You know, if the men in dresses and bearded ladies really wanted to convince us that they aren’t mentally ill, they could start by not being so batshit-crazy. And if they want to reassure us that they aren’t a threat to women, they might want to, y’know, stop attacking women so much.

I’m not just talking about some 13-stone brute in a dress, screaming ‘Kill TERFs’, or some autogynephilic weirdo sending pipe bombs to children’s authors.

No, I’m talking about literally attacking women, just for declining to believe that a man in a dress is a “woman”.

A woman in Melbourne, Australia was hospitalized and left with horrific injuries following a brutal attack from a trans activist over what she speculates was retaliation for her gender critical views.

On September 24, 2022, Ruby* and her partner were attending the Punks Pub Crawl, an annual barhopping event for those in the punk rock scene which has been held in Melbourne since 1982. Ruby, a bass guitarist in a local band, had been attending the crawl since she was a teenager. Though she was excited to return to her tradition following the loosening of Covid-19 restrictions, Ruby’s evening turned into a nightmare.

After posing for a group photo, Ruby was confronted and assaulted by a male.

Ruby describes her attacker as “male, but not obviously ‘trans’”. As she was with a group of individuals belonging to the punk rock community, she didn’t immediately believe he was attempting to present as the opposite sex, and simply thought he was donning classic punk attire.

“He just looked like a metal head with lipstick on, and I had never seen him before in my life,” she says.

After an initial push-and-shove, Ruby spoke up – but instead of confronting a man who had just assaulted a woman, others took her to task for her use of pronouns.

He claimed it was an accident and one of his friends backed him up. It was clearly no accident so I replied, ‘No, he just shoulder-barged me as hard as he could.’”

Ruby says the onlookers immediately seemed to take issue with the pronoun she had used for the man.

“I heard a few murmurs of ‘He?’ Like people were offended at my choice of pronoun,” she says.

When reality outdoes satire. The BFD.

At which point the tranny obviously felt empowered to beat the shit out of a woman.

Ruby says she was suddenly attacked from behind, with the man pushing her onto the concrete with tremendous force.

“I was wearing a heavy studded leather jacket so I went down hard and fast. I put my left arm out to break the fall with anything other than my head and the impact reverberated all up my arm, shattering my shoulder and breaking my arm at the joint.”

Ruby faces long-term physiotherapy and possible surgery. In the meantime, she managed to track down her assailant: a man who claims to be a woman, going by the name “Sarah Cadzow”. An individual who had apparently been stalking her social media through mutual acquaintances, and was apparently bent on “‘defending his community’ by attacking a middle aged woman from behind”.

In his youth, Cadzow had been associated with LGBTQ youth charity Minus18.

Minus18 has been frequently criticised by parents’ groups for pitching heavily sexualised material, including links to adult sites, at children. One of its founders was on child sex abuse charges at the time of his death.

Despite having provided Melbourne Police with two witness statements as well as the identity of her attacker, Ruby explains that it took months for Cadzow to finally be charged in a process that initially left her feeling abandoned […]

Ruby says she observed a definite “tone shift” when police learned her assailant was transgender.

“The delay in charging and the manner in which they went about it certainly felt to me like a reluctance to act. This was very serious violence and all I could think about during that waiting time was ‘Where are the consequences? What’s stopping him doing it again?”

Reduxx

Well, that’s the point, isn’t it? Learn your lesson, women: it’s a trans-woman’s world, now. You’re just “birthing persons” who need to be put in their place by men in dresses.

Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. I grew up in a generational-Labor-voting family. I kept the faith long after the political left had abandoned it. In the last decade...