Family First has renewed its call for the position of Sex Discrimination Commissioner — and the Australian Human Rights Commission along with its state-based equivalents — to be abolished following extraordinary comments by Commissioner Dr Anna Cody during Senate Estimates this week.
Dr Cody, who is paid more than $400,000 a year plus superannuation, told Liberal Senator Claire Chandler in Senate Estimates this week she did not "understand the term biological man" and that a male paedophile in a Victorian women's prison was a woman.
When asked if biological men could be women, Dr Cody replied:
"I think we have different languages that perhaps you're using than I would use … I don't understand the term biological men."
When asked about the high-profile case of a biological man housed in a Victorian women's prison for sexually abusing his five-year-old daughter, Dr Cody said:
"So the person who I believe you're referring to is a trans woman."
Family First said such remarks reveal an alarming ideological capture at the highest levels of taxpayer-funded "human rights" bureaucracy which endanger the safety of girls and women.
How can a Sex Discrimination Commissioner not understand the biological categories that underpin the very Act she administers?
If the official charged with protecting women's rights refuses to acknowledge biological sex, then women and girls have no defender within the system.
During the same hearing, Dr Cody claimed "there are a range of people who identify as women, who are women" — including "trans women" and "non-binary people" — effectively erasing the distinction between biological women and men who identify as female.
Family First said this position is a complete departure from common sense and reflects a dangerous ideology now being pushed through education, the media and public institutions by taxpayer-funded state and federal human rights commissions.
When powerful bureaucrats spread such lies, it puts enormous pressure on parents who simply want their children raised in truth and protected from confusion.
Parents want to know their daughters have safe single sex spaces and that their sport is fair
Families should not have to battle their own government to defend basic biological reality.
The Party said Australia needs legislators with the courage to dismantle the taxpayer-funded industry which upholds radical LGBTIQA+ political ideology.
It is agendas like Dr Cody's — and the major parties' unwillingness to dismantle the taxpayer-funded institutions that enable them — that make Family First candidates essential in our Parliaments.
Family First candidates Deepa Mathew (SA), Bernie Finn and Jane Foreman (VIC), and Lyle Shelton (NSW) are standing at up-coming state elections to take the pressure off families by fighting this ideological nonsense until every Australian girl and woman is safe from it.
