The Educational Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020, introduced into NSW Parliament by One Nation MLC Mark Latham, was the worst legislative attack on LGBTI rights in Australia this century.

The following posts explain the serious threat posed by this legislation. Even though the Bill was rejected-in-principle by the NSW Government in its March 2022 response to the Committee Inquiry Report into the Bill (chaired by Latham himself!), it remains a threat with Latham likely to be elected again in March 2023, and potentially holding the balance of power in the NSW Legislative Council for the next four years (or longer).

I Stand With Trans Kids, and Against Mark Latham

NSW MPs can be champions for trans and gender diverse kids. Or bullies.

NSW Liberal Parliamentary Secretary for Education Supports Bill to Erase Trans Kids

Friends, Jagged Little Pill and Transphobia in the NSW Legislative Council

Surprise!* Mark Latham’s Inquiry is just as unbalanced and transphobic as his Bill

If you thought the Religious Discrimination Bill was bad, wait til you hear about Mark Latham’s anti-trans kids Bill

Letter to Dominic Perrottet re Mark Latham’s anti-trans kids Bill

Not going backwards in not the same thing as going forward

This page will continue to be updated as appropriate as the fight against this awful attack on trans and nonbinary kids goes on.