A shocking Melbourne court case shows why biological males must be banned from women's spaces and why the gender-fluid ideology being pushed in schools must end, according to Family First.
Bao Phuc Cao, a 23-year-old international student at the University of Melbourne, walked free from court despite secretly filming women in public toilets and possessing more than 100 videos of victims on his phone.
Police were told Cao entered the women's toilets because he was "not sure about my gender."
Following a public outcry, Cao now faces deportation but that does not deal with the problem of children continuing to be indoctrinated into gender fluid ideology which is giving a get out of jail free card to biological males.
Family First's National Director and NSW lead Legislative Council candidate Lyle Shelton said this disturbing case illustrates the dangerous consequences of normalising the idea that gender is fluid.
"When a man can enter a women's toilet and tell police he is 'not sure about his gender', it shows just how far our society has drifted from common sense," the Mr Shelton said.
"This case is about far more than one offender. It highlights the cultural confusion being created by politicians like NSW Opposition Leader Kellie Sloan and LGBTQA+ political activists like Equality Australia who march in the Mardi Gras to assert that gender is fluid."
The Melbourne Magistrates Court heard Cao had previously been sentenced for similar offending and that the victim in the Docklands incident now struggles to use public restrooms due to anxiety caused by the crime.
Mr Shelton said the case demonstrates why the party has long called for biological males to be excluded from women's spaces including toilets, change rooms, prisons and sporting competitions.
"Women and girls deserve privacy and safety. That cannot exist if men are allowed to enter female spaces simply by asserting they are a woman," Mr Shelton said.
Family First also warned that the ideological influence of activist organisations continues to drive the erosion of these protections.
"Labor and Liberal politicians continue to tolerate and promote the teaching of gender fluid ideology to children in schools. That ideology tells boys they might really be girls and that biological reality doesn't matter."
"Until both major parties repudiate radical lobby groups such as Equality Australia, which campaign relentlessly for gender ideology to be embedded in law and education, incidents like this will continue."
Family First reaffirmed its policy to restore legal protections for women and girls and to end the indoctrination of children with gender identity ideology in schools.
"Our daughters deserve privacy and safety," Mr Shelton said.
"Family First will fight to restore common sense — because women's spaces must be for women."
