Tasmania has taken the first step to make gender optional on birth certificates. Proposed changes to the state’s laws were passed by  the Tasmanian parliament’s lower house on Tuesday.

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Tasmanian senator Eric Abetz is unsurprisingly not happy with the proposed changes and voiced his thoughts on Peta Credlin’s Sky News program.

“This really is a ‘Ninteen Eighty Four’ type of decision where the government is trying to create things that in fact don’t exist.” Senator Abetz said.

“The reality is this – We boys or girls, by nature, by science, by genetic make up , however you look at it. There is the binary situation.

“Yes there are a very few who don’t fit into those categories, but you don’t make laws on the basis of the very few, you make the laws on the basis of the vast majority. whist then also catering for the very few.

Senator Abetz said the new laws would take away the great sense of excitement new parents gave in announcing if they’ve had a boy or a girl.

“Let’s celebrate the diversity and the difference between men and women.” Senator Abetz said.

Senator Abetz said Sue Hickey, the speaker of the house who had sided with Labor and the Greens to pass the legislation to make putting gender on both certificates optional, had previously called for more women to be in parliament but was now removing gender from public records.

“Hello! All of a sudden sex is very important” Abetz said.

OIP Staff