On August 24, 2023 Alex Greenwich, independent gay MP for the inner-city electorate of Sydney, introduced his private member’s bill to erase women’s sex-based rights in New South Wales.

As commonly understood, no longer will a woman be a person of the female biological sex, and no longer will a man be a person of the male biological sex. Greenwich wants to encode in law the absurd untruth that there are more than two sexes and people can ‘change’ their sex. Under the protective rainbow cloak of ‘LGBTQ+ rights’ and the radical left mantra of ‘Diversity, Inclusion, Equality’ – man, woman, and biological sex as is commonly understood is now untethered from reality and redefined to a person’s subjective perception of themselves.

Elsewhere in Australia, Births, Deaths, and Marriages statutes have been amended to allow a person over the age of 16 to attend the registry with nothing more than a minimal fee and a statutory declaration signed by someone who has known them for at least 12 months, to legally alter their sex marker on their birth certificate to the sex that they are not. They can do this every 12 months in some jurisdictions. A parent who does not consent to their child doing this can be circumvented by an application the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

Under such laws, any male, with the barest minimum of gatekeeping, may be able to be treated ‘as a woman’ for all intents and purposes under the law – even arguably (and absurdly) extending to protections for breastfeeding and pregnancy.

There are already men and boys claiming womanhood intruding into formally female-only spaces – sports, change rooms, online support groups for female-specific medical issues such as menopause or breastfeeding, prison cells, dormitories, and assuming awards, scholarships, and speaking on women’s panels. And no longer will there be single-sex schools under Greenwich’s legislation.

Women no longer have the right to say no to men under threat of allegations of discrimination or vilification, and thanks to politicians such as Shannon Fentiman in QLD and now Alex Greenwich in NSW, the removal of women’s sex-based rights are being further codified into law.

The concepts of ‘men’ and ‘women’ and ‘biological sex’ are being erased in every jurisdiction in Australian law in favour of an idea about identity that benefits vanishingly few people. Upending our understanding of biological sex and redefining the most basic conceptual experience of human existence – whether one is male or female – is being done without the mandate of the people.

Australia had a plebiscite on same-sex marriages, so why not one for redefining ‘sex’, ‘man’, and ‘woman’? Do our legislatures honestly believe that biological sex is a self-perception or a declaration, rather than an objective observation based on a person’s immutable male or female physiology? Metro-dwelling rainbow activists in Greenwich’s electorate may think it is, but the vast majority of ordinary Australians living ordinary lives in the suburbs, rural, and regional areas surely do not.

Greenwich spearheaded the 2019 abortion reform act that removed abortion from the criminal code of New South Wales. Women and females were not even mentioned once in the legislation, instead referred to as ‘pregnant people’ as if it is not only adult human females who can get pregnant, and that the last person convicted under the old laws was not, of course, a woman. Someone needs to ask Greenwich what he thinks a woman is… He seems to know what one is when he refers to decriminalising commercial surrogacy.

And now we have women’s sport in the ascendancy – women’s soccer in Australia has never been more popular with the success of the Matildas at the women’s FIFA World Cup. An entire generation of young Australian girls are now dreaming of donning the green and gold and playing for Australia.

Australian sporting women have the right to exclude men and boys from the female competition, however in practice, this is not what happens. Football New South Wales and Football Australia allow a person to play on the team that aligns with a gender identity – and women and girls are self-excluding, even being injured by these much larger, faster, stronger, and more aggressive males.

There is no need for a male to undergo sex reassignment surgery, opposite sex hormones, change identification documents, have proof of ‘living as a woman’ (whatever that means) for any period of time or a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. No, if a bloke wants to play on a women’s team for any reason at all – couldn’t cut it in the male competition, aged out, autogynephiliac, enjoys transgressing women’s boundaries, to validate his ‘female identity’ or even just to have a laugh – all he has to do is tick the box to register to play in the female competition.

Kirralie Smith, founder and spokeswoman for Binary organisation, is currently fighting two AVOs and two discrimination complaints for organising a campaign to lobby against Football NSW’s inclusion policy allowing men and boys to play in the female competition and for publicly discussing the male players participating in women’s teams in NSW.

In New South Wales, sport protection laws for females can exclude a transgender person from the sporting competition of the sex with which they identity – this has not been tested in law. They are the strongest legal protections anywhere in Australia for a dedicated female-only sporting category, but Greenwich wants to dilute this right and make it harder for girls and women to have a dedicated female-only competition.

Sporting categories based on gender identity are already happening in almost all sports in Australia, thanks to the Australian Human Rights Commission, Sport Australia, and the AIDS Council of News South Wales. An incursion into existing laws removes the few legal protections that could have been relied on if there was a sportswoman courageous enough to face the wrath of the radical left to bring a complaint.

Sex self-ID is just one part of the suite of sweeping legislation that Greenwich has introduced, along with fortification of hate speech, discrimination, and vilification laws. Articles such as this one, where a writer refuses to bend the knee to the lie that men can be women and points out the harms of allowing men to intrude into women’s spaces and sports, could potentially be captured. Should Greenwich be successful, there will likely be more disobedient women, meaning the Ricky Gervais old-fashioned kind – the ones with wombs, subjected to criminal and civil sanctions for stating ordinary biological facts.