Save women’s sport bill Australia

[ChakaFridaMendips]

Senator Claire Chandler has submitted a bill to allow sporting organisations to keep providing single sex sports.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10537495/Scott-Morrison-BACKS-push-ban-transgender-women-playing-female-sport-Australia.html

www.senatorchandler.com.au/save_women_s_sport_bill_to_be_introduced

www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/scott-morrison-backs-liberal-senator-claire-chandlers-save-womens-sport-bill/news-story/7c5229d5371de7bdc2994ff68e58d547%3famp

I thought actually they could still provide single sex sports in Australia but they were just cowardly - maybe this is just to try to prevent them being sued?

Also reported in the Guardian.
Spoiler- they don't like it.
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/22/scott-morrison-backs-bill-that-allows-exclusion-of-transgender-people-from-single-sex-sports

Thank you for the links.

They’re trying to conflate it with the utter car crash that was the recent Religious discrimination bill (that even the religious people didn’t particularly seem to back). It’s a completely different issue.

Fully support Senator Chandler. She’s awesome.

Typical Guardian 🙄. Trans people won’t be excluded from single sex sports under this proposed Bill, just from competing in the opposite sex category within single sex sports. You know, like we’ve always done.

The regressive blind spot in this is mind boggling.

I saw a long Twitter thread under some US journalist insisting that Lia Thomas wasn't a cheat (technically), with lots of fairly reasonable debate.

But it never seemed to occur to anyone there on either side of the debate that there's absolutely nothing stopping Lia competing with all the other males. The possibility wasn't even acknowledged in the way the other arguments were directed, let alone addressed directly.

It's as if it was all a terrible conundrum between letting Thomas compete with the women for his sake, and making Thomas give up swimming for the sake of the women.

(There also seemed to be a blackout on the "transman" mysteriously able to compete with their own sex.)

It’s almost like men aren’t prepared to accept gender non confirming men isn’t it