\u200bA landmark Federal Court ruling that the exclusion of a transgender woman from a female-only app constituted unlawful gender identity discrimination is upheld on appeal.<\/p>\n
In a statement posted to social media today, Mr Taylor said the outcome “confirmed that Australian law does not properly protect single sex spaces for women and girls”.<\/p>\n
“A Coalition government I lead will fix this. We will amend the Sex Discrimination Act to ensure that women and girls (and men and boys) have protections based on biological sex,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We will define biological sex in the Act. Male or female. The sex you are born. And we will protect single-sex spaces across Australian life.”<\/p>\n
The opposition leader described the proposal as \u201ccommon sense\u201d and denied the pledge is about targeting transgender Australians.<\/p>\n
“Every protection they currently have remains. We are not removing a single protection from anyone.”<\/p>\n
Mr Taylor concluded his post with a “simple question” directed at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.<\/p>\n
“Does he believe women and girls deserve protections based on biological sex?”<\/p>\n
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Roxanne Tickle was awarded $20,000 in damages after being excluded from the Giggle for Girls app. (AAP Image: Bianca De Marchi)<\/p>\n
A federal government spokesperson said it was “aware of the decision made by the Federal Court”.<\/p>\n
“The government believes all people are entitled to respect, dignity, and the opportunity to participate in society, free from discrimination,” the spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Four days after a reforming budget \u2026 the Liberals are choosing to demonise migrants and focus on this matter.”<\/p>\n
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The Giggle for Girls app was marketed as a platform exclusively for women to share experiences. (AAP)<\/p>\n
National advocacy group Equality Australia described yesterday\u2019s court outcome as a “significant win for equality\u00a0and\u00a0fairness”.<\/p>\n
“This ruling affirms that all women deserve to live free from discrimination, without being judged on appearance, presentation or perceptions,” Equality Australia Legal Director Heather Corkhill said in a statement yesterday.<\/p>\n
Ms Corkhill also reflected that the outcome reinforces that anti-discrimination laws are intended to protect everyone, particularly groups such as trans women.<\/p>\n
“All of us have a stake in making sure those protections remain strong and effective,” she said.<\/p>\n
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The CEO of the female-only app Giggle for Girls, Sall Grover. (ABC News: ABC News: Liam Patrick)<\/p>\n
Nationals leader backs opposition leader\u2019s vow \u00a0<\/p>\n
Nationals leader Matt Canavan has backed his Coalition partner’s call, describing the changes to the Sex Discrimination Act as “urgently needed”.<\/p>\n
Last year Senator Canavan and Liberal senator Alex Antic introduced a private member’s bill that sought to remove references to “gender identity” in the act, and insert definitions of \u201cman\u201d and \u201cwoman\u201d. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The senators’ bill ultimately failed, but Senator Canavan has said Nationals MP Alison Penfold “will introduce a similar bill to the House soon”.<\/p>\n
It is understood this is the first time that Senator Canavan has called for the Sex Discrimination Act to be changed since he was elected leader of the Nationals in March. \u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2013, the Gillard Labor government passed significant amendments to the act, making it illegal to discriminate on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has vowed to amend the Sex Discrimination Act, after the Federal Court upheld a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":800308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[138285,4740,326059,14544,326058,236834,50,301926],"class_list":["post-800307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-angus-taylor","tag-australia","tag-equality-australia","tag-gender-identity","tag-giggle-for-girls","tag-matt-canavan","tag-news","tag-sex-discrimination-act"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116583653994372789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}