‘Mum, Why was There a Man at the Pool in a Wig and Women’s Bathers Today?’
An unexpected conversation with our kids about mentally ill men and a sick society.
“Mum, why was there a man at the pool in a wig and women’s bathers today?”
Our 8-year-old daughter innocently piped up as we were driving home from ballet last week. My wife had already been filling me in on the sight of a man in a blonde wig, parading around our local capital city swimming pool while my wife, in her role as a sports teacher, was seeking to help kids learn how to be safe in the water, and even better, swim!
I wonder how you’d answer if your child asked you this question. I decided to go theological and began to explain to her that sin isn’t just something that impacts our behaviour, but it can also impact our thinking. I carried on to try and explain to her that without Jesus, many people in our world get so deceived by sin they don’t even know that men aren’t women. As I was halfway through explaining the noetic effect of sin to my 8-year-old daughter, she interrupted me.
“Dad, that’s silly. You don’t need to be a Christian to know boys aren’t girls. That’s crazy it’s so simple.”
I paused… You know, darling, you’re right — it’s pretty basic, isn’t it? But our world is so confused, and people are so lost, that somehow, what makes no sense to you or me is actually happening: a man can wear a wig and women’s bathers and call himself a woman.
She sort of laughed. It was so ridiculously and obviously wrong, from the most basic of 8-year-old levels of understanding about what it means to be human and male and female, that she couldn’t make sense of what she had seen and what I’d tried to explain. It was too stupid to be explained. But that didn’t mean it wasn’t happening, and for the remainder of the week and a half of swimming lessons, I got more updates from my daughter (and wife) about our creepy man friend.
“Dad, today he was wearing a black wig. I wonder if he went to the hairdresser to get it cut and dyed, haha.”
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Of course, it might’ve stayed a funny story about how from the mouth of babes comes forth wisdom (Psalm 8:2), but our wigged man in female bathers was at the pool almost every day my daughters were there swimming. Not only that, some friends of mine who were free went down to watch the swimming lessons and keep an eye out for this bloke and saw him on multiple occasions, on multiple days, and he was seen several times availing himself of the members’ female change rooms.
When the issue was raised with staff, there was nothing that could be done. After all, the bloke with a wig was a woman, and to suggest otherwise, well… that’s bigotry. Worse, to attempt to stop this mentally unwell man from undressing near women is against the law here in Tasmania. For all I know, pointing it out online might make me guilty of discrimination or hate speech, because we live in the most crazy of worlds.
Shame on every single politician who’s let it come to this. Shame on every person who thinks “kindness” somehow means we must jeopardise safe public spaces. It wasn’t just in the changing rooms that this man’s cross-dressing parade at the pool caused issues. Many people were forced to politely avoid him, moving out of the spa when he entered, out of the lane, and guiding children to another location to avoid him looking at them. This is not transphobia — it’s an appropriate risk calculation.
If my 8-year-old daughter knows the truth about what’s going on here, why don’t our political leaders? Why won’t they do anything about making our public spaces safe? At this point, they and their “kindness” enablers are complicit in the erasure of safe female spaces and, in fact, safe public spaces more generally!
I think I’m with my daughter. It’s obvious how wrong this is. What makes no sense is why nobody is doing anything about it.
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Republished with thanks to Chris Bowditch.
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Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Yah said “My people perish for lack of knowledge” Israel refuses to walk in total submission to Yahweh and fell into idolatry, exalting other gods.
Today we are in a similar situation because we have failed as His people to walk in obedience, to do His words. We have divided ourselves in sectarianism. we have rebelled against hearing His voice, of protecting the true of His words and doing His words.
Samuel confronted Saul and told the first king of Israel ” Obedience is better than sacrifice. Rebellion is as witchcraft. Stubbornness is as the sin of idolatry.
Brothers and Sisters in Yeshua – this is where we are in 2025. The Gender blurring is only a tiny aspect that reveals the hold of the Enemy in our nation. We are in a full scale spiritual warfare against Ha Satan.
