The government wants another fight on LGBT rights – and I'm sick with panic | Sally Rugg

The right of LGBTIQ kids to simply exist at school is one of this government’s favourite political conversations

It’s been hours since the long-overdue Ruddock report into religious freedom was exposed as recommending religious schools should be able to discriminate against and exclude LGBTIQ students and teachers, and I’m sick with panic.

My fear is not that the government will move to make these changes to federal anti-discrimination laws, or that the states with existing protections for students and teachers will amend their laws to match the LGBTIQ discrimination already permitted in New South Wales.

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