Protect Sex Based Rights in Law

“The hard-won rights women fought for so that we could fully and equally participate in public life over the course of the last 100 years are lost.

We no longer have the right to female-only public toilets, change rooms and refuges, and all those so-called affirmative action measures like gender quotas, scholarships and grants that were supposed to be just for women are lost now too.

Female-only sports leagues, which gave so many young women, me included, access to fair and fun sporting competition are now also lost.

Females have lost the right – the basic right – to associate exclusively with each other. We are not allowed to have female-only gyms, and even lesbians are not allowed to have female-only dating apps.

Violent male sexual offenders are housed with vulnerable female prisoners.

Male teachers can demand the right to supervise female students in their changerooms on swimming carnival day.

Why has this happened? It’s because, Governments all around the world, have betrayed women and girls. They took our sex-based rights, and they gave them away to men… We did not consent to having our rights and our identity taken away from us in law. We did not consent to the removal of all the sex-based safeguards for women and girls. That was not the deal. And despite all the abuse and the violence and the smears that are just lashed upon every single woman that tries to say something about it, we are not going to be silenced. We will speak, we will get organised and we will absolutely get those rights back.”

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