The state government has stripped back its definition of a woman to biological indicators, a question on notice tabled in parliament has revealed.

On Monday, Minister for Women Fiona Simpson responded to a question from Katter’s Australian Party state leader Robbie Katter asking her to outline the state’s definition for women, and whether transgender people were included in it.

Simpson said a transgender individual was someone whose gender identity was the opposite of their birth gender – which she said would be male or female.

Minister for Women Fiona Simpson said the state defined a woman as “an adult female human being”. Credit: Matt Dennien

A woman, Simpson said, “is an adult female human being”.

The former state government rolled out a wider definition in its women and girls’

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