The world was recently stunned to hear a US Supreme Court nominee tell the Senate what ‘progress’ it was to see a woman selected for the great post – and then with her next breath expressed confusion as to what a woman was… Her astounding reply that she ‘didn’t know because she wasn’t a biologist’ says much about what the far-fringe has been promoting in the public forum for decades.

It’s little surprise this absurdity has finally arrived in Australia, landing in the words of an esteemed federal judge.

There have been incessant attempts to replace common sense with the bedlam of...