Submission on the NSW Equality Bill 2023
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4. This Bill seeks to embed controversial gender ideology throughout the New South Wales statute book that will only frustrate the proper operation of the law and significantly
undermine human rights in NSW.
5. Most alarmingly, the Bill will expose children to controversial gender ideology, removing the caring influence of parents on the decisions of their children, and will destroy the religious character of faith-based institutions in NSW.
6. The oft-purported medical basis for gender ideology has been brought into serious question by the recently released final report of the Cass Review. It would be the height of
irresponsibility to increase the ease of access by children and young people to gender-affirming interventions at the very moment when the best available evidence suggests that such access should be curtailed.2 The Bill should therefore be withdrawn in order to protect children and young persons from harmful practices that have no grounding in evidence.
