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As Australian courts test legal definitions of gender, what will it mean for sex discrimination laws?

Trans advocates have welcomed one judge’s decision as heralding greater protections, but some say forcing inclusion is ‘authoritarian’

For more than a decade, it has been illegal to discriminate in Australia on the basis of gender.

Now a series of cases at the federal level are testing that principle – and raising questions about what it means to be a woman.

Law (Australia) | The Guardian

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