In 2013, Australia removed the biological definitions of “male” and “female” from the Sex Discrimination Act. Most Australians had no idea this change was happening, yet it has fundamentally reshaped how sex and gender are treated in Australian law and public life.
The consequences have been serious and far-reaching. Women’s sport is losing fairness and integrity. Women’s spaces and protections are becoming harder to defend. Healthcare language and data are being distorted to accommodate ideology over biological reality. Children are increasingly being taught confusing ideas about sex and gender in schools, while parents who raise concerns are often dismissed or silenced. Across society, common sense has been replaced with policies that deny the reality that men and women are biologically different.
This petition calls on the Australian Government to restore the biological definitions of male and female in Australian law. Because sex is real. The differences between men and women matter. And laws built on ideology instead of truth are harming women, children, and the foundations of common sense itself.
Petition Text
To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives,
We, the undersigned, call on the Australian Government to restore the biological definitions of ‘male’ and ‘female’ in the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.
In 2013, the biological definitions of sex were removed from the Act. Since then, laws and policies across Australia have increasingly moved away from biological reality, with serious consequences for women, children, families, and the broader community.
Women’s sport is losing fairness. Women’s spaces and protections are becoming harder to uphold. Schools are promoting contested gender ideology to children. Healthcare language and data are being distorted. Australians are increasingly being pressured to deny the biological reality that men and women are different.
Sex is biological reality. The differences between men and women matter and must be recognised in law.
We therefore call on the Australian Government to restore the biological definitions of male and female in the Sex Discrimination Act and uphold sex-based rights and protections in Australian law.
