Australian Parliament Speech Quotes Sal Grover on Trans Rights and Women's Spaces

me, perhaps he will listen to Sal Grover, who kindly provided some of her own words

for me to share.

In a free society, people can believe whatever they want.

If you want to believe men can be women or you're a man who wants to call himself a woman,

that is your business.

What you cannot do in a free society is force anyone else to accept it.

What is at stake here is the ability to lawfully acknowledge reality.

If you care so much about trans rights, you can work out a way to get them without destroying

the category of women in law, female spaces, sports services, the entire reality of lesbianism

and punishing citizens for acknowledging reality.

The fact that you haven't even tried makes it appear that destroying the rights of women

is the goal.

Any politician who will look an Australian in the eye and tell them that a man can be

a woman is admitting that they will lie about anything and everything because the most obvious

lie has already been told.

If no one in this room can acknowledge reality and fix an obvious problem, you're either

malicious or incompetent.

The days of dismissing this issue are over.

This is not a culture war.

It's reality.

With that, Deputy Speaker, I commend the bill to the House.