Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, there is no doubt in my mind that, if the Senate was to agree with the proposal put forward by Senator Hanson, the effect of that would be to provide a platform for hatred and bigotry, and that would absolutely, without any question, result in significant harm to people who actually deserve our support and our love and our care and deserve to have us join them in a celebration of who they are as humans.

I haven't reflected at all on Senator Hanson, but I will come to Senator Hanson's arguments in a minute, and I'm glad she's here to listen to them. Before I do that, I want to say a couple of things quite clearly. Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Trans rights are human rights. Trans people need our love, our acceptance and our support, and they need us to celebrate with them who they are as human beings. I want to talk about my amazing stepson, Jasper Lees, who is a young trans man. I want to allow Senator Hanson and Senator Roberts, who for some reason is sitting there smirking at me right now, to share a bit of Jasper's journey—