I very rarely talk about how mentally & emotionally hard it is to deal with gender ideology when you’re in the eye of a legal battle against it, mainly because a) I don’t want to waste the opportunities I get to talk about this issue talking about myself and b) I’m just not someone who particularly dwells on it anyway. I focus most of my energy on the end goal and try to not get lost in the weeds. Honestly, you’d go crazy if you just sat around focusing on the magnitude of this situation all the time. And I’d be of absolutely no use to anyone if I went crazy. So I don’t. Also, I just know I’m right. Men are not women. Anyone who thinks they are is wrong. It’s that simple. This is not to say that @deves_katherine hasn’t had to listen to me vent/breakdown on a few occasions. Oh, boy, she has. We find rationality and move on. Men are not women, let’s get on with the day. But there is something that is just in the *background* of every second of my life, since January 20 2022 - 3 years on Monday - giving me close to debilitating anxiety, which I expel a lot of energy to quickly overcome, and it’s been playing on my mind lately. When an institution like the Australian Human Rights Commission is against you on such a basic fact, men are women v men are not women, it makes you fearful of what else will be against you & punish you for something so obvious. And it manifests in ways like, not wanting to look at emails. Because that’s where the AHRC complaint first came in. Every time my phone rings/pings I instinctively think “what now?” Every time. Even while driving, just expecting to be pulled over & told that you’re doing it wrong. Just talking to people, sometimes I find myself expecting them to punish me for not thinking that up is down and I have to take a deep breath & refocus. This is what happens when you’re attacked (& punished) at your most basic instinct, and it’s work to fight against it. I very much think it’s the ultimate goal of gender ideology, so I do think it’s important to talk about. Gender ideology wants to wear people down, it’s the only way it could possibly be successful. Make people feel crazy. Fearful. Suddenly, men are women by default. But, and I genuinely believe this, no matter how stressful, scary or overwhelming it feels, there is nothing more powerful than knowing that you’re right. The absolute power of truth. And, it’s actually very rare to know that you are 100% right. Most of the time we operate with a bit of caution or humility. There is lots of uncertainty. There are many things we can be wrong about. But men being women just isn’t one of them. The moment I remember that, I’m filled with complete relief.
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