Claire Chandler: Last News

As reported last month by Star Observer, Senator Chandler has long been a staunch opponent to trans inclusion in sport.

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By Josh PallasPride Month has become a celebration for the queer community. But it should always be deeply enmeshed with the ongoing struggle for queer liberation.

A day before the elections all three major national parties have promised the LGBTQI community equality and freedom from discrimination – but not to the same degree. National LGBTQI advocacy organisation Equality Australia on Friday released its scorecard for Labor, Liberal and Greens, ahead of the federal elections on Saturday May 21. “Every person in Australia deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, and to work, study and access services without fear of discrimination,” said Anna Brown, CEO of Equality Australia. Image: Equality AustraliaOne of the major issues this year for the community was Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Religious Discrimination Bill. The Bill was indefinitely shelved after Labor, Independents and five Liberal MPs voted for amendments to protect gay and trans students. Morrison has promised to bring back the unamended Religious Discrimination Bill if his government is re-elected.

Attacks on the LGBTQI community could translate into less votes for political parties. A new poll suggests Liberal candidates could face a defeat in NSW seats of Wentworth and Parramatta over Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s refusal to act against anti-LGBTQI statements made by his “captain’s pick” candidate Katherine Deves. Polling conducted in the seats of Parramatta and Wentworth by Redbridge Group for national LGBTQI advocacy group Equality Australia have revealed that debates critical of the community “costs at least twice as many votes as it secures”.Much of recent federal election discussions have veered to LGBTQI issues, after Morrison’s “captain’s pick” candidate for the seat of Warringah Katherine Deves was found to have made statements against the LGBTQI community in now-deleted posts on .

Trigger Warning: This story discusses transphobic comments, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.Deves, co-founder of the Save Women’s Sport group that aims to stop trans women from competing in female sports, is a Liberal candidate for the crucial seat of Warringah, which is currently held by Independent Zali Steggall.News.com.au reported that in social media posts Deves had described trans kids as “surgically mutilated and sterilised” and in another post had said she was “triggered” by the LGBTQI Rainbow Pride flag.In one of the posts, Deves shared a photo of a trans teenager, who had their breasts removed.

Pauline Hanson has begun to gather her troops in the lead up to next year’s Federal Election. Hanson recently announced that One Nation will be running for the Tasmanian Senate via newly endorsed party member and serial political hopeful, Steve Mav.Hanson said she was “pleased to announce Steve Mav as my number one senate lead candidate in Tasmania for the upcoming federal election.”“We are of the same value, we believe in the same objectives, we have the same passion for Australia,” Hanson added.It is of little surprise that Mav shares many of the questionable views also held by Hanson’s One Nation Party.

In Robert’s motion, it was noted that “broad scale genuine inclusion cannot be achieved through distortions of biological and relational descriptors”  and that “an individual’s right to choose their descriptors and pronouns for personal use must not dehumanise the human race and undermine gender”.Roberts in March concluded his speech to the Senate by asking “Breast milk or chest milk? Father or non-birthing parent? Mother or gestational parent? My motion has the effect of about preventing this language, and now your proposing use of this language?”Roberts, however, is not alone in his launching of a damaging and hateful petitions.

Claire Chandler Liberal senator for Tasmania has this week denounced recently launched inclusion policies adopted by Australia’s leading sporting codes saying that she believes they ignore evidence about transgender women.“Inclusion in sport is important and that’s why we have men’s sport for males, women’s sport for females, junior sport for children and a range of mixed and social sport options. Removing female-only sport as a standalone category is not inclusive, it is insulting and unfair,” a statement on Chandlers website read.