Prime Minister Weighs In On Save Women’s Sport Bill
On February 22, 2022, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison verbally showed his support for Senator Claire Chandler’s Save Women’s Sport Bill at the tail end of a press conference in Triabunna, Tasmania at 10:14am local time.
In video of the interview, the Prime Minister can be seen turning to walk away when a seemingly last-second question was asked.
“One more question…Senator Claire Chandler has been praised by your Liberal colleagues for her advocacy around women’s sport…where do you stand on the Save Women’s Sport Bill?” - journalist
The PM turns around to answer the question saying,
“I support it, as Claire knows. I think it’s a terrific Bill and I’ve given her great encouragement…Claire is a champion for women’s sport, and I think she’s been right to raise these issues in the way that she has. Well done, Claire.”
The Sex Discrimination and Other Legislation Amendment (Save Women’s Sport) Bill 2022 was introduced to the Australian Parliament on the 10th of February by Senator Claire Chandler of the Liberal Party. The Bill’s purpose is, in part, to “promote participation in women’s sport, including by supporting the provision of single-sex sport for women and girls” and “to support and promote single-sex sport for women.”
The reasoning for the Bill is due to the sharp increase in sporting organisations, committees and clubs favouring policies that allow biological males to compete against biological females in sport. This is occurring on community and professional levels, even in Olympic sport and many people see this as an encroachment into female sporting categories by “gender identity” ideology.
There is already some mainstream coverage about the Prime Minister’s words in support of the Bill and the coverage is coming across as being bias, misleading and/or untruthful and is clearly in opposition to the Bill.
First, The Guardian and an article from Sarah Martin, Chief political correspondent:
Scott Morrison backs bill that allows exclusion of transgender people from single-sex sports
Let’s get two things clear, once and for all.
Sport is exclusive at times and that is normal and acceptable. Most types of sport exclude based on skill level and some exclude based on tolerance to temperature (does your child want to play in summer/winter). Some sports categories exclude based on weight and most sports exclude based on biological sex. This is all very normal and common.
A boy or a man being told they cannot compete in a female sporting category is not exclusion from sport. It is exclusion from female sporting categories and competitions, which is perfectly normal, acceptable and imperative. These boys and men are welcome to go and compete against their own sex in male sporting competitions, categories and teams.
In the article, Charlie Burton, from Equality Tasmania, is quoted saying the bill would strip transgender people of their “right to live as we are, casting us into an unequal, uncertain and unsafe status in the eyes of the law.”
I ask, how?
This Bill is about protecting the category of female sport and the biological females that play sport because women and girls are unsafe and being treated as unequal in the eyes of the law.
Now, for an article in The Sydney Morning Herald by Matthew Knott:
Morrison backs bill excluding female trans athletes from women’s sport
Ok, let’s get one more thing straight. “Female” is a biological category; one of which males (men and boys) cannot ever actually be. Biological sex in humans is binary and immutable. Females that have body dysphoria or “identify as trans” are not excluded from female sporting categories, because they are females. Biological men that have body dysphoria or “identify as females” are not excluded from male sporting categories.
In the SMH article, Anna Brown, chief executive of the LGBTQ+ rights group Equality Australia, said Senator Chandler’s bill was “not just unnecessary, it’s cruel and divisive”.
No. Having a single-sex sporting category for females and one for males is not “unnecessary”. It is imperative and it is progressive.
No. This Bill is not divisive, but forcing society to go along with a destructive agenda is.
No. This Bill is not cruel. What is cruel is letting men bash women and letting men surpass women in their own sporting categories and calling it sport.
- Critical Thinker
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