By Lyle Shelton
It should not have taken the suffering of girls and women, led by Sall Grover, to get the Liberal Party to move.
While Angus Taylor's announcement today that he will restore the definition of woman to the Sex Discrimination Act if elected is welcome, it's hard to take the Liberal Party seriously on this issue.
They have sat on the sidelines for years while people like Sall Grover, Kirralie Smith, Dr Jillian Spencer and others have taken the hits.
The Liberals voted for Julia Gillard's biology-defying amendment to the SDA in 2013.
Then under Malcom Turnbull, they made things worse by facilitating the redefinition of marriage, something Turnbull cites as his greatest achievement as PM.
Nothing has turbocharged the march of gender fluid ideology through our schools and on to the child gender clinics more than the momentum activists gained from the redefinition of marriage.
Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton both squibbed fixing the SDA, Dutton ducking for cover even as the UK High Court and the US President restored common sense in those countries.
Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg has previously posted on social media his support for the biological males who demand access to girls and women's spaces.
Is there a greater misogynist in the Parliament or is he just a useful idiot for the Governor General's political lobby group Equality Australia?
Tim Wilson is an advocate for commercial surrogacy so two men can erase the mothers of children they acquire.
You can't make this stuff up but for the Liberal party, the enemy isn't at the gates, it's around Angus Taylor's shadow cabinet table.
Taylor leads a party full of "moderates" (a misnomer if ever there was one) who think a woman can have a penis or that a man who has his cut off can be a woman.
Taylor's statement committing to restoring the biological definition of woman and man contains the following problematic reasoning:
"Every protection they (biological men who think they are women) have remains. We are not removing a single protection from anyone."
No one, including me, wants to make life difficult for any fellow Australian, including those who identify as transgender.
However, the radical LGBTQA+ political lobbyists who forced Sall Grover to the Federal Court will not accept anything less than what the full bench ruled yesterday.
They see yesterday's verdict as "protection" and to return to biological definitions of male and female, as opposed to their ideological definitions, is in their eyes to remove protections.
Equality Australia will fight Taylor on this. Will he be up to it? The Liberal party's history over the last 10 years has been to fold at the flutter of the rainbow flag.
Does Tayor's pledge to keep "every protection" mean a bloke can still rock up and get a new birth certificate by saying he is female?
Where does Taylor say biological men identifying as women should go to the toilet?
Because there is only one place Equality Australia believes they should go to and that is the girls'.
It's good that Taylor has shown the courage to do what no Liberal leader in the past 10 years has had the courage to do.
But until the false claims about equality of the LGBTQA+ political lobby are dealt with, this will not be a settled issue.
It also must be observed that if Pauline Hanson, whose party is beating the Liberals in the polls, had not been out with a response repudiating yesterday's judgement, Taylor may well have remained mute.
Again, Hanson has led, the Liberals have followed.
The biological definition of woman and man can't be properly restored in law until the natural definition of marriage is restored.
The Sex Discrimination Act and the Marriage Act are a package deal. Faulty definitions in either result in injustice to women, girls and children.
Faulty definitions in law will always crush freedom of speech, association and religion.
The Liberals' flirtation with redefining marriage and their failure to fix the SDA despite nine years in Government mean they have a credibility gap.
It's great the Liberals have finally worked out what a woman is. But until they also commit to fixing the definition of marriage, they cannot be taken seriously.
