Labor gender registration policy: party rules out radical plan
Federal MP Ed Husic has flatly denied Labor plans to eliminate gender from birth certificates, drivers licences and passports after a stinging Twitter attack from Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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Federal MP Ed Husic has flatly denied Labor plans to eliminate gender from birth certificates, drivers licences and passports after a stinging Twitter attack from Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
“We’ve ruled that out,” Mr Husic said.
“There are no plans to do that at this point.”
Labor’s draft national policy pondered adopting the Yogyakarta principles, a human rights legal application that “ends the registration of the sex and gender of the person” on official identity documents.
The western Sydney MP and shadow human services minister told the St George Shire Standard/Daily Telegraph that was no longer the case.
Mr Morrison said Labor needed to “get real” in two strongly worded tweets
“This is the problem with Labor, obsessed with nonsense like removing gender from birth certificates rather than lower electricity prices, reducing tax for hardworking families and small businesses,” Mr Morrison tweeted.
“A Liberal National Government will never remove gender from birth certificates, licences and passports - who are Labor kidding?”
The Yogyakarta principles also forbid women’s sporting bodies from excluding participants based on gender.
Mr Husic said he would leave that policy to sporting administrators.
“The last thing people want to see is politicians getting involved in sports administration,” Mr Husic said.
“I’ve said it before about ball tampering - let the sporting administrators deal with it.”
Mr Husic was in Revesby in Sydney’s southwest with Banks Labor candidate Chris Gambian, who will take on newly-appointed immigration minister and sitting MP David Coleman in the marginal seat at the next election.
“The Coalition got into government to tear down anything Labor did and then they had nothing planned to help the country,” Mr Husic said.
“We’re getting out there with our ideas - we’ve spelled out exactly what we’re going to do, and we’ve been upfront.”
Mr Gambian used the media call to demand Mr Coleman clarify his support for Medicare.