Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

I do withdraw that, but I do want to say that this fixation on other people's genitals—this fixation about which toilet people go into to do the things that every single human being in this chamber does every day—is a perversion. It is a fixation on genitals and a fixation on other people's reproductive organs that are at the foundation of so much that one Nation does and says.

The second question I have for One Nation senators—which I will ask through you, of course, Acting Deputy President—is: what has Pauline Hanson's One Nation got against transgender people, and why do they want to provide a platform for trans folk in this country to be harmed, to be hurt? These are people who just want to get on with their lives and be who they are, people who want to live their day-to-day lives free of harm, free of discrimination, like we all do as we go about our day-to-day lives, people who simply want to embrace who they are as human beings. Why—I ask through you, Acting Deputy President—does Pauline Hanson's One Nation want to throw trans people under a bus in the name of their incessant culture wars in this country purely for political purpose?

I want to say to trans people in this country—and I know I say this on behalf of all of my colleagues in the Australian Greens—we have your back. We are your allies. We will fight to defend your right to be who you are. We acknowledge that as humans you deserve love and support for who you are, and we commit ourselves as a party and as a party room to being your allies and to giving you that love and support. We will always be there for you to defend your rights and to aggressively push back against people like Pauline Hanson's One Nation and anyone else—and I know there are others in this place, the transphobic elements—who seek to harm you, who seek to hurt you, who seek to demonise you, who seek to exploit you and who seek to allow you to be deliberately harmed because they think it suits their political agenda. That is a despicable thing that you are doing to trans people, and we will always be here for trans folks because trans rights are human rights.