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When women’s rights collide with gender ideology, Liberal MPs dive for cover like a Greenie hearing the word “coal”.

The Liberal Party has a “woman problem.” Or so we’re told.

The problem, of course, is not that women have left the Liberals. It’s that the Liberals have left women.

They have left them out of their policy thinking, left them unrepresented in debates about their rights, and left them undefended in the culture war that dare not speak its name (but has lots of pronouns).

How Liberal Party Can Reconnect with Women

If the Liberal Party wants to reconnect with women, they could start with a simple, brave act: define one.

Yes, say it out loud.

“A woman is an adult human female.”

You’d think this would be a fairly low bar for a political movement founded on clarity, conviction, and common sense.

But while the Liberal Party ties itself in knots over whether or not to implement quotas for female candidates, they struggle to actually define what a female is.

I should point out that mainstream Australians aren’t confused about what a woman is. They are, however, very confused about why their political representatives are too frightened to say it out loud.

During the last election campaign, whenever the topic of women’s rights collided with gender ideology – as it inevitably does – Liberal MPs dived for cover like a Greenie hearing the word “coal.”

They mumbled about “not getting into culture wars,” as though protecting women’s sport, safety, and dignity were some obscure boutique issue.

Deves and Deeming: Real Liberal Party Women

And any Liberal women who have dared to take up the issue have been disowned by their own party.

Remember Katherine Deves?

The Liberal Party recruited her to run at the 2019 election and then put her on mute when she spoke up about the absurdity of allowing biological males in girls’ sport.

Instead of defending her, a conga line of Liberal MPs stumbled over themselves to denounce her like she’d turned up at Mardi Gras dressed as reality.

Deves was left to twist in the political wind.

What about Moira Deeming? A young, articulate, conservative woman with the temerity to believe that women’s spaces should be reserved for women.

She was, for a brief moment, the kind of voice the Liberals claim they want: female, values-driven, not afraid of a fight.

And how did the party respond?

They smeared her, isolated her, and eventually expelled her – while pretending they were defending “decency” from “extremism.”

This was not just political cowardice. It was moral failure dressed up as strategy.

The Liberal Party’s big-brain tacticians seemed to think that if they ignored the gender debate, it would go away. That’s like hiding under your doona during a house fire and hoping the flames respect your neutrality.

You could almost hear the strategists…

“We’d love to support you, Katherine and Moira, but, you see, the ABC might run a nasty headline and Twitter might get upset.”

And we can’t have that. Not in a party that once produced Robert Menzies but now takes moral cues from TikTok.

Silence Isn’t Neutral, It’s Surrender

Imagine being so politically timid that you’ll surrender the definition of womanhood rather than risk offending someone with blue hair and a sociology degree.

That’s not leadership. That’s cultural Stockholm Syndrome.

The Liberals, in their infinite focus-grouped wisdom, have mistaken silence for strategy. But silence isn’t neutral. In this debate, silence is surrender – and voters notice.

When you run away from women’s rights, you don’t just lose women. You lose men, too – the ones who still think their daughters deserve fairness, and their wives deserve safe change rooms, and their mothers shouldn’t need to apologise for having a uterus.

Instead of fighting for these voters, the Liberals have been trying to win over people who were never going to vote for them anyway. They think they’re being clever. But when you try to please the Left by going halfway woke, you don’t win their respect – you just lose your own soul. And seats.

The truth is, the Liberal Party won’t win women back by chasing approval from the ABC or by implementing quotas for a group of people they are too afraid to define.

Conservatives will win back the female vote by being the only party brave enough to defend the reality most Australians still believe in – that women are women, men are men, and if you need a glossary to tell the difference, you probably shouldn’t be in Parliament.

If the Liberal Party keeps punishing truth-tellers and placating the pronoun police, it won’t just have a women problem. It’ll have a relevance problem. And unlike gender, that’s not something you can self-identify your way out of.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.

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