Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

(1) That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent this resolution having effect.

(2) That the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Acknowledging Biological Reality) Bill 2024 be restored to the Notice Paper and consideration of the bill resume at the first reading stage.

(3) That the bill be referred to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 24 November 2025.

I think this is a debate that we need to have. It is concerning many Australians—what is happening in our country. You hear all the time, as to what is happening in our educational system, that people are actually being told they can choose whether they want to be a boy or a girl. Let's be logical about it and let's talk common sense for a change, instead of the load of rubbish that's going around.

Biological reality is: male and female—the essential basis for procreation. Let me tell you, procreation is about having children. I've never known of a man to deliver a baby yet. I don't think they can. You're not equipped for it, mate, okay? You don't have the equipment to be able to have a baby.

There are these people out there who think that one minute in their mind they can say, 'Oh no, I'm really a biological male, but now I want to be a female,' and then we have to include them in all this about stillbirths. They think that they should be consulted because they're transgender. They're moving from being a biological male to a female, so they've got to have an opinion about stillbirth. Oh, give me a break, will you!

People born male cannot bear children. It's determined by the chromosomes and it's determined by DNA. It doesn't matter how much you might think you want to be a female, you cannot and never will be a female. It doesn't matter how many bits and pieces you have cut off. It doesn't matter what you add—how many sex hormones, how many puberty blockers—you will never ever be a female. That's it.

The whole basis of this whole thing is that the science is clear and it doesn't care about activists' fantasies about fluidity or identity. Science is science. You're quite happy to talk about science when it comes to climate change, but you're not quite happy to talk about science when it comes to gender fluidity.

What is also happening is that we're risking the fairness in women's sports. You have these men that are saying, 'Oh, look, I'm a female today. I want to join and get into female sports.' I watched a video of rollerskaters, and one was clearly a male, and he's in these women's sport and he's nudging them and he's pushing them around. Biological males have the strength; they have the muscles; they actually are built differently to the females. Why are we allowing this to happen? As Janet Albrechtsen has said, 'How can a person know about another person's sex or gender identity if the law plots an ambiguous scale?' And that's what's happened, and that's where we see the problem now with Tickle v Giggle at the moment. This is just ridiculous, this 'gender related identity' and also this highly subjective definition of gender identity, which is:

Gender identity means the gender-related identity, appearance or mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of a person.

That's whether by way of medical intervention or not, with or without regard to the person's designated sex at birth. We are allowing people to change their birth certificates and you can actually choose whether you want to be a male or female. You are causing so many psychological problems with the kids coming through that they do not know. In our educational system now you are saying you cannot use 'him' or 'her'; it has to be 'them' and 'they'. That is what you are doing through this government department as well. That's what you are pushing. You are causing so much psychological damage with what you do with people. If you don't know if you are male or female then you have a real problem and I think you should book into a psychologist and see what the problem is.

For people here in this parliament to allow this to happen is a real shame. We had a 1,000 per cent increase in children being treated at public gender clinics between 2014 and 2021. You sacked Jillian Spencer, who is a psychologist. You want to sack people who speak out about this. You don't want me speaking on the floor of parliament and telling people. You're saying, 'Let's just cover it up and not have anyone speak about this.' This has to be debated. It has to be discussed. You have to have common sense, because you're destroying kids out there and their little minds. You're playing with them. They are either male or female, and that's the way it should be.