Bill
Sex Discrimination and Other Legislation Amendment (Save Women’s Sport) Bill 2022
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25.
- Sponsor
- Claire Chandler
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-02-10
- second reading — 2022-02-10
- other — 2022-07-25
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2022-02-10.
The bill would make it clear that running single-sex sport is not illegal under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.
It would amend the Act to allow sporting organisations to exclude people of one sex from activities intended for the other sex, based on biological sex rather than gender identity.
The bill would start the day after it receives royal assent.
- Amends section 42 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 to clarify that excluding persons of one sex from a sporting activity for the opposite sex is not unlawful.
- Re-inserts sex-based definitions of 'man' and 'woman' into the Act.
- Adds a new object for the Australian Sports Commission to support single-sex sport for women and girls.
- Deletes paragraphs 42(2)(d) and (e) of the Act, removing the ability to prescribe exemptions and the age restriction for children under 12.
- Inserts a note that sex in the Act refers to biological sex, not gender identity.
- Amends the objects of the Act to include the provision of single-sex sports for women.
Sporting organisations, administrators, and participants in single-sex sporting activities.
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