Luke Grant speaks with Tasmanian Senator Claire Chandler about her private members bill designed to save women’s sport receiving the backing of the Prime Minister.

The Liberal Senator Chandler introduced her “save women’s sports” bill to Parliament earlier this month during a heated debate about whether religious schools should retain the right to discriminate against transgender students on the basis of their faith.

The senator said the purpose of the bill was to clarify that offering sports for athletes born biologically female was legal under the Sex Discrimination Act.

Senator Chandler says, “Women’s sport exists to provide separate competition for females, in acknowledgement that males have numerous physical advantages over females in the sporting arena,” – “when the bill comes to a vote, Parliamentarians will have a simple question to answer: Do you agree that women and girls have the right to play single-sex sport?”

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