Hey Fedi Friends , I need your help!

[jw@social.lol]

Hey Fedi Friends , I need your help!

The ABC’s (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) latest reporting on the Lesbian Action Group’s federal court bid to exclude transgender women from events, is bigoted, ignorant and one sided.

So despite this direct legal challenge to the rights of trans women, the ABC:

⁃ Failed to interview or even get perspectives from transgender people or advocacy groups.
⁃ Literally uncritically platformed "gender critical" retoric, the article quotes exclusionary and transphobic language calling transgender women “biological males” without criticism or challenge.
⁃ Claimed this is a "clash of rights” when in reality it's a transphobic exclusionary group trying to challenge human rights as defined by the federal Sex Discrimination Act.

Trans women are women. Trans lesbians are lesbians. Trans rights are human rights.

We need to send a message to the ABC that this is unacceptable! Please help by lodging a complaint! (anyone can) ️

#trans #transgender #australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-23/lesbian-group-transgender-exemption-federal-court/106375606

[jw@social.lol]

Here's how you can help!

Even if you're not an Australian resident, you can file a formal complaint with the ABC. If enough of us complain that platforming transphobia is unacceptable they will have no choice but to retract or edit the article and change their practices on uncritically reporting "gender critical" rhetoric. Here's a template that you can copy and paste:

I am writing to complain about the article “Lesbian group takes fight to Federal Court in bid to exclude transgender women from events” published on the 23 of February 2026. The report fails to meet ABC’s principles for balance and impartiality as it doesn't include a perspective from a transgender person or advocacy organisation. The article uncritically quotes exclusionary and transphobic language effectively providing a platform for the Lesbian Action Group and normalises transphobic rhetoric. Considering the federal court bid affects the rights of transgender people and the wider LGBTQ+ community not including the perspective of the people who are the primary subjects of this legal discrimination is a severe lapse of ABC standards. (ABC Editorial Standards 4.2 specifically).

Here’s the link to the ABC’s complaint form:

https://www.abc.net.au/contact/complain.htm

1️⃣ Select the area the complaint relates to as: ABC website

2️⃣ Select the ABC website as: ABC NEWS

3️⃣ Select the issue as: Bias

4️⃣ Enter the URL as: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-23/lesbian-group-transgender-exemption-federal-court/106375606

5️⃣ Enter the provided template and feel free to tweak as you like.

Thank you in advance to anyone that submits a complaint

#trans #transgender #australia

[silk_flame@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jw I don't understand how any letter in the alphabet community would want to exclude any other letter.

[ephesossh@mastodon.online]

@jw hey, US resident here, would contributions from here help? I'm happy to jump on the form but I don't wanna muddy the waters if it would hurt y'all's case.

[jw@social.lol]

@ephesossh Yeah you can make a complaint as someone outside of Australia, because it’s on the ABC’s website it’s available globally. You’ll just need to select that you’re outside of Australia in the complaint form. It would definitely help

[jw@social.lol]

@futzle Thank you that’s a good point too about female only gym exclusion. Since they keep updating it, I hope our complaints are having an effect. I also got assigned a C-reference so that’s good!

They released another article about the same federal court bid this morning, which unfortunately has similar issues though…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-24/trans-women-ban-could-undermine-dignity-court-hears/106379566

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@jw I sent a complaint! And everyone else should too! Especially if you are Australian

[jw@social.lol]

@Em0nM4stodon Thank you Em, that means a lot! Everyone should if they have a second, it’s easy to submit a complaint and it doesn’t require any personal info.