Thursday 4 August 2022 04:52 AM Launceston lesbian Jess Hoyle may take female-only drag show case to High Court  trends now

Thursday 4 August 2022 04:52 AM Launceston lesbian Jess Hoyle may take female-only drag show case to High Court  trends now
Thursday 4 August 2022 04:52 AM Launceston lesbian Jess Hoyle may take female-only drag show case to High Court  trends now

Thursday 4 August 2022 04:52 AM Launceston lesbian Jess Hoyle may take female-only drag show case to High Court  trends now

A lesbian who wants to ban anyone with 'penises' from attending her drag events has vowed to take her fight against the anti-discrimination watchdog to the High Court.

Jess Hoyle wants to hold lesbian-only drag nights in her Tasmanian hometown of Launceston, but would refuse to welcome transgender women or men. 

The state's anti-discrimination commissioner stepped in when Ms Hoyle applied for an exemption, saying there was a 'significant risk' she would be breaking the law. 

Ms Hoyle, 34, said it was important for lesbian women to have their own spaces and for gay men to do the same.

'There were queer events but they were mixed and a lot of lesbians didn't like going there because it was a breeding ground for heterosexual men,' she told Daily Mail Australia.   

'Because of self-ID laws we have to take in biological males who think they could be something else and it's really not that fair. It wasn't safe for same-sex attracted women.

'Lesbians have lost all their spaces.' 

Jess Hoyle wants to hold lesbian-only drag nights in her Tasmanian hometown of Launceston, but would refuse to welcome transgender women or men

Jess Hoyle wants to hold lesbian-only drag nights in her Tasmanian hometown of Launceston, but would refuse to welcome transgender women or men 

In denying the exemption Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Sarah Bolt argued it would be 'offensive, humiliating, intimidating, insulting' to ask people to prove they were biologically female. 

Ms Bolt believed Ms Hoyle's application went further than other state exemptions by 'requiring people to provide intimate information about their body to gain access to the proposed events'. 

Ms Hoyle blasted the commissioner's arguments. 

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