In 2015 unbeknown to Aussies the LNP signed Australia up to UN AGENDA 2030. This Agenda was designed to bring in one world government orchestrated by the UN. The premise was the world is facing issues no one nation can solve therefore what is needed is a collaborative of all nations with the UN’S multiple agencies driving the process. The end goal is one world government which is based on Humanism (mankind can solve its problems without God) Revelation 13 prophesies this. And 194 nations started down this track in 2015. In this time believers know that in Australia we have now endorsed laws that defy Yah’s laws – for example abortion, assisted dying, multiple genders who all have the same rights,gender mutilation, severe restriction on freedom of speech for citizens to say what Yah says, stances on natural resources that insist man must unilaterally take on things that severely impact on people, education of our youth in Humanism contrary to Yah’s words, censorship of dissenters voices speaking Yah’s words, ridiculous legal processes used to shut down believers voices, preparing Australia to be part of a one world economic block of 10 where our farmers are told what they can produce and sell under global regulations , our health policies will conform to WHO regulations such as the Pandemic Treaty, our sovereignty will be conformed to UN policies (for example we have now cursed Israel because we endorsed UN proposal for 2 state solution in Israel and endorsed a Hamas led Palestine. we are now a Goat nation.)
USA, Argentina, Hungary and Israel have now taken stands against the UN and its evil Agenda. Unfortunately for Australia not only have LNP, ALP and Greens sold us out to one world UN AGENDA they failed to explain to us what they bought into. The Agenda is based in Humanism. Christian nations should never ever be party to Humanism- a belief system that exalts man over Yah and Yeshua.
A vote for any of these parties is a vote for Australia to not remain a sovereign nation under Yahweh and Yeshua!
This federal election we must stand up for His kingdom against these godless globalists. The World Economic Forum is a key player. It boasts that We will own nothing but we will be happy. In January 2025 WEF told nations they must legislate laws to silence dissident voices who oppose the Agenda. Victoria seems to be first up with their Antivilification/social cohesion laws which are worse than the federal Human Rights laws. The UN is comprised of influential scientific elites and billionaire elites who believe they know what is best for the world. They have a history of silencing anyone who disagrees.
A hung parliament is the best Australia can hope for. Our system is skewed towards the major parties who are committed to globalism. Australia has smaller parties who do not support globalism. Family First has made a stand against some issues, One Nation Malcolm Roberts is an informed righteous politician (there are only a few of these in Australia), Gerard Rennick of the People’s Party has knows the true, the Citizen’s Party (denied coverage by Murdoch press) is so informed to stand against the globalists. at any rate to cast a meaningful vote for the Kingdom it is likely you will need to vote below the line. Make your vote count for the Kingdom.
If anyone feels strongly about this issue, I have included a link (below) for a petition to demand that our major political parties take this situation seriously. Neither Labor nor Liberal seems to have the intestinal fortitude to take up arms in defence of women – so we have to take the fight directly to them to demand change:
https://citizengo.org/en-au/node/15208?dr=5545538::7169b53d67d13b8142887df0159f88b6
Why do women and girls have no rights, no safe public spaces only men who want to play dress up and pretend that they are women have any rights
Marg P, you ask why do women and girls have no rights and no safe spaces? The answer is that the lunatics have taken over the asylum. The lunatics are nearly all of the elected members of the 4 major political parties. They actually believe that anyone can ‘choose’ their ‘gender.’ Sounds incredible I know, but that’s how we find ourselves in this terrible pickle. In every state and federally, that is the truth.
The real question I ask myself is: Why do so many mostly sensible people keep voting for the lunatics who control our destiny? The only answer I’ve come up with is apathy. Perhaps there is another… self interest in the form of greed, as at every election we are offered more inducements to vote for this or that party. The ‘goodies’ they offer have to be paid for by the taxpaying part of our population or with borrowings which we also have to pay for eventually.