In 2016, Ruth Barrett published Female Erasure, a collection of essays by women speaking out against gender identity politics with the aim of exposing the harmful effects of this novel belief system on the lives of women and children. In a prologue to the book, Barret assumes a male voice to illustrate how male appropriation of womanhood works first to silence and ultimately to erase women:

A recent article in the Herald Sun (“Schools opt for gender neutral toilets, language”) has praised the renewed efforts of the Victorian government to erase male/female difference in schools.