Family First Victorian Upper House candidate Jane Foreman today re-affirmed the party's clear commitment to parents: Family First parliamentarians will fight to ensure every school in Victoria retains dedicated boys' and girls' toilets.
Ms Foreman said the controversy engulfing Camberwell Primary School, where administrators attempted to replace all boys' and girls' toilets for grades 2 to 4 with "all-gender" facilities, showed exactly why firm action is now essential.
"Parents at Camberwell were blindsided. Their daughters were stripped of privacy, dignity and safety — and the Education Department brushed them off," Ms Foreman said.
"Girls should never be forced to share intimate spaces with boys. It is astonishing that parents have had to fight their own school for three years just to preserve the most basic safeguards for their children."
Ms Foreman said the Camberwell situation is not isolated, pointing to similar disputes in Clifton Springs and across Victoria.
"This is what happens when gender ideology is allowed to run ahead of common sense. Family First has been crystal clear: schools must respect biological sex, protect children's privacy, and stop forcing radical gender policies onto families."
She also noted that the Victorian Liberal Party cannot be relied upon to hold the line on these issues.
"Victorians remember clearly that the Liberals backed Labor's extreme conversion therapy laws, which jail parents who try and stop their children from being chemically castrated at an LGBTIQA+ child gender clinic," Ms Foreman said.
"Whenever the pressure comes on, the Liberals fold. Their record on gender issues is chequered at best and parents know it."
"Family First is the only party willing to say clearly and without apology: girls deserve girls' toilets, boys deserve boys' toilets, and parents deserve honesty — not activism disguised as policy.
"Whether it is bestiality classes for year nine girls at Renmark High in South Australia or gender-neutral toilets for primary schools children in Camberwell Victoria, "LGBTIQA+ inclusivity" has gone too far."
Ms Foreman said a simple legislative guarantee is now needed to end the confusion and stop schools from removing single-sex facilities behind closed doors.
"We will introduce laws to ensure every Victorian school maintains dedicated male and female toilets — no exceptions, no loopholes, no ideological experiments on young children."
