Family First candidate for the NSW Legislative Council Lyle Shelton has welcomed NSW Liberal Leader Kellie Sloane’s criticism of gender-neutral breastfeeding guidelines at Parliament House that drop the words “mother” and “female,” but said she should not be surprised by the outcome of the ideology she has helped normalise.
Ms Sloane labelled the guidelines “completely nuts” and “a joke” after the terms “mother” and “female” were omitted in favour of more neutral language around lactation and parental care at Parliament House.
“I welcome Ms Sloane’s awakening to biological reality,” Mr Shelton said. “Breastfeeding is a female capacity. Mothers are female. Erasing that language is absurd and disrespectful to women.”
“But what did she expect? She and the Liberals marched in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras under the banner ‘Sloane Rangers’. Mardi Gras is not a harmless street party. It is a political parade that promotes gender-fluid ideology, the redefinition of sex, and the idea that men can be women and giving puberty blockers and surgery to children.”
Mr Shelton previously criticised Ms Sloane’s decision to participate in the 2026 parade, noting the direct line from Mardi Gras activism into classrooms, schools and now institutional language at Parliament House itself.
“You cannot march under the rainbow flag one day and act shocked the next when government follow the rainbow activists’ ideological agenda. Gender ideology is not neutral. It has consequences for women’s spaces, children’s rights and plain language.”
Family First continues to stand for the protection of women’s sex-based rights, the reality of biological sex, and the right of parents to raise their children free from gender ideology in schools and public institutions.
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