Family First’s Jane Foreman, the party’s candidate for the South‑Eastern Metropolitan Region, has signed the Women’s Pledge Australia, publicly committing to defend sex‑based protections for women and girls, fairness in women’s sport and evidence‑based public policy ahead of November’s Victorian election.
Ms Foreman says she signed the pledge, run by the non‑partisan advocacy group Women Speak Australia, because Victorian women and girls deserve elected representatives willing to put their position on the record: that biological sex is real, that female‑only spaces and sport are worth protecting, and that children should be shielded from ideology, not experimented on.
“Women and girls have fought for single‑sex spaces, safety and fair sport for generations, and it should not be controversial in 2026 to say those things are worth protecting,” said Mrs Foreman. “I signed this pledge because I want Victorian women to know exactly where I stand, in writing, before they vote.”
The Women’s Pledge commits signatories to “restoring biological definitions in law, defending female‑only spaces and services (including sport), and ensuring public policy remains evidence‑based rather than ideological.” Signatories also oppose policies that “compel mixed‑sex spaces or the medicalisation of minors.”
“As a registered nurse, and as the mother of three adopted children and grandmother of three, I have spent my working life caring for people and families, and I have seen what happens when policy is driven by ideology instead of evidence,” said Mrs Foreman. “Parents, not bureaucrats or activists, should have the primary role in decisions affecting their own children’s wellbeing. That is why I will always oppose the medicalisation of minors.”
Family First says Ms Foreman’s pledge builds on the party’s existing Victorian platform, which already calls for scrapping the Respectful Relationships program, repealing the Conversion and Suppression law provisions that criminalise parents, doctors and pastors for helping a gender‑confused child, and abolishing the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, which Family First says has repeatedly pushed gender ideology into schools, workplaces and parenting.
“Every candidate asking for Victorians’ votes in November should be willing to sign this pledge and say plainly where they stand on women’s rights, women’s sport and parents’ rights,” said Mrs Foreman. “Family First will not be silent on this, and neither should anyone else seeking office.”
This is exactly why Victoria needs Family First in the Legislative Council after November: to be a voice in Parliament that will defend women’s spaces, women’s sport and parents’ rights, not trade them away for political convenience.
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