On Monday, the Administrative Review Tribunal (formerly the Administrative Appeals Tribunal) upheld the Australian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) 2023 decision to deny the Lesbian Action Group (LAG) an exemption under the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA) to exclude ‘transgender lesbians’ from its public events.
At this point, the AHRC should just be renamed the Australian Transgender Rights Commission, or the Australian Men’s Rights Commission. The SDA has been a mess since the 2013 amendments introducing protections for ‘gender identity’ and removing the biological definitions of man and woman, which have led to the erosion of women’s sex-based rights. However, the AHRC does not even attempt to interpret the law in favour of the rights of women, or in this particular case ‘lesbians born female’ (as if there are any other kind), while doing all it can to elevate the ‘rights’ of men who say they’re women.
Particularly appalling was the evidence of AHRC expert Dr Elena Jeffreys against the exemption, which compared lesbian feminists who reject the notion that men can be women to ‘nazi fascists’. I’m not sure how such comments were even relevant to the case, let alone why they were included in the judgment, or why they were essentially left unchallenged by the Tribunal.
It’s absurdities like this decision, that only reaffirm the lunacy that gender ideology is wreaking on women, government, our legal system and more, as well as the need to restore the sex-based rights of women and girls in Australian laws and policies.
Source: Tribunal rules lesbians must include men who identify as lesbians at public events