Victorian Liberal leader Brad Battin\u2019s support yesterday for biological men to identify as women should ring alarm bells for every woman, girl and parent of daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Family First Upper House candidates Bernie Finn and Jane Foreman today called on the Victorian Liberals to take a principled stand and commit to repealing dangerous self-ID laws which are putting women and girls at risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their call follows Opposition Leader Brad Battin\u2019s announcement that a Coalition government would stop biological men convicted of sex offences from being housed in women\u2019s prisons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cThis is a good first start but it doesn\u2019t go to the heart of the issue of gender self-identification which is putting girls and women at risk everywhere,\u201d Mr Finn said. \u201cMr Battin is right to say that putting a convicted paedophile like the biological male Hilary Maloney in a women\u2019s prison is unacceptable. \u201cBut the problem goes far deeper. The real issue is that under Victoria\u2019s radical self-ID laws, any male who declares himself a woman must be treated as one \u2014 including being housed with vulnerable female prisoners. This is a recipe for disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Maloney, born male, sexually abused his five-year-old daughter at the behest of an American paedophile. Despite this appalling crime, he is now incarcerated in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre for women, after declaring a female identity and given a very lenient sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women\u2019s groups have pleaded for his removal, but Premier Jacinta Allan has ignored them. Shockingly, Judge Nola Karapanagiotidis reduced Maloney\u2019s \u201cmoral culpability\u201d because of his gender transition, handing down a minimum term of just 2\u00bd years for crimes carrying penalties of up to 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cThis is a travesty of justice and an indictment of Victoria\u2019s gender ideology laws,\u201d Ms Foreman said. \u201cMr Battin said \u2018every person has a choice to identify or be who they want\u2019. That may sound compassionate, but when men are given access to women\u2019s prisons, change rooms and sports, it is women and girls who pay the price. Identity is not the issue \u2014 biological reality is.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Family First is urging Victorians to send a message to both Labor and Liberal at the coming election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cFamily First will fight to restore truth and common sense,\u201d Mr Finn said. \u201cAll biological men must be kept out of women\u2019s prisons and other spaces where girls and women require privacy. We will also push to repeal dangerous self-ID laws which erase women\u2019s rights in every sphere of life. \u201cUntil the Liberals and Labor can work out what a woman is, don\u2019t vote for them. \u201cOn election day, vote 1 Family First to protect women, girls, and biological reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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