A bias towards gender ideology has distracted from the fight for rights afforded to same-sex attracted communities, LGB International said.
The movement is driven largely by a belief that those who are attracted to the same sex are being “coerced” into being attracted to those of a sex biologically opposite, namely transgender men and women, LGB Alliance Australia spokesman Michael David said.
Last year, Australia’s Federal Court heard a discrimination dispute between transgender woman Roxanne Tickle and social media platform Giggle for Girls, the latter described as a “women-only safe space”.
Giggle app founder Sally Grover had argued Ms Tickle was an adult male and chose to describe her according to her sex at birth, as grounds for removal from the platform.
The Lesbian Action Group was granted intervener status in the case, arguing that biological women should have the right to their own spaces and that because of its special interest in creating female-only spaces and that parliament could not have intended that men would attend lesbian parties when it introduced changes to the Sex Discrimination Act.
Ms Grover ultimately lost the case, with the court determining Ms Tickle had been “indirectly discriminated” against under the Sex Discrimination Act. An appeal has been heard, but no decision has yet been announced.
Decisions such as these undermined the rights of same-sex attracted communities, whose “rights are predicated in sex”, Mr David said.
“For too long, lesbian, gay and bisexual people have been sidelined by legacy organisations who no longer represent us,” Mr David said.
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