Petition Reason
“The Sex Discrimination Act must clearly define ‘male’ and ‘female’ as biological sexes in order to provide legal certainty, consistency, and fairness in the application of sex-based rights, protections, data collection, sport, health care, privacy, and safeguarding laws. Clear definitions help ensure that legislation intended to protect women and men from discrimination can be applied consistently by courts, employers, schools, service providers, and government agencies, while reducing confusion, legal ambiguity, and conflict between competing rights and interests.”Petition Request
We therefore ask the House to introduce legislation to amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) to define ‘male’ and ‘female’ according to biological sex, and to ensure that sex-based rights, protections, and provisions are applied consistently across Commonwealth law.”