Kirralie Smith responds ‘I am not an “anti-trans” activist’

Kirralie Smith

‘I was sincerely shocked and dismayed by John Sandeman’s article about me on his website The Other Cheek. Touting an outing: my difficulty with Kirralie Smith – THE OTHER CHEEK

I had never heard of him before a friend brought this to my attention. John has never reached out to me nor sought comment but rather jumped immediately into judging my actions without knowing the full story.

I am not an “anti-trans” activist. I am a pro-woman and pro-child safeguarding, registered third party political campaigner and spokeswoman for Binary. I am a wife, mother of three, and I have fostered 5 children in total with my husband Greg. I also have a Bachelor of Theology and Diploma of Ministry and love Jesus with all my heart, mind, soul and strength.

I believe Jesus whole-heartedly when he says He is the Truth. Truth is not an idea, He is a person. And I believe the Bible which contains many, many verses about the fate of liars and anyone who deceives little children.

John suggested in the article that because he knew a trans identified person “it would be cruel to force them to go to a workplace toilet for their natal gender”. 

I suggest it is cruel to force others to accept an opposite sex person in their bathroom. Women don’t want males in their private sex-specific spaces. I assume males do not want women in theirs either, at least decent godly men wouldn’t.

What is even more cruel is to lie and deceive a person by agreeing their appropriation of opposite sex stereotypes makes them the opposite sex. Encouraging an unhealthy view of themselves that can never become reality is the ultimate unkindness.

It is immensely cruel and unkind to agree with a vulnerable person that they were born in the wrong body. Would John affirm a person suffering anorexia, another kind of body dysphoria? I would hope not!

What is kind is to help the vulnerable gender distressed person accept reality and accept they are not a mistake, that they are deeply and wholly loved by God in the body He gave them.

John wrote, “I am sadly aware that there are some conservative activists who, however right the cause they campaign for, engage in behaviour that falls below the standard of treating others with respect, which we Christians are called to uphold.”

Actually, Christians are called to follow Jesus – and He said of Himself He is the way, the truth and the life. We are never called to compromise the truth for the sake of someone else’s feelings. 

Jesus was not known for being “respectful” but truthful. He called religious hypocrites dreadful names and exposed their wicked ways. Many times people picked up stones to stone him. An angry mob hated him so much they had a violent murderer released so they could crucify LOVE and TRUTH himself. 

Love does not lie or deceive. Gender ideology is built 100% on lies and deception. No human can change sex, and God didn’t make a mistake by placing someone in the wrong body.

There are many factual and legal issues with all of my cases that are incorrect and that is why I am appealing the decisions. Things that never happened are reported as fact, but they are not. And if people are happy to lie about something as fundamental as a man being a woman, I suspect we can confidently assume they will also lie about other things. So while John has the luxury of sprouting his opinion about me, I do not enjoy the same freedom due to court proceedings that not only penalise free speech, but truth speech.

John claimed I outed these players when I did no such thing. I took information from Football NSW and a football club that “outed” them. They had already posted the information in the public domain; I simply reposted it.

John wrote, “I describe the wide dissemination of the identity of this play as ‘outing’ the player, while acknowledging they may have been ‘out’ already to some friends and family.” 

These players were out for the whole world to see actually. God has given humans the innate ability to correctly sex a stranger just by looking at them. In terms of them playing in women’s divisions, the football clubs outed them, not me.

I did repeatedly ask reasonable questions such as ‘why are males in female sport?’ and ‘what is the point of having male and female divisions in the first place?’ and used the screenshots from the public domain to prove it is an issue in Australia. 

Overseas we had seen images of other male athletes dominating women’s sport, stealing prizes and even punching them in the head. Seeing the images and reading their names left no doubt they had an unfair advantage and did not belong in women’s sport. Many Australians were unaware this is also happening here.

It is so bizarre that many think they are males at elite levels and ought to be excluded from female divisions, but that they are somehow woman-enough to take advantage of loopholes at grass roots levels. The girls who are gaslit into playing against them and who are threatened with legal action if they don’t feel ignored and at risk.

I approached my advocacy for female athletes in Biblical order. 

First, I approached the clubs privately but was palmed off to regional managers. I was insulted and spoken to rudely and told that if blokes want to register in the female competitions that would be fine as long as they pay their fees. No compassion for women what-so-ever.

Next, I tried to engage policy makers privately at state and then federal levels. They refused to engage so I took it public after hearing from many families about their own frustrations with the organisations. They were too fearful of the legal threats these officials made against them so, as a third-party political campaigner I took up policy debate – one sided as it was.  As I said, I took information from the public domain – as journalists, lobbyists, podcasters and the public do everyday, and reposted it with comment.

And let me remind you, if males were women, then I would never have had to campaign in the first place.

The campaigns were never aimed at the individual players. It was all directed at football clubs and organisations, as well as the media. Female athletes, parents and even coaches have no ability to object without being gaslit into accepting males in female divisions. Self-exclusion was their only option. As a woman and a mother, I find that completely unacceptable.

Why do males get to erase my boundaries and access female sport, bathrooms and other spaces? I am sure the Bible calls men to man up and protect women because, according to our physiology, we are more vulnerable.

John, where is your compassion, kindness and love for the women who have had their boundaries erased, or have had to self-exclude, risk injury, lose places and awards to make trans identified males feel comfortable and included? 

No one is saying these males cannot compete, we are simply lobbying for them to compete in their own biological category or in their own trans category. 

Do you know how disempowering and vulnerable it is to a be a woman, being told by men, that we are unchristian and uncaring, for wanting to protect our daughters and participate in public life?

John also wrote, “A second alleged example of Smith’s conduct is included in the soccer player’s application at a lower court stage. “On 27 February 2023, the Respondent came to ….. where the Appellant plays soccer, with a group of men impersonating transgender women. The Respondent filmed the proceedings in which the impersonators played soccer. One of them ripped a …. Football Club shirt off a teenage girl wearing the impersonating clothing.”

The District Court did not make a finding on the truth of this incident. But possible support for the incident happening is provided in a tweet by Smith a few days earlier: “calling for men on the [region] to get in contact with her to help with ‘the bloke playing on the women’s team in [town].’”

The District Court did not make a finding on the truth of this incident because it didn’t happen as described and there was NO evidence it did. Yet I have been labelled violent for something that was suggested and not backed by evidence.

As for the tweet, the second part was conveniently left off. The call was for men to register in female teams to make a mockery of the policy – not target any individual. It was to make a statement and to not even take the field but rather expose the lunacy of the policy. No individual was mentioned. No individual was targeted. This was about policy, not a player.

John, your assumptions hurt and pervert the truth. You could have approached me before writing the article, which is a Biblical principle, but instead you chose to print and believe falsehoods.

I encourage anyone who wants the honest story to reach out to me in good faith and I will do my best to respond.

Kirralie Smith can be contacted at info@binary.org.au