GENDER AGENDA CONFUSED

A YEAR after the release of the biopic I Am Woman, the author of the clarion call for 70s second-wave feminism has died.

Helen Reddy had been diagnosed with dementia when she came out of retirement to give the last public performance of her signature tune in the 2017 Concert for America.

The concept of the title of her song has now become more controversial than her proclamation that God was a woman.

The current social media debate on transgender identity politics and womanhood has taken its toll on high-profile cisgender personalities over the last decade.

J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame has fallen foul of non-reading gender diversity warriors with her latest Galbraith crime thriller, in which the protagonist serial killer performs his murders disguised as a woman.

Actress Scarlett Johansson experienced so much pushback that she withdrew from the role of a trans man in biopic Rub & Tug.

Gender dysphoria TEDX Talks presenters complain that would-be transgender sympathisers are only interested in their transition, their genitalia operations and the problem of which bathroom they use.

Canadian professor Jordan Peterson has become a Youtube celebrity for refusing to use any of the 70+ pronouns advocated for transgender people. The stupidity is that none of the preferred third-person pronouns are grammatically relevant when addressing a transgender person.

The semantic error is mindlessly perpetuated in Australia, where a spokesman(!) for transgender sporting guidelines is currently attempting to dispel any snowflake image by reassuring non-transgender athletes it’s OK to make errors in pronouns with personal interactions.

This is obviously far more important than any biological, psychological or philosophical discourse on transgender in a rapidly changing sociocultural world.

WILLIAM ROSS,

Cranbrook.