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HEALTH chief Brendan Murphy has been blasted for his 78- word definition of a woman, with experts claiming he has bought into “radical gender ideology”.
Dr Murphy raised eyebrows back in April when he was unable to define the word “woman” when asked by Liberal Senator Alex Antic at a Senate estimates hearing.
Dr Murphy – the nation’s former chief medical officer before being appointed Secretary of the Department of Health – promised to provide an answer later. It’s now arrived, when he submitted: “The frameworks adopted to define a person’s gender include chromosomal makeup, the gender assigned at birth, and the gender with which a person identifies.
“The Department of Health does not adopt a single definition....