An Open Letter to Julia Gillard

Give me back my human rights. Repeal the 2013 SDA.

Dear Julia.

First of all, I hate telling this story. I can’t believe it was a story I ever even had to utter.

I was hit-on by a transvestite in my rape-crisis centre. Thanks to you.

At the time, I was so horrified: why was he in there? Who was protecting me from him?
I left that place and never went back.
And I didn’t speak up, because I was so in shock, I didn’t even know what was happening.

I was haunted by it for years; especially the faces of the other women in the centre. And their stories that they shared with me. Everything I do today, I do for them.

Then I learned that, that guy had a legal right to be there. Somewhere, somehow, my state had passed a law that men were now women if they say so. Or something.

Then I learned that it was you who erased women completely from the Sex Discrimination Act, in 2013.

I don’t really understand law; I was living on the streets at age 14 due to a history of CSA.
This abuse continued throughout my life, by various men, of various ages, known and unknown, of various classes and ethnicities. So did living on the streets, in my own city.

My community services for women were really helping me process my repeat traumas and the injustice of them, while providing me with all sorts of things to help me - including just a safe room to have a nap in, without men trying to rape me.

Rape is really dissociative, and these women’s centres really helped pull me back into my body.

“Safe Women” - like yourself - have no idea of the physical and metaphysical advantages of “Women’s Business”; which is private, and not for public record.

TO THIS DAY… I cannot find a psychologist who knows that humans can’t change sex.

I am abused for even asking.

No-one specialises in trauma anymore, because women - and the crimes against us - don’t exist. Not even CASA.
Despite the prevalence of violence against women, for which I have all the statistics; statistics that I need to stay sane while being gaslit by the Australian Government.

Men are slowly sullying women’s statistics and data by claiming to be women when they commit their crimes; so I hold these statistics close as reflections of our fading reality.

I can’t use any of my services because men in dresses take over and constantly talk about their penises.
When I speak up for myself and other women, I am the one who has to leave.

Before #MeToo, I always shared my stories in the hope that everyone could learn from them, and we could all grow as a society.
But then I learned that autogynephiles were masturbating to rape stories, and fantasising about being rape victims.

That is another reason I hate sharing this story; publicly sharing my suffering is just porn for pornsick men.
But guess what: I can’t share them privately with women, either, because we have nowhere to gather and hang out, without men!

So while you think “most people” won’t end up in jail, or playing elite sports, I’d like to remind you that ONE WOMAN’S RIGHTS matter more than one man’s sick desires.
Women are being raped in prison, by men. People like you let them in there, and don’t even record the data.

Women’s Rights are NOT a parlour game.

You wouldn’t be able to wear pants or have a job if it weren’t for our feminist ancestors who built the world you inherited, and then signed away for us with the flick of a pen.
I feel deeply betrayed and personally injured by your lack of foresight; men are a statistical nightmare. That is just a fact.
No man, however terribly he has failed at being a man by his own standards, is a woman. EVER.

Fix your mistake of removing the definition of SEX from the SEX Discrimination Act.
Repeal the 2013 SDA.
Women are Adult Human-Females, with XX Chromosomes, who produce Large Gametes. Even if they have fertility issues.
You can figure out a legal definition for the 0.018% of people born from women who have VSDs.

It’s too late, and we’re all traumatised, but whatever. I thought you should know.
Clearly there is nothing I can do about anything: I don’t exist.
Society doesn’t care if I am physically, emotionally, or psychologically harmed by man and his systems. Or erased from language, law, and existence entirely.

Sincerely,

A Ghost