Party leader Senator Pauline Hanson congratulated Women Speak Tasmania for asking elected representatives to pledge to protect rights that generations of Australian women had fought for.

“Since the days before Federation generations of brave Australian women have fought for equality, for the right to vote, for the right to privacy and safety, for their own sports and for recognition,” Senator Hanson said.

“This war was largely won until a new front was opened by radical gender ideology in recent years, threatening almost everything Australian women have achieved over decades.

“Men identifying as women are now invading women’s private spaces, women’s organisations and women’s sports, undermining equality and threatening their very safety.

“Legally, this has been enabled by the Gillard Labor government’s changes to the SDA, which supplanted biological definitions of women and men with gender identity. I don’t know if this was done with the best of intentions, but the result is the systematic erosion of women’s rights in our courts and in public.

“Women who have dared to challenge this ideology and stand up for their hard-won rights have been attacked, threatened, demonised and assaulted by hateful activists who insist a few drugs and some surgery – or even simple identification – means that biological men are entitled to these same hard-won rights.

“Australian women have been abandoned. Silenced. They’ve been betrayed by politicians who pretend they champion women’s rights but actively work to undermine them.

“One Nation will always fight for these basic rights for Australian women, and I’m proud to have signed the pledge to protect them.”

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