On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Women's Forum Australia launched a national campaign to restore women's sex-based rights in law and policy across Australia.
The campaign, which targets both federal and state jurisdictions, calls on legislators and leaders to protect women and girls whose rights and protections are being eroded by laws and policies that promote gender ideology and undermine biological reality, such as the 2013 amendments to the federal Sex Discrimination Act or sex self-ID laws, which have now been rolled out across every state and territory in Australia. The campaign also calls for common-sense policies such as restoring single-sex sports, bathrooms and changerooms, prisons and shelters.
"Laws and policies that allow men to identify as women threaten safety, privacy, dignity and fairness for women and girls, and are utterly incompatible with efforts to end violence against them," said Women’s Forum Australia CEO Rachael Wong.
There has been widespread reporting on the failures of these laws and policies, which have led to female athletes being injured or put at risk of injury by trans-identifying male athletes, female students being forced to share school dormitories with males, girls being too scared to use bathrooms at school due to the implementation of ‘gender-neutral’ toilets or trans-identifying boys using the girls’ toilets, bullying and intimidation of female students by trans-identifying male teachers, male sexual predators being housed with female prisoners, and women being dragged to court and before tribunals for affirming women’s sex-based rights and biological reality.
“These laws and policies are being weaponised by activists to silence opponents,” said Ms Wong.
"The reality is, that men who identify as women, now have more rights and protections than actual women. Enough is enough.”
Women's Forum Australia encourages the public to support the campaign by visiting womensforumaustralia.org/XX to sign the petition and subscribe for updates and further actions.
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