Use the Word 'Man?' That Will Be $95,000, Please

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I didn't intend for this to happen, but two posts were on the theme of "the culture of death," and now my second two posts are on the theme of "being punished for saying the wrong word."

In the middle was a post about the man who became public enemy #1 for promoting free speech.

Serendipity, I guess. Or I was unconsciously primed to notice these things.

In any case, I just wrote about the criminal conviction of a woman who called a child rapist the "N-word," and now I get to write about the even more outrageous case of the women's rights activist in Australia who is being forced to pay two men who cosplay being women because she referred to them as men.

A women's rights campaigner in Australia found guilty of "vilifying" two trans-identified males has lost her appeal.@KirralieS has been ordered to pay them $95,000 for referring to them as "men" and condemning their participation in female sports.https://t.co/JuTCRnGRlB
— REDUXX (@reduxx) July 24, 2026

I at least understand why dropping the N-bomb on a guy is considered hurtful; explain to me how labeling a person a "man" is even insulting. I don't consider myself vilified if somebody calls me a man, because it is a neutral, descriptive word with no negative over- or undertones to speak of, unless you are an androphobe.

Still, in Australia, calling the wrong person with a penis a man is apparently so hurtful as to cause unbearable damage. (By the way, click on the link. Like most publications, they get paid by advertisers these days.)

The Supreme Court of New South Wales has ruled on appeal that a woman convicted of ‘vilification’ for referring to two trans-identified male athletes as men must pay a collective $95,000 to them, in addition to court costs, despite documented evidence of one player having injured at least one female athlete on the pitch.
The decision, handed down today, argues that by referring to the trans-identified males by their sex constitutes “serious contempt” and “severe ridicule,” and orders women’s rights campaigner Kirralie Smith and the publication Binary Australia to publish a statement provided by the court, to remain as a pinned and featured post on her social media for a period of three months.
In November 2023, Justin “Riley” Dennis and Nicholas “Stephanie” Blanch lodged criminal complaints against Smith for raising public awareness of their inclusion in women’s football. Smith, a spokeswoman with Binary Australia, a campaign group dedicated to advocating for single-sex sports in Australia, had been raising public awareness of their inclusion in women’s sports after learning of injuries sustained by female players.
The legal complaint accused Smith and Binary Australia of discrimination for a series of social media posts, made from January to March 2023, identifying the male players by using information and photographs that were obtained from public websites and posts made by Australian football associations.
For referring to them as men in social media posts, Smith has been ordered to hand over $55,000 to Blanch and another $40,000 to Dennis within the next 28 days.

It is now official in New South Wales: if you don't like being called a man, it is now considered "severe ridicule." I think I will go there and bait somebody into using the word "man" to cash in. Seriously, I don't like it one bit. Pay up.

As horrific as that is in itself, consider the secondary context: Kirralie Smith is a campaigner for a political cause, that of getting persons born with penises out of a sport where only people with wombs are supposed to compete. Not only is this a widely shared and perfectly normal thing to argue for, but the issue is political and contested, and the Supreme Court of New South Wales is telling her to shut up about it.

In addition to punitive damages, Smith and Binary Australia have been ordered to publish a public statement “on all social media pages and websites over which they have control,” stating that they violated the Non-Discrimination Act. The statement, according to the ruling, must be “designated as a feature post,” “pinned to the top of the Defendants’ profiles,” and “published prominently on the front page” of the Binary Australia website.
Labeled as Annexure A in court documents, the statement forces Smith and Binary Australia to publicly announce that, by opposing male athletes in women’s sports, they have “contravened section 38S of the Anti-Discrimination Act,” and have “incited hatreds towards, serious contempt for, or severe ridicule of” the two trans-identified male players in posts they made identifying them as men. If the announcement is not made public, Smith risks a $40,000 penalty.
Annexure A also declares that the court has imposed a state of censorship on them, having ordered them “not to repeat or continue the offending behavior” of “inciting hated” towards trans-identified males. The ruling appears to include referring to any trans-identified males as “men.”

Except...not quite. She actually has to become campaigners FOR the very issue she opposes, by telling everybody that her deeply held beliefs are wrong and illegal.

Needless to say, this is positively totalitarian.

And just another day in the Anglosphere, which is becoming dystopian for anybody who dissents from The Narrative™.

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