Australian documentary: Who decides?

You're right, ashley lamont is also a man: https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/finding-yourself-celebrating-trans-day-of-visibility-at-anu

So 2 awards meant for women went to men.

Gotcha, I hadn't scrolled down far enough. Canva and Attlassian. Shabby. Wonder if they are members of WIT. Such poor form.

Yup. So 2 awards for women go to men.

The award for the "rising star of 2026", which is featured right before Claire Kent, also went to another man, Ashley Lamont.

The person who won for software engineering excellence https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairekent/#overlayprofile-image-modal

It is pretty obvious when you click on the photos to see who is a woman and isnt

I think the 19th.

Some of us fought hard to be software engineers in a very male world. Now men id’ing as women get awards that should have gone to natal women.

I’m retired, so I haven’t missed out personally. But younger women have. And who is now influencing the future of software? Women deserve their fair share of that.

It’s Clark (sorry, Claire) Kent. Obviously we’re not supposed to notice he’s a man. Yet another bloke taking something from a woman…..

Is that the first person on the list?

The award for female software engineer of the year yesterday went to a man. https://womenindigital.org/women-in-digital-awards/women-in-digital-awards-2026-winners/

The world has gone crazy, or at least Australia has.

I watched this yesterday, a good introduction for people who have been largely unaware of what's been happening. I felt there was a missed opportunity for some statistics to really drive some points home about how widespread it is but I really admire those who turned up to speak on this film and it really hope it gains some correspondence, or could certainly open some eyes. Worth a watch. Great show.

Thanks.

I didn't expect that there would be.

It is just flinging shit at a wall and hoping something sticks types of accusations to deter people from watching something that someone doesn't agree with.

Fuck any intention of watching something and critiquing it with integrity or simply letting others watch it so they can decide for themselves. No. It is the instant derision and denouncement. When posters show them who they really are , we have to accept they are who they show us.

Spreading misinformation in this way is standard activist behaviour.

I’ve done some very little looking to find the film is produced by a respected Australian showrunner and producer, Tony Ayres. His Wikipedia entry says he’s openly gay and had a traumatic childhood. Maybe there’s one, but I couldn’t find a connection between him and Murdoch with a cursory look.

I actually really want to know why Fairgo doesn’t think lesbians should have dating apps.

Oh sweet, it's out! I'm bookmarking to watch later on. The stream is available as a replay.

Need to edit my words about need: I said at the end 'needs and desires of a small group of men'. I should have said perceived needs rather than needs. Nobody needs to have their body bits removed as a form of 'meat lego gnosticism' as Mary Harrington so memorably put it.

Please have a read of
https://spectator.com/article/the-document-that-reveals-the-remarkable-tactics-of-trans-lobbyists/
Which is a good explanation of how Gender Identity Ideology has made such strides. Also you could watch the Repath Series on Beyond Gender with Stella O'Malley, that is excellent for the history of the trans movement.
Have a look at the Athena Forum website to get a European picture. There are people from all sorts of backgrounds and political perspectives that are deeply concerned about this.
I don't think anyone, if they read what I have read in the last few months, (Helen Joyce's book Trans and Abigail Shrier's book Irreversible Damage and Pornocracy by Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel) or they listened to or watched Gender A Wider Lens or listened to Julie Bindle's podcast Julie in Genderland could not think that there is a pressing need to unravel Gender Identity Ideology in policies and law and to stop giving children powerful drugs to change their growing bodies. This is an oppressive and dangerous ideology. It has perversely sold the concept of the 'trans child' and has cruelly unravelled the rights of women and children to provide for the needs and desires of a small group of men.

I'm watching now - registered but I think that wasn't necessary, there's just a link at https://whodecidesfilm.com/ . Not sure what will happen after the premiere though.

Does anyone know when or where or how this is airing yet? I registered - not sure if ive recieved/missed an email?

Understanding the reality ( based on a millennia of experience around the facts of sex) seems to be a rather looming existential threat to the claims of trans activists, though, doesn't it?

The tide has already turned......and now it is reaching Australia.
It was the grassroots campaign in nasty, old, regressive, colonialist Britain that first managed to restore some semblance of reason and common sense and halt the insanity in its tracks.

Yes, but in Britain the initial resistance movement actually managed to prevent key measures being enacted in parliament and then brought into law in the first place ( Gender Self ID etc). It is always easier not to implement bad law than it is to un-do it.

The reality of biological sex is " colonialist, victorian clap-trap".

Hope you're right, couldn't get much worse

Thank you, KTS. You are an absolute heroine to dig through all this.

Frankly, I don't understand half of what those Australian regulations mean. Do they make it so obscure deliberately?

@JellySaurus from F4D4
(13) For the purposes of this part, an all gender sanitary facility comprises 1 closet pan and 1 washbasin within the same
compartment

Still not sure about exits/entrances around unisex toilets.

If anyone is upset by ‘othering’ don’t read on:
Explanatory Information
All gender facilities provided under F4D4(12) are for the use of females, besides others.

There is also:
Not less than one washbasin must be provided where closet pans or urinals are provided.
Half a washbasin is not allowed.

And you be crossing your legs if your the third female to work in an all male workplace:
If the majority of employees are of one sex, not more than 2 employees of the other sex may share toilet facilities if the facilities are separated by means of walls, partitions and doors to afford privacy.

Even I am bored now. But in all honesty in shows how daft this is. If woman/man female/male have no biological meaning then designs, regulations, legislation have no meaning.