Australia has been under the political and legal delusion that humans can change sex for too long

Governments and the judiciary have falsely claimed the word woman can include men. It is ludicrous and a narrative rejected by the majority of Australians.

Queensland’s Crisafulli government has now taken the right step to declare the correct definition of woman – as an adult human female.

The Liberal National Party’s Minister for Women, Fiona Simpson, quietly rolled out the amended definition in response to a question on notice after dodging questions on the issue at budget estimates in August.

“A woman is an adult female human being,” Simpson said, a month and a day after receiving the question “Will the Minister define ‘women’ as it is used in the Department of Women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Multiculturalism?”.

Under the previous Labor government, woman was an inclusive term “to mean all people who identify as a woman or girl”.

How absurd that anyone ever fell for that! How can you identify as something if it is not defined? How can you protect or promote or even have a women’s ministry if you can’t define the word woman?

Katter’s Australian Party state leader, Robbie Katter, asked whether “the Minister and department consider transgender people as women?”.

Simpson did not answer directly but stated a transgender person is “someone whose gender identity is opposite to the sex the person was born with, male or female”.

It is not clear how many Queenslanders rewrote historical facts under the previous Labor government’s birth certificate policy.

The definition is necessary to protect women’s sex based rights and to safeguard children.

Man made laws do not trump the laws of nature. No human can change sex, and importantly in 2025, no man can be a woman.

Defining “woman” is essential to protect women’s spaces, services and sport. Males cannot identify into women’s bathrooms sport, prisons or rape crisis centres if it is clear in law that it is physiology and biology that defines a woman, not immeasurable feelings or out-dated stereotypes.

Defining “woman” also means children are protected from harmful drugs like puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. If it is clearly defined that human sex is immutable and determined at conception we can get back to supporting gender distressed children instead of creating life long medicalised consumers with a myriad of health issues.

How the statement by the Queensland MP about women will play out is yet to be seen, but it is an excellent first step.