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Australia & Oceania·Human Rights·Democracy

Australian court sends trans women exclusion case back to tribunal after lesbian group wins appeal

Wednesday, 15 April 2026, 10:10 · 1 min read

An Australian federal court has set aside a tribunal ruling that had denied the Lesbian Action Group (LAG), a Victorian organisation, permission to exclude transgender and bisexual women from its public events. Justice Mark Moshinsky found the tribunal had made legal errors in its reasoning, including a failure to consider whether discrimination could be "justified" if it produced an overall positive outcome, and ordered the case to return to the Administrative Review Tribunal for a fresh determination. Advocacy group Equality Australia cautioned that the ruling does not endorse the exclusion of trans women or resolve the broader legal questions around transgender rights in Australia, which remain hotly contested in the courts.

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The GuardianAustralian lesbian group’s fight to bar trans women to return to tribunal after federal court win ↗︎
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