Since I have no further comment, other than to thank you for this carefully devised act, I vote in favour.

Now as for the 'good doctors,' if the term is used loosely, assertions and even the assertions of the senator in question that women are somehow inferior to men I would remind the Senator of the Chair's warning to not be provocative and would bring in a recent study conducted by the Imperial Medical Association(IMA): there were no discernable differences between the sexes in terms of ability in mathematics. The study examining the test scores of nearly 350 million college age students looked at the results of their Imperial College Entrance Exam(ICEE), and found astounding results showing the women were no less capable than men in terms of cognitive ability.

The IMA, went on to explain that this was likely due to the quality of education available to students rather than simple matters of gender. The paper went on to theorize that the perception of women being weaker in mathematics typically comes from gender stereotypes assigned during the early years of education namely around the Second grade.

But, you may say mathematics is only a single issue one of many and you would be right. Mathematics isn’t the only thing to consider when determining capabilities. Alright based on that how about other recent studies conducted by no less than the Imperial Center Institute for Scientific Research(ICISIR) found: The volume of the superior temporal cortex, expressed as a proportion of total cerebral volume, was significantly larger in females compared with males (17.8% increase; P = .04). This was accounted for by 1 section of the superior temporal cortex, the planum temporale, which was 29.8% larger in females (P = .04). In addition, the cortical volume fraction of the Broca area in females was 20.4% larger than in males (P = .05).
What does this mean? Well according the studies own conclusions: “Our results suggest that females have proportionally larger Wernicke and Broca language-associated regions compared with males. These anatomical differences may correlate with superior language skills previously demonstrated in females.”

And just in case that doesn’t make things perfectly clear to you, Senator, ‘Doctor,’ let me add one last study recently published in the Journal of Genetics by Dr. Greg House. In the study of the gene which allows the perception of the color red women once again bested men because the gene is carried on the X chromosome and if you managed to pay any attention in biology class women have two of them while men have an X and a Y chromosome.

Okay but maybe my point is not clear yet? That women are NOT inferior to men and should not be discriminated against as your bill would provide. I can continue on all day but there are other points that will have to be discussed first. You will find that the galaxy has moved on from such assertions of chauvinism that women are inferior to men and even reputable scientific journals will dispute the fact. As much as your quack of a doctor would like to try and say otherwise far more credible organizations have already written on this matter and have proven his opinions to be what they truly are: Archaic and not helpful moving forward into the future.

To your other points, do we really wish to alienate the other sentient beings in this galaxy and discount their voice? This body was formed for the purpose of allowing the voices of the people be heard. Of all people not just one particular race. Without the Interspecies Advisory Committee, which we agreed needed to be removed so that this body could absorb its responsibilities as a place where beings of all races could congregate to have our voices heard we should not neglect that or to arbitrarily say that someone’s voice can’t be heard because they are different from us. Instead we should celebrate differences and come together here to work as a united galaxy for the betterment of the empire and the galaxy for ourselves and our posterity.

So in case it isn't obvious to a man like yourself senator, I vote against this piece of legislation clearly meant to divide this great empire.

Senators, while I know revisions have been made to this bill. I cannot in good conscious vote in favor of it. I have taken a bit of time before speaking to truly think about the impacts of a legislative act such as this. I can see no good coming from it. While I am glad that some sense was spoken with in this chamber pertaining to the rights of women, I still feel like a great injustice has been done to them. Females are not inferior to men and if we are speaking our minds here, I feel as if females are actually superior. We have the capacity to truly care for other beings. Not only that, females have an uncanny way of knowing when things are about to happen, another sense that our male counterparts lack. But I digress, as for the issue of alien beings and their rights. Who are we to take away rights from any being? Many non-humans are more intelligent than any of us. They put us to shame. They offer their own special skills, knowledge and talents.

All of you were fighting this act so fervently and then you all caved in. You changed your votes. Why?

Fundamentally, this act is ethnically corrupt. I cannot vote in favor of this. Garos IV casts a NOT in favor of this bill.

I'm confident that these sentience tests will have the same results as those that would be concluded by COMPNOR academics.

*He spoke implying to the chair that COMPNOR as the examining body could assure this was the case.*

I won't compromise with Naboo and allow clanking droids and semi sentient beasts to be counted as equal to that of humans on Naboo. Why should humans be ruled by an alienocracy on Naboo? You think that a gunman semi-moron is your equal? A vending machine? A power droid?

Of course not, voting rights must be uniform across the Empire to prevent inequalities.