It only took several years of pain and trials but the Leader of the Opposition, Angus Taylor, has finally committed the Coalition to protecting women’s sex based rights.

Sall Grover lost her appeal to the federal court and was penalised for excluding a man from her female only app Giggle for girls.

The federal court found Sall guilty of direct discrimination, with three judges ruling a man can be a woman if he says he is a woman. Afterwards, Taylor posted the following on his Facebook page:

Yesterday the Full Federal Court confirmed that Australian law does not properly protect single sex spaces for women and girls. Most Australians would find that hard to believe. A coalition government I lead will fix this.   We will amend the Sex Discrimination Act to ensure that women and girls (and men and boys) have protections based on biological sex.

We will define biological sex in the Act. Male or female. The sex you are born. And we will protect single-sex spaces across Australian life.

This is not radical. It is common sense.

Let me be clear about what this is not. This is not about targeting transgender Australians. Every protection they currently have remains. We are not removing a single protection from anyone. But we are recognising something that should never have been in doubt: biological sex is real, it matters, and women and girls deserve spaces where it is respected.

This will be a first-term priority.

The Prime Minister now has a simple question to answer. Does he believe women and girls deserve protections based on biological sex?

Several other Coalition members also stated they support sex-based protections in law. One Nation and the Libertarians have always held this view.

Since 2018, as the spokeswoman for Binary, I have been warning of the dire consequences of gender identity protections in law and the erasure of women’s sex based rights. The Coalition was in government for four of those years.

Not one minister for women, either federal or state, Labor or Liberal has been able to answer the simple question “what is a woman?” since we began asking in 2019.

I have also spent the past three years in court battling for women’s sport to be free of male participation. I and several other Australians have been forced to endure slurs, gaslighting, threats and legal action because we have exposed the fact that the Sex Discrimination Act has no protections for sex.

I am glad that Angus Taylor and others have finally realised this is an issue worthy of comment and action. 

Too many of us have paid a steep price for defending reality and evidence-based science. I sincerely hope politicians take this as a wake up call to write reality into law and stop protecting the lie men can be women or humans can change sex.

It may prove too late for Sall Grover and I, but it must be done for the sake of our daughters.