On the 8th of April 2015 a student at the University of Tasmania resigned from the position of Woman's officer. (http://tuu.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/TUU-Media-Release-J-Ritchie2.pdf) ; He did so after a Change.org petition collected more than 1000 signatures calling for his resignation, and expressed disgust that a male had won office. A female candidate lost to him in the election.



It remains a concern that women hold fewer roles on the student council compared to their male peers, as they do in politics generally. But to say a person can't do a job purely because of their sex is wrong.



Within two days of the media picking up the story, the TUU has altered the rules so that a male will never even be eligible to run for the position in future. This is not the path to equality.



The primary argument people use to support what has happened, is that he could not represent women because he is not a woman. That this wasn't about sex, it was about representation.



This petition is a call for all sitting TUU (the student union) members to immediately resign if the do not share the trait of the group they represent.



If the disability representative does not have a disability they should resign.

If the indigenous representative is not indigenous they should resign.

If the sports representative does not play sport they should resign.

If the arts school representative is not an artist they should resign.

If the LGBT representative is heterosexual they should resign.