actually
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Uh, and I think everybody's just looking for somebody to take the first step.
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And so if Australia was to come to a position as a result of you winning, where you were forced
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to rethink the sort of structural legal underpinning of all of this, I think a lot of other
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Anglosphere countries might, might then be emboldened to follow suit.
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I mean, it's, it's like how, like, you know, in the UK where you guys are in such a better
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position than we are on this particular issue, you know, part of the reason is because women
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Um, and we just, we didn't have a chance to take it to the courts before a lot of the
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stuff was done because we didn't know about it.
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So it is just bigger and a little bit harder, but it's still completely entirely possible.
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So yeah, it's just, it, it will be hopefully the thing that makes other countries, like especially
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Canada, for example, if you think of other Commonwealth countries to make them go, oh, hang on.
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I mean, just last week, a, um, news organization in Australia called news.com.au, which is very
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Um, they call me a, um, a conservative media figure all the time because welcome to the
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They only ever refer to me as like a media figure or a conservative media figure.
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Like they won't give any publicity to giggle or any, like they won't tell people what I
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Um, but they just did a poll and found that only 4.2% of Australians think trans women are
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women and like 82.5% of Australians don't want trans women, men in women's sport.
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It's like, this is like deeply unpopular in the public.
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Well, Matt Goodwin, who's a regular guest of ours, as you know, he tweeted something,
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uh, recently, which basically shows that support for self ID and all of this stuff is just
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going through the floor as people get more educated about the issues.
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And it's not surprising because surprise, surprise, it's not that complicated.
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But it's like how the trans activists try and spin it and say like, there's an increasing
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And it's not, it's just more people realizing that these gender policies are nonsense.
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It's like, if like the transgender activism community had gone, look, we just are a demographic
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of people who, you know, like to appear like the opposite sex.
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I think, I think it would have been pretty easy to get people to be like, okay, about
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Like most people are let live and let live, don't really care.
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It doesn't bother me, you know, get on with it.
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It's because they said that we have to believe this lie, you know, in fear of punishment that
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Like, if it was just a situation, like we'd say with Roxy Tickle, I'm like, if you want
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to get up every day and call yourself a woman and wear a woman's clothes and take hormones
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The moment that you say that I have to think you're a woman and come into a woman's space,
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you've made it my business and I'm not going to accept it.
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There's more and more places in Australia that are fighting back.
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The Lesbian Action Groups, which is a Melbourne-based group, they're trying to get an exemption
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to be able to hold a female-only lesbian event like there's any other kind.
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And the Australian Human Rights Commission has just said no to them.
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Wait, so lesbians can't have a female-only event?
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Basically, they're all like, you know, we're just against discrimination.
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Because you're discriminating against lesbians right now.
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Discriminate against lesbians or discriminate against heterosexual men who like to wear dresses.
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So they are fighting back and willing to take it all the way as well, which is fantastic.
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But yeah, I mean, that's where it is in society.
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Like one of the women in Lesbian Action Group, she phrased it so well.
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She said that, you know, she can get married now, but she can't go to a lesbian event to meet a spouse.
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So yeah, like, so it's like we're not going forward in society.
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We're going backwards at a very, very fast pace.
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And whatever happens, I mean, to be blunt, you are going to end up in the high court.
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Because if Tickle, I mean, this is just bizarre, loses in the constitutional court,
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he's going to take it to the high court because he's not going to accept that.
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So I don't know if it would be more him specifically, if it would be the Australian Human Rights Commission.
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I would sort of think that the Australian Human Rights Commission who would sort of say,
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you know, we're going to fight to the end on this.
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Because, I mean, the Australian Human Rights Commission, from my understanding of what I've read about it,
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they were one of the ones who lobbied for these laws.
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So I think they are really there sort of protecting the law that they fought for, that they wrote.
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And, I mean, so I understand, like, just from that perspective, why they would be there fighting it for the law.
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It's just that they've written a law that is so insane that, you know, they just didn't, it's like,
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they just didn't think of, oh, like, what are the ramifications?
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Because it's like any part of gender ideology, like, if you think about it for more than one second,
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like, by the time you get to that second second, every part of it has fallen apart.
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Because you should go, like, oh, hang on, male rapists are going to say they're women and go,
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we're going to reward them by putting them in women's prisons, all female-only spaces and sport,
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But then also society's freedom of belief or freedom of speech is just gone in an instant.
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They were just like, oh, protect this one group.
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Why did these groups be protected more than anyone else?
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So listen, I want to move on to our local sections because we've got a ton of questions from our supporters.
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But I just wanted to say that, you know, you and I have spoken a little bit on Twitter and stuff,
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and I'm really glad we had you on because I don't think I fully appreciated the significance of the case you're fighting
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and the potential impact, actually, not just in Australia, but in the world.
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So I really hope that, obviously, you do win, and I hope that people support you.
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Is there a way that people can support you at the moment?
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So, like, hopefully by the time this comes out, it will all be up and running, hopefully, in the next few days, basically.
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And there's all information about the case and the constitutional challenge is all there.
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And, yeah, I mean, we have $500,000 Australian dollars to raise at this stage, which is just, like, so incredibly stressful.
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But, yeah, I know that we'll get there, and the kindness of strangers from all around the world so far has been just absolutely amazing.
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And the only way I can repay it back is by saying, like, we'll get your rights back.
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It will be all cool, and then you can go around calling a man a man, and everything will be fantastic.
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Sal, before we go over to locals, we obviously, as you know, end with the same question in this part of the interview, which is…
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What's the one thing we're not talking about that we really should be?
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I think it does sort of come back to everything that I've just been saying.
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I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that just, like, the very foundation of democracy, you know, the freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom of association,
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is just at the altar of a demographic of men's feelings right now.
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And it's, if we can't talk about that, then we can't fix it.
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And I'm just not willing to give up, you know, just this real thing, democracy, the most important thing for these people.
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I will say this, even though I'm instantly going to fall into the feminist trap of hashtag not all men.
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Like, you know, whenever I talk about this, Deb, like, I'll say, oh, a demographic of men.
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I'll say this on Twitter and they'll be like, oh, not all men.
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I'm like, if you don't fit into that demographic, I'm not talking about you.
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I'm just saying, I think there are actually a lot of men on your side.
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And I think that's, you know, one of the reasons I think progress is being made is actually it's men and women coming together and working together, which I think we want.
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And I think, you know, men, men have spoken up sometimes that they've been in a position more where they're sort of, they're not getting rape threats and death threats for speaking up at the same sort of rate that a woman is.
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I mean, there are men around the world who are losing their jobs and being punished.
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But I think, you know, for a lot of men that they have seen that it's not even just an attack on women's rights.
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And even from my perspective, if that's the only reason you're coming at this issue, I'm fine with that.
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Women's rights will be won as a byproduct.
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But so it's like, if you're like, I don't really care about women's rights.
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We'll get there in the end together and women's rights will be saved.
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Well, head on over to Locals where we continue the conversation, especially with your questions.
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Do you think the trans phenomenon is a woke fad or is it here to stay?
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June 7th, 2026 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.