The full article was published in The Australian. It’s behind a paywall, but you can read it if you follow the link from the VWG page or read the comments.
Ms Rayner is a veteran feminist lawyer and high profile human rights activist, so this is coming from a woman with a well-defined public role.
Victorian women might also be interested in a seminar on the future of sex-based rights, being held by the VWG in August 8.
You can register via their FB page.
"New Victorian sex law a gender headache
A law put up by Victoria’s Andrews government could expose women offering intimate services such as pubic waxing or underwear fitting to discrimination complaints if they reject trans women customers who still have penises, veteran human rights lawyer Moira Rayner has warned.
The new law would allow self-declared trans women, who possess a penis and have not undergone any sex-reassignment treatment, to change the sex that appears on their birth certificate, giving them access as women to equal opportunity protection.
Ms Rayner, a former state and federal human rights commissioner, said that, if enacted, the legislation could allow a Down Under version of Canada’s Jessica Yaniv case, in which a trans woman has lodged anti-discrimination complaints against 16 beauticians who did not want to handle her penis and testicles in order to grant her wish for a brazilian wax.”