North Shore MP Felicity Wilson crossed the floor to support independent MP Alex Greenwich’s omnibus equality bill.
NSW Liberal MP Felicity Wilson labelled attacks on an equality bill which allows transgender people to update their birth certificates without undergoing gender-affirming surgery as “fearmongering” in an implied criticism of her own party.
“This bill will not harm any person in NSW. In fact, as you’ve heard many times, this bill will affect very few people across NSW, but for those that it does affect, it will respond to and seek to rectify great harms that they experience,” she said. The government agreed to the changes after two caucus meetings and a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday at which some MPs raised concerns about changes to commercial surrogacy rules. Minns referred to those concerns, raised in caucus chiefly by upper house MP Stephen Lawrence, during a speech in parliament.“Regardless of how we approach the issue, it is hardly the child’s fault.
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