MEDIA RELEASE
Biological males are competing against female athletes and accessing women-only spaces across Victoria. The major parties won’t say it. Jane Foreman will — and Family First will legislate it.
Somewhere in Victoria right now, a young woman who has trained for years is lining up against a biological male in a sporting competition. She knows it is unfair. Her coach knows it is unfair. The crowd knows it is unfair. But the Allan government has ensured that saying so out loud carries legal risk, and the major parties — Labor, Liberal, and Greens alike — have decided that activist pressure matters more than fairness for women and girls.
“Family First will say what the major parties won’t: women’s sport is for women. Full stop.”
The Allan government’s embrace of gender ideology has had direct, measurable consequences for Victorian women. The removal of biological definitions of male and female from state law has created legal uncertainty around single-sex sporting categories, women’s refuges, prisons, and health services. Sports clubs that attempt to protect female-only categories face anti-discrimination complaints. The word ‘woman’ has been quietly drained of its meaning in Victorian law.
Victoria removed biological definitions of male and female from state law. Not one major party has committed to restoring them
Family First’s Jane Foreman will:
· restore biological definitions of male and female in Victorian law,
· introduce legislative protection for female-only sporting categories, and
· ensure iron-clad protection for women’s single-sex spaces including refuges, prisons, and health services.
“Women fought for decades to earn their place on the sporting field, in the workforce, and in our laws. The Allan government is erasing everything they won in the name of an ideology that most Victorians quietly reject but are afraid to challenge. Family First is not afraid.”
“I think about the young girls in our communities — the ones training three nights a week, getting up at 5am for swim meets, giving everything to their sport. They deserve to know that their government sees them, values them, and will protect their right to compete fairly. Right now, the Allan government is failing them. Family First won’t.”
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