Gender Identity Law and Basic Freedoms

Title: Gender Identity Law and Basic Freedoms
Creator: Foster, Neil
Relation: Current Issues in Law and Religion p. 155-182
Relation: https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/CURRENT-ISSUES-IN-LAW-AND-RELIGION--Edited-by-Keith-Thompson_p_422.html
Publisher: Connor Court Publishing
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2020
Description: Many Australian laws are designed to protect freedoms recognised as part of our common law and Western heritage- freedom from physical attack, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion. In recent years our society has also recognised the need to provide freedom against unjust discrimination. While there is widespread support for such laws aimed at decisions made on irrelevant grounds based on race, sex, age and disability, there is more controversy over laws which forbid discrimination, and “vilification”, based on gender identity: a person’s internal conviction that they do not in reality belong to the sex in which they were born. This paper addresses the nature of such laws and the complexities that arise when these laws may clash with the legal protection of other freedoms.
Subject: heritage-freedom; freedom of speech; freedom of religion; discrimination
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1435463
Identifier: uon:39728
Identifier: ISBN:9781922449450
Language: eng