Source document: https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1697633079931.pdf (Australia)
Subject: Protection of Religious Freedoms.

Repeal protections of boys self- identifying as girls from using girls facilities at school.

Dear Committee Members, I am a Christian grandmother who is concerned about religious freedoms for future generations.
I am concerned that the repeal of protections for religious schools and their employees would put these school professionals at risk of discrimination complaints and impact their right to practice their profession or employment if they were to refuse boys who identify as girls, access to girls facilities.

It would also allow boys who self-identify as girls, with no minimum threshold for identifying as a girl, the right to access firls school toilets, change rooms, showers and camp accommodation.
This may put female students at risk from sexual harassment or loss of their privacy.

I therefore plead that you allow faith based schools and religious group the true freedom to teach according to their own code of practice.

Faith based schools should have the right to uphold their religious practices.

Parents who do not wish to accept these religious practices and all that it entails, have the right and freedom to find other schools that would meet their child’s needs.

I respectfully submit this.


Yvonne Houston Sex Discrimination Amendment (Removing Discrimination Against Students) Bill 2018Submission 792