This is ‘Raewyn’, formally Bob, Connell who ‘transitioned’ in his 60s. His former wife (who he now refers to as his partner), Pam Benton, who died in the 1990s, was an actual women’s activist and writer. She helped develop Equal Opportunity policy machinery in New South Wales. Wonder what she would have made of his appropriation of womanhood?
According to the Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in 20th Century Australia (WTF is he doing in there anyway?), “Raewyn made public her gender identity after the death, in 1997 from cancer, of Pam Benton, her talented, much loved, highly supportive partner and the mother of their daughter. Making public her female identity occurred over time, involved some medical intervention with the final, formal declaration made in 2006, when she officially changed her name, from RW to Raewyn (RW) Connell.” How
bleeping dare he say that he’s a woman.
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