Restoring Common Sense: Protecting Biological Women’s Rights
Watch my speech in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsQwoZ8_470
A society that refuses to define what a woman is will ultimately find itself unable to protect one. In 2013, the biological definitions of man and woman were deleted from federal statutes, replacing physical facts with subjective feelings. This year, the Full Federal Court's landmark ruling in the Giggle v Tickle appeal confirmed the inevitable consequence under Australian law: gender is now legally fluid, legally changeable, and legally meaningless.
True fairness means recognizing that different groups have different needs. Protecting biological women does not require the mistreatment or exclusion of anyone else, but the moment the law refuses to maintain the distinction between a male body and a female body, sex-based protections cease to exist.
Here is why I am backing the push to return common sense to our laws:
Protecting Safe Spaces: If a domestic violence shelter or a communal changing room cannot draw an ironclad line at biological sex, then the hard-fought safety and privacy of women is gone.
Restoring Legal Reality: We must reinstate clear, scientific definitions that reflect the binary of human biology, replacing vague phrasing with accurate terminology.
Securing Women-Only Sports and Services: Our laws need a definitive balancing clause that establishes a statutory protection for women-only spaces, services, and sports against frivolous lawsuits.
The Australian people never voted to change the definition of man and woman, and these protections were dismantled without the consent of the quiet majority. The Coalition will not stand by and watch women's rights be systematically compromised on the altar of political correctness. It is time for the law to anchor itself back in reality and restore the protections Australian women deserve.
Watch my speech in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsQwoZ8_470