Once upon a time, men and women lived and worked together to survive the brutal realities of nature, hunger, violence, and hardship.

Then one day, as life became safer and more comfortable thanks to that partnership, someone decided they didn’t want to be the gender they were born as. In the blink of an eye it became verboten to question someone’s gender if they didn’t necessarily appear as what they said they were.

This restriction doesn’t solely pertain to social interactions; current medical practice dictates that humans are “assigned” a sex at birth based on their genitalia – a choice framed as subjective and treated as interchangeable at any future point, even by a child’s whim. To disbelieve them is socially branded as transphobic.

So what is transgenderism precisely?

Unlike intersex conditions (the I in LGBTIQCAPGN¿GFNBA+), which involve a range of anomalous variations in XX and XY chromosomes – medically referred to as Differences of Sex Development (DSD), transgenderism occurs when someone says they are the gender other than that which they were born as, as a result of either confusion, mental illness, or sexual fetish.

Somehow, however, the cultural conversation shifted from gender being interchangeable to sex being interchangeable and no one even noticed. Birth certificates, passports, and driver’s licences – once permanent records of biological reality – can now be rewritten with ease to match whichever gender delusion someone is indulging today.

There is no objective scientific test – no brain scan, blood test, chromosome analysis, or psychological assessment – that can reliably determine that a person’s sex is different from their biological reality at birth. What remains instead is solely self-identification: a person’s subjective feeling or declaration.

This has coincided with a troubling explosion in youth medicalisation, particularly among adolescent girls, where puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries carry serious risks of infertility, bone loss, and lifelong sexual dysfunction.

At the same time, biological males are invading female sports – destroying fairness and causing real injuries – while others are housed within women’s prisons and domestic violence shelters, often with devastating consequences for vulnerable women and girls. Sex-based data in crime statistics and health records is being erased, and lesbian spaces are under siege.

With the Full Bench of the Federal Court recently doubling the $10,000 damages awarded to Roxanne Tickle, a biological male wearing makeup and a dress who was removed from the women’s-only app Giggle, owner Sall Grover was furthermore ordered to cover Tickle’s costs of the appeal, capped at $100,000.

This decision has riled many people, and rightly so. Having exhausted the Federal Court appeal process, Grover intends to take her fight to the High Court of Australia.

If you’re angry, do something about it: write a letter, join a political party, help out Grover financially if you can, fill the public galleries in future legal proceedings, educate yourself on these matters, and push back with reason when these topics come up in conversation.

Because until then there is no reliable way for anyone to determine if someone who identifies as trans is a sexual fiend or mentally unsafe, and we need to prioritise the safety and wellbeing of biological females – whether it be on the sports field, in changerooms, toilets, or even prisons.

So remember kids: don’t get angry, get active. It is every real man’s duty to protect women and girls, they remain at risk as long as this absurdity is allowed to continue.