Women Will Speak in Victoria

April 28, 2025

Women rally for sex-based rights in Melbourne

A group of women and their supporters gathered on the steps of the Victorian state parliament over the weekend to rally for women’s sex-based rights. Speakers shared their experiences and reasons why they require sex based protections in law. 

Women in the workplace, in sporting associations, in education and health settings require sex-based spaces and services to protect their dignity, safety and fairness. Yet the Victorian government is hell-bent on criminalising opposition to males who wish they were female, granting them more rights than women.

Events like Women Will Speak allow women to come together to share their very personal and moving stories. More than 100 police were required to protect the women who simply gathered to speak. They actually did their job this time and kept the violent mob separate from the women, allowing them to have their rally and leave without being set upon or infiltrated by the mob.

 

 

Predictably, the large mob of violent males and their supporters did everything they could to intimidate, harass and threaten the women. They were violent with the police and they did everything they could to try and silence the women. They were not successful in silencing the women but their actions prove why women’s sex-based rights, services, spaces and services are required.

Pro-trans protesters moved through the streets from Parliament House, where they played drums and chanted at the Women Will Speak event on the steps outside Victoria’s parliament earlier in the day. About 50 people attended the Women Will Speak event, which drew about 440 protesters, according to Victoria Police.

“Around 40 people then conducted a march across the CBD, blocking intersections with wooden pallets and swarming local retailers,” police said in a statement.

Major intersections, including the corner of Collins and Swanston streets, were blocked while demonstrators chanted anti-police sentiment and pro-trans slogans.

Shouts of “quit your job” and “defund the police” could be heard as dozens of police formed lines to try to control the group’s movements.

Police deployed pepper spray at the crowd, some protesters were detained, and another fell to the ground, appearing injured, as police tried to corral the throng.