Tasmanian Greens MPs

Amendment

New Clauses A, B and C brought up by Ms Haddad and read the First time as follows:

Clause A: Section 3 amended (Interpretation)

Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

(a) Insert:

gender expression means any personal physical expression, appearance (whether by way of medical intervention or not), speech, mannerisms, behavioural patterns, names and personal references that manifest or express gender or gender identity

(b) Amend the definition of gender identity by; 

(i)              inserting the words “including gender expression” after “an individual”; and

(ii)                            omitting the words “includes transsexualism and transgenderism” and substituting “may include being transgender or transsexual”.

(c) Omit the definition of intersex

(d) Insert:

sex characteristics means a person’s physical, hormonal or genetic features relating to sex, including genitalia and other sexual and reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, genes, hormones, and secondary sex characteristics;

(e) In the definition of transgender after (b) add:

or

(c) identifies themselves as a member of another gender, and lives or seeks to live as a member of that gender;

(f) Repeal the definitions of;

transgenderism; and

transsexualism.

Clause B: Section 16 amended (Discrimination on ground of attribute)

Section 16 of the Principal Act (Anti-Discrimination Act 1998) is amended as follows:

by inserting in subsection (eb) “variations of sex characteristics” after “intersex”

Clause C: Section 19 amended (Inciting hatred)

Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

Leaving out the full stop at the end of subsection (d) and substituting

; or

(e) the gender identity or intersex variations of sex characteristics of the person or any member of the group.

Question put – That the new Clauses A, B and C be read the Second time and made part of the Bill to follow Clause 8;