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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Caitlin Cassidy

Australian lesbian group’s fight to bar trans women to return to tribunal after federal court win

A rainbow flag flies over Victoria’s Parliament House
The historic case has been at the centre of a heated debate regarding the rights of transgender people and their freedom to associate in public. Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

A Victorian lesbian group has won a legal appeal in its case to exclude transgender women from its public events after the federal court set aside a decision by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC).

The decision on Wednesday afternoon means the case will return to the administrative review tribunal for another determination. While the Lesbian Action Group called the finding a “definite win”, Equality Australia said the judge “simply identified legal errors in the tribunal’s reasoning”.

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