The policy will restore sex-based rights and child protection

The Libertarians have released their policy guide for 2025 and they have made a strong, unapologetic stand for biological reality, sex-based rights, child safeguarding and parental rights. 

They take aim at the “woke narrative” and vow to reinstate common sense in law.

A woman is an adult human female. Women’s rights, which have been hard-won through decades of advocacy, must be safeguarded. However, these rights are being eroded. Women increasingly lose access to female-only spaces and opportunities, such as sports and changing rooms, and face legal repercussions for setting boundaries that preserve their dignity and safety. 

RESTORE THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF “WOMAN: Amend the SDA to define a woman as “a member of the female sex irrespective of age.” This definition is based on biology, and reinstating it ensures clarity and consistency in the law’s application. The Libertarian Party will also ensure government-issued identity documents like birth certificates and passports reflect biological sex as observed at birth (or proven via voluntary DNA testing) and cannot be altered according to a person’s chosen gender identity.

The Libertarians will protect women’s only spaces and sports.

Allow and encourage sporting bodies to establish female-only categories and exclude biological males from women’s sports. Sporting organisations may, if they choose, create separate categories for mixed or transgender individuals, but women’s sports should not be destroyed in the name of ‘inclusion’.

Their policy includes outlawing harmful and experimental medical treatments on children.

Restrict gender transition surgery and hormone treatment to adults because children are unable to provide informed consent for such life altering surgeries and treatments, and the risks to the children outweigh the parents’ rights to make these choices for them. Taxpayers will not fund these surgeries and treatments, and the government should not pressure medical professionals to perform them against their conscience.

This is an encouraging and positive statement for people looking for an alternative to the two majors.

The Nationals have a policy to re-inststate sex based protections in the Sex Discrimination Act and One Nation also have a strong policy in protecting women and children. 

Safeguarding women and children is back on the table for the 2025 Federal Election.