I, as a woman, stand here with a voice to speak directly about this violation of our sisters with a voice that many of them around the world and in New Zealand do not have. I can speak about not only the mental damage but also the physical. It's not nice to hear, but it's far, far worse to experience: the recurrent urinary and vaginal infections, the chronic pain, the infertility, the haemorrhaging, the epidermoid cysts, the difficult labour, and the abnormalities in sexual function. These terrible inflictions are why we are here to amend and close those loopholes in the Act